Maybe it’s not the Horde. Maybe it’s not the Alliance.
It’s bored people.
When I logged in last night, there was some major ganking going on in Hillsbrad. I landed at the Tarren Mill flight point and immediately got stunned and backstabbed. It was a short little “fight.” The evil-doer was a “??” level druid. There were two of them at first, then it got up to about 8 Alliance.
In the afternoon, I was making my way toward the Hillsbrad Farms to give the Elixir of Pain to a dog, had been fighting a few farmers for a few minutes to gain access to the dog, and along came an elf priest who Shadow Word: Pain’d me, and whacked me with her staff and kept running. Thanks for the 4 minute ghost run for nothing.
I’ve never done any such thing as a toon on either side. Then again, when I’m bored, I go play the AH, not make other people’s experience miserable. As in real life, the World of Warcraft world would be a better place if people would just abide by the golden rule. I mean, seriously, how hard is it to think, “if this happened to me, I’d be pissed?”
Is it just that being remote, representative bits of information allows people to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t? I think so. I think most of the people who do are doing that kind of stuff are the same ones soiling their pants if someone gets out of the car that they just honked at, not the ones getting out of their car because they were honked at. I don’t believe insecurity exists nearly as much in MMORPGs, with the exception of large guilds where there are obviously more talented people with higher ranks, gear, etc. When it comes to just wandering around the countryside in Tier .5 gear, sure, why not kill the little 25 trying to finish his quest? It will be fun to see how fast he dies.
Anyway, I need to get back to work. ๐
You are lucky she ran along after the first gank. Most of the time, they will be so bored that they stay and gank you a couple more times. I once had a guy wait 6 hours for me to rez (i took a break after he killed me the 10th time)… When I logged back in, he was still there waiting…
Its something that will always happen, and there is nothing you can do about it. I find it better to just brush it off, and find some fun in it.
This is what drove me away from the PvP realms. Needless ganking. However I do understand the arguement ‘it is a PvP realm so deal with it’. Typically dealing with it invloves getting higher level buddies protect you, spam for help from the area (kinda whimpy if not handled correctly), or leave the area and come back later. There is a new mmorpg comming out that has global PvP (no factions) and allows players to put ‘bounties’ on other players heads who may have pissed them off. I like that approach. I can think of nothing better than a bored lvl 70 bounty hunting !
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Isn’t that how Ultima is? Factionless and every man for himself? I remember walking around one day and all of a sudden a guy with a red name appeared and chased me across 15 maps. I’m pretty sure it had some kind of karma or similar rating on how ‘good’ or ‘evil’ you were and if you were up for getting killed.
Josh, I guess I could level up my druid when that happens. I just wanted to kill like-level mobs and I couldn’t think of where to find them in Kalimdor.
The Thunderheads and Hyenas of Southern Barrens are 23s and the stuff I saw in Thousand Needles were 27s. 27s are no problem, unless 2 of them start hacking away at me. My bubble disappears quickly at that point.
Ultima Online is certainly one of the games for “hardcore” players. Definitely not a game for casuals lol.
I bought Brian Kopp’s guide a few months back and I must say it’s awesome. I never read Joana’s guide though, but I’ve seen many good reviews on it.
On a side note, I’m thinking of getting the gold guide on http://www.thewarcraftguide.com
Anyone read it before? Mind sharing ? =D