How braindead are gankers?

[endersblade]

For some reason this thread feels 12 years old.

I don't want to know anything about how you know what a 12 year old feels like.

On a more serious note. The problem is, the unofficial PvP service is broken. And what I mean is, back in the day if some lowbie got ganked, he'd get his higher level friends out to help, and the gankers would get their friends to help, and awesome WPvP would ensue. But WoW has, for the most part, lost this camaraderie, so instead a few bad apples just run around ganking lowbies and the lowbies have no other way to deal with it other than complaining on the forums or just logging out until the gankers go away. So the gankers are knocking, but nobody's home to come out and play.

If you wanna gank people that are at least close to your level, that's PvP. If you wanna go gank people who haven't even completed a single expansion's questline yet, you're a douchecanoe. It's one sided and that means someone isn't able to fight back. That's bullying.

[Jorah]

I don't want to know anything about how you know what a 12 year old feels like.

On a more serious note. The problem is, the unofficial PvP service is broken. And what I mean is, back in the day if some lowbie got ganked, he'd get his higher level friends out to help, and the gankers would get their friends to help, and awesome WPvP would ensue. But WoW has, for the most part, lost this camaraderie, so instead a few bad apples just run around ganking lowbies and the lowbies have no other way to deal with it other than complaining on the forums or just logging out until the gankers go away. So the gankers are knocking, but nobody's home to come out and play.

If you wanna gank people that are at least close to your level, that's PvP. If you wanna go gank people who haven't even completed a single expansion's questline yet, you're a douchecanoe. It's one sided and that means someone isn't able to fight back. That's bullying.

Agreed. Stranglethorn Vale was named Vietnam warzone of Warcraft.

[Socialhealer]

nah, 6mil pyroblasts tend to hurt even high geared tanks.

pyroblast doesn't hit for anywhere near 6 million without some crazy buffs/debuffs going on.

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I assume your talking Greater Pyros? Afaik tanks can take plenty normal Pyros well i can DH and Blood and im sure there are plenty of better tank than me out there but if you do mean Greater then gl trying to cast rofl

greater pyro would still take 3 casts, and a very long time to cast.

[Sinndra]

Only wpvp rewards I can think of are the bloody coin mushan and the marks of prey hawkstrider, and the latter can only be obtained in pvp and falcosaur areas.

yah i know those are available, but they are restricted to just TI. thats not really WPvP.

WPvP is literally any zone at any time. this is what needs to be given its own currency and cosmetic rewards. the cost of those rewards need to be low, as this isnt another carrot on a stick for your main, its to promote alt play.

with the right rewards system and a few other minor limits, WPvP would flourish into something beyond spawn camping.

[Feral Druid ist Op]

That's the issue about being on a PVP realm, you sumbit yourself to everyone that spawn camps. Blizzard has repeatedly stated that it is entirely your choice to submit yourself to average player of the PvP crowd, that is why they choose not to tailor anything for the PvP crowd. The best thing you can do is not support PvP realms by moving to PvE realm. Complaining is counter productive since it was your choice to join a PvP realm in the first place.

i would gladly but the best pve server is a pvp server too.... in germany at least. > https://www.wowprogress.com/pve/eu/blackmoore

[Torrasque]

i would gladly but the best pve server is a pvp server too.... in germany at least. > https://www.wowprogress.com/pve/eu/blackmoore

Best is subjective, especially when talking about the average player that you encounter which heavily depends on your playstyle and time of play.

[Lime]

The only way you find killing a lowbie fun is if you have no idea how to actually handle yourself + are just a garbage tier player. There's no challenge it.. the challenge is rush.

And you randomly assume people are doing it for the challenge?

I run a random heroic everyday, I can promise you that's not for a challenge. I, as well as most, can list many more things that don't fall under the category of "challenge".

[McNeil]

I don't want to know anything about how you know what a 12 year old feels like.

?????

...... okay?

[Kazuchika]

Nah, you're a douchebag.

And you're a whiner.

Which is worse?

[harruin]

Starting or switching on a PVP server and afterwards COMPLAINING about PVP is like holding your balls into a cage of young and hungry kittens and complaining afterwards about being sterile. Sorry mate.

When I originally rolled on my server population mix was around 50/50, maybe slightly favoring alliance. Now it's like 99-1. Then for some reason CRZ made it so I could get ganked by alliance from other realms as well. That and with WQ's, followers, and every spell cleaving you're basically forced into WPVP now.

[cparle87]

yah i know those are available, but they are restricted to just TI. thats not really WPvP.

WPvP is literally any zone at any time. this is what needs to be given its own currency and cosmetic rewards. the cost of those rewards need to be low, as this isnt another carrot on a stick for your main, its to promote alt play.

with the right rewards system and a few other minor limits, WPvP would flourish into something beyond spawn camping.

You can get bloody coins anywhere, actually. The Fire-Watcher's Oath works anywhere. Even on a pve realm you can gank other people of any faction in the ffa pvp areas, and if you ever see a flagged member of the other faction you can pop it, flag yourself, and attack.

[Deleted]

Sure you can quote poorly written rules and try to justify doing shitty stuff, doesn't change the fact that attacking people who can't defend themselves is shitty.

they rolled on a pvp server they are supposed to be able to fight back. if you cant tough luck, dont roll a pvp server....

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Choosing a pvp server because at the beginning there were no battlegrounds at all, some friends wanted to pvp anyway. So the only choice is to play without the friends or go on a pvp server. I think noone in the world is complaining about pvp on a pvp server, but ganking on pvp servers is not pvp. More likely it is group raping in a club, not dancing and drinking, to stick to your analogy.

not silly, its still players vs players aka pvp

[Dormie]

not silly, its still players vs players aka pvp

All that means is that the term "PvP" is meaningless.

[deadman1]

they rolled on a pvp server they are supposed to be able to fight back. if you cant tough luck, dont roll a pvp server....

Again I understand pvp is pvp I'm talking about camping and lowbie ganking. Don't be intentionally obtuse, just because the rules let you be a cunt doesn't mean you should be a cunt.

1v10 fight back

level 20 vs level 110 fight back

Tell me your strategies for winning in those scenarios

[slime]

I always just assumed this was their version of running laps around SW or Dal...

[ONCHEhap]

Gankers are mostly people who are just too bad at the game to beat any other player by themselves,so they gank instead.
It makes them forget how worthless they are,kinda sad really.

Though,the best thing is when they forget that they're trying to gank a lv 110 blood DK and they get torn apart

[Deleted]

This might be the oldest rant in WoW tbh. and the solution is always the same: play on a pve server!

[laughtrey]

The act itself isn't so much the source of fun as reading the salty forum posts and whispers are. It's kinda like fishing, you cast and you cast, every one in a while you get a bite, and you get to sink your teeth into that sweet flesh of success.

[Deleted]

Play on a PvE server if you can't handle it.

[Eazy]

This is pure whine thread, threads like this one should be banned on the forums.

If you play on the PvP server - deal with the consequences. Ganking doesn't happen often, but it doesn't mean it won't happen at all.