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No more Mrs. Nice Gal! (are you nice to opposite faction?)
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Nemo2342
Example 2: Same warrior, with my ret paladin levelling buddy. Both of us were lvl 69, in Boring Tundra, questing. Lvl 74 DK and his lvl 71 t4 geared rogue buddy start on us. And we kill them. How bad at the game do you need to be to lose to a pair of lvl 69's wearing mostly Outland gear, when you have extreme level and gear advantage?
Funny, when I was leveling up in Borean I had a similar encounter with an 80 rogue. Despite having 6 levels on me, not to mention superior gear, they were such a crappy player that I easily fought them off until they got bored and gave up. Maybe its a Burning Blade thing?
Post by
redsox1918
I've never found much fun in a gank. Sure, if I'm really #$%^ed about something I might kill the first red I see and I'll definitely fight back if attacked, but for the most part, I leave the opposite faction alone.
Which doesn't work out too well on a pvp server I might add.
Post by
11berto11
Ganking has a sort of hidden brilliance to it, if you think about it. It throw gasoline on the fire of the whole Alliance-Horde rivalry. Being ganked makes you hate the opposing faction that much more, and thus makes winning in pvp much more satisfying. Which makes it much more competitive. Honestly, if blizzard didn't like people ganking, they'd make it so you can't attack gray targets.
...that doesn't make getting ganked suck any less though XD
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Hmm...every ally 80 who sees my priest goes for an easy kill. Needless to say - I'll gladly repay. But sometimes, on soloing group quests I see opposite faction and we coordinate so we both can have the quest done. Or lately at Omen, event raid encounter, we were fighting that big dog side by side. The feeling that you help each other is much better than 'yea! i killed him! let's gank him all day long'
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the opposite faction is nothing more then the people I let live... for now.
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Novak
To put it in simplest terms: I don't gank.
If some poor sap is just minding his own business questing, and I happen to be on the opposite faction, I'll leave him be.
Now, if he's been ganking me/people in the area/guildies, or if he's messing with my questing, then yes I'll do my best to unleash hell.
I do mainly play on PVP servers, and people regularly ask me why I rolled on a PVP server if I don't like to PVP. I'm on PVP servers because my friends are there, and I don't care. I do enjoy PVPing, but I don't enjoy ganking. And there is a world of difference.
Killing some poor sap when he's at 50% hp and fighting 3 mobs and calling it PVP is like...
...Like taking Macho Man Randy Savage and having him punch out a 5-year-old and call it a wrestling match. It's nowhere near correct.
I am guilty of messing with players (e.g. Death Gripping them and then running off) as well as genuinely PVPing with them in the open (Let them finish their damn mobs, let them mana up, and THEN fight them). But ganking? It's just not my bag, baby.
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Slowhand
I don't indiscriminately kill everyone I see. That would be barbaric.
Only kill Humans, Night Elves, Gnomes, Dwarves, and Space Goats.
Post by
MrFredII
Generally I don't kill players more than a couple of level below me unless provoked. I don't consider a none surprise attack on a player who is not otherwise in combat ganking. So I don't consider it a gank attempt when someone makes their intent clear and then attacks me. As long as no camping is involved its just combat on a PvP server. When the decision whether to attack is left up to me I generally don't attack the other faction, usually I have better things to do.
Now if I see someone attacking a lower level character, or one who is out numbered or already fighting a mob I attack from the point of greatest advantage and kill him without hesitation. If it was a "drive by" gank attempt I move on, once the intended victim has finished. If they were camping the person in question, I'll often hang around and camp them "just a bit".
Exceptions to the rule:
1: You gank me to get something I'm farming when I got to it first. I will track you down and if possible kill you, but I will interfere with your farming. I will camp you as well.
2: You leave me alone while we are both questing then, since you are ready to leave, attempt to gank me when you are done. If able I will kill you then camp you for a long time. A pali tried this when my friend and I were grinding through our mid 70s in grizzly hills and we camped him for over 45 minutes. Despite his repeated attempts to escape and the fact that we ended up 1/2 way across the region from where we were questing, we stuck to him and killed him until he logged. Trying to take us while we were in combat with multiple mobs really ticked us off.
3: You have camped me or someone else in the past without provocation. I don't mind a drive by gank, its part of the play.If you camped me, my friends, or my guildies in the past you are KoS by any means.
4: Serial campers. Usually a taste of their own is enough to get the point across that camping carries unpleasant consequences. But there are always those who only want to cause grief to others. I am very intolerant of repeat campers, also referred to as griefers. I keep a list of the punks who enjoy themselves by preventing others from playing. Casual ganking and the occasional camping will not get you on this list. Showing up every night for hours with 3 or 4 of your friends to prevent anyone from doing dailies, or completing quests will. Once you make the list, if I or a guildie see you, you will be camped by myself and as many guildies as are required to cover your corpse and the nearest graveyard. My guild members and I keep track of when one character vanishes and another higher character rolls in to camp. If you switch to an alt that is known to us, we'll track you down and camp you on that character too. Funny thing about griefers, most of them are not well liked even by their own guilds. When its 20 to 3 and they cry for help, most of the time no one comes running. After a sufficient lesson, you'll get a whisper from someone, we have accounts with toons on both sides, explaining what happened and how to avoid a repeat.
Back in classic, my original guild ended up in a guild war over such matters. The tenacity and thoroughness with which we hunted them, including assassinating them in their capital cities, drove them to change servers. For a while after that, no one camped members of our guild.
Post by
Nemo2342
I've never found much fun in a gank. Sure, if I'm really #$%^ed about something I might kill the first red I see and I'll definitely fight back if attacked, but for the most part, I leave the opposite faction alone.
Which doesn't work out too well on a pvp server I might add.
I don't have all day to play, so I tend to look at it as a matter of efficiency. Yes, I could gank that mage who's at half health and move on, but then I have to keep looking over my shoulder in case he comes back at me (sometimes with friends). I'd rather spend my limited time doing things that help improve my character (dailies, quests, getting mats, whatever) than spending all of my time trying to deal with allies.
One thing that does intrigue me is that there seem to be "neutral" areas on the server, where despite the number of opposing players being in the area there are few cases of ganking. The one that springs immediately to mind is the area from Brunnhilde to the Sons of Hodir camp. There might be a ton of people chasing worgs/worms, but no one starts anything (unless you are in the Hibernal cave going for the oozes). Of course, the first idiot who decides to start a fight out there sets off the powderkeg, as everyone stops questing to help out their side in the brawl.
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