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Swap if you're on PvP. You'll not regret it.
I also had to go the the Eastern part of Ashenvale, near the entrance to the Barrens and I though to myself, "this is Goddamn suicide". It wasn't too bad, but I was so darn edgy getting to and from the quest givers and locations that I didn't enjoy it one tiny bit. And, as you say, if you're paying for a game every month you shouldn't be not enjoying it.
> It wasn't too bad, but I was so darn edgy
> getting to and from the quest givers and locations that I didn't
> enjoy it one tiny bit. And, as you say, if you're paying for a game
> every month you shouldn't be not enjoying it.
The guy in Forest Song? I've tried that at least 10 times. I always give up in utter frustration...
Same amount of players, exactly the same game. And if you thrill to PvP slaughter whilst trying to solo quest in dangerous areas, simply type /pvp to enable your character. That way you can happily be ganked by groups that dont care what level you are or how far into a long, difficult quest you might be.
As Pand says, many a time I've annoyed the alliance raids on xroads by cheering and laughing. My favourite is to stand right in front of an alliance player and keep moving in front of him as he tries to line up spells/ranged attacks. You can feel the anger as alliance-man jumps about and runs off.
But my fav experience,and why I love PvE was a couple of weeks ago and it still stands as one of the best moments:
In Ratchet, just me. Fishing for oily blackmouths to make potions. The boat arrives and an assload of Alliance, all level ?? get off and start amassing. An obvious raiding party in the waiting. And there's just me, Fump The Troll to greet them.
I dance and wave, rasp and flex at the 15+ crowd who all golfclap and offer to duel me. No way, they're all lv?? to me.
I continue to point and flirt/joke as another boat arrives and another 20+ players hop off.
An enormous crowd now, and a lone troll jeering and insulting them.
I'm surrounded, they're bristling with violence and circling me yelling in Common so I can't understand.
I see a lv?? Rogue. Now my loathing of those sneaky fools means I attack them on sight.
So I do.
A lv17 Troll attacks, and enables, PvP to a lv?? Rogue.
He stands and golfclaps me for a good 2mins whilst I wail on him with a fishing pole. He kills me instantly. I return to my corpse, resurrect and promptly smack him with the fishing pole again.
The by now 35+ group of Alliance players all start cheering me and bowing as I furiously whack at the rogue making zero damage.
He stuns me and starts dancing. I start dancing too.
The Alliance all start clapping and cheering me for being dumb enough to launch an attack on a raiding party by myself with no hope of winning.
Somebody binds me with roots and they all run off to attack the crossroads, leaving me crying in Ratchet alone.
Compare that with last week's return to Dragonmaw PvP.
I start, leave Astranaar and am killed twice in 5 minutes by lv?? gangs.
Nope, PvE is the way to go if you want to quest without being massacred, but can turn PvP on if you like that sort of thing.
> 1 vs 1 PVP of a similar level is part of the game I suppose, when you
> get groups of ?? running around ganking everyone, it just becomes
> crazy.
Yep. I don't mind taking on one that's around my level but sometimes it really sucks.
Example, it's probably happened to lots of people; I was killing a beast of around my level, not too tough, but as I was attacking it I was attacked by a Horde a couple of levels lower than me. "Right, I can take this ass" I thought. I killed the beast I was fighting and started on the Horde only to be attacked by his higher level Rogue buddy who was waiting behind me. I died, then I cried because I realised was paying for this crap.
At the end of the day it is a PVP game though so you should expect the worst, if you don't want the hassle don't join the server in the first place as there are bound to be many lameo geeks to**ing over gank on someone 20 levels lower.
You'll get gamers that want to savour the world, explore and do quests, fish for an hour and immerse themselves in the experience.
And then you'll get gamers that want to reach lv60 as quickly as possible, cheat & hack to do so, and then complain it's "Boring" and "nothing to do" because they've raced through in an attempt to be the first to show off epic mounts and special armour.
People like Creepy for instance.
> At the end of the day it is a PVP game though so you should expect
> the worst, if you don't want the hassle don't join the server in the
> first place as there are bound to be many lameo geeks to**ing over
> gank on someone 20 levels lower.
Yeah, I fully agree, but with WoW being my first MMORPG, I'm uninformed of these matters. It was great before the honor patch. *Shrug* a "Carebear" server for me. :D
Another thing I have noticed which may just be me, the majority of ?? Alliance seem to leave lower level Horde alone yet pretty much every ?? Horde I have come across wants to nail everyone in sight.
> Hmm...having been brutalised by a bunch of Horde lvl ?? when I was a
> mere level 12 this weekend, I'm starting to find myself persuaded by
> this argument...
I'd recommand it, even after what I said. I'm level 14 Atm, and it really hasn't taken too long (perhaps a week)
I'm finding the time to restart is outweighting the time spend in frustration on Dragonmaw. Plus, there's the horrible feeling that the rest of the Dragonmaw game is going to degenerate, as more and more time is spent in contested areas.
For me, a restart. Two months on a dragonmaw char down the drain, but I'd rather play WoW for a year after a restart than give up in frustration 6 months down the line.