Why doesn't WoW have graveyard protection?

[Grinning Serpent]

It's such a simple, obvious thing and it's bizarre that it's never been in the game. Invulnerability within the bounds of the graveyard and for 5 sec after leaving it, ended early if you attack another player.

GY camping is a huge problem in Cata right now due to premades apparently having nothing better to do with their time (if you get 10 people together to play, why the fuck are you wasting time in unranked instead of ranked??) and I know it's existed about as long as WoW has been around.

So it really blows my mind that in all this time, they've never done the simple, obvious thing to just eliminate it entirely.

[Squigglyo]

Those PVP servers would be so much more tolerable if it wasnt for all that damned PVP

[Grinning Serpent]

I'm talking about BGs, not open world. GY camping is a big issue in BGs and it can be really easy to ensure that players basically can't escape. It's just rotten design.

[Huntermyth]

wow is a sick animal and instead of struggling to no avail, you should simply let it go.

[Stickiler]

Invulnerability within the bounds of the graveyard and for 5 sec after leaving it, ended early if you attack another player.

I'm not sure how this would do anything other than give you 5 seconds of life before you're inevitably gang-fucked like you would be on resurrection regardless.

[SpaceMistakes]

wow is a sick animal and instead of struggling to no avail, you should simply let it go.

Says the person still posting about WoW, on a WoW fansite.

[melzas]

You know you can move to your corpse instead of ressing at GY, right?

If you are getting camped at graveyard it's pretty much your fault. Even if you die at the spawning point, the radius at which you can res is pretty big and you can move away and spawn far enough from it to easily run away from the meat grinder.

[Grinning Serpent]

I'm not sure how this would do anything other than give you 5 seconds of life before you're inevitably gang-fucked like you would be on resurrection regardless.

5 sec beyond the bounds of the GY (which could be pretty big in some cases, like the entire fenced in area in AB home base) on a 100% mount is plenty of time to break free. They'd either have to mount up and chase or let you go. And 5 sec of total invulnerability to setup on top of the enemy players itself would be an absolutely massive advantage. Rogues and cats would pretty much be guaranteed to reach the healers untouched and without having to burn gap closers/cooldowns to do so, for example.

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You know you can move to your corpse instead of ressing at GY, right?

If you are getting camped at graveyard it's pretty much your fault. Even if you die at the spawning point, the radius at which you can res is pretty big and you can move away and spawn far enough from it to easily run away from the meat grinder.

This would work if the rez penalty didn't apply inside of BGs (which could be a different way of addressing the issue.) You also can't rez on your corpse if your body is looted.