World PvP!
So, I happened to be in the ghostlands after a bear run through ZA. I didn't win the roll for the bear, but you can't really begrudge a healer his mount, you know? Especially when he rolled 100 for it, and then two-healered through Malacrass and Zul'jin. Anyway, I step outside, and since I won the roll for Zul'jin's blood, I turned that in for my badges. I don't have a whole lot to spend 'em on these days, but watching Budd get whirled around and lit on fire is satisfying anyway. While all this is going on, I start to notice some chat in general. Specifically, it seems that some alliance 70s are corpse-camping some 20s. Now, it's an RP server, and I don't know what they were doing flagged in the first place, but there are still occasional new players, and sometimes some of the mechanics are a little arcane to them. And just in general, stuff happens.
I'm bad at PvP. I don't particularly like it, I'm not good at it, and although my PvE gear is pretty good, my PvP gear doesn't so much exist. I've got the trinket to break fears on Archimonde, a vengeful hat because there's nothing better until the Cursed Vision off of Illidan, and that's it.
My boyfriend, on the other hand. Well. He's been playing much longer than I have, and he leveled his first character to 60 on a PvP server. And I remembered something he said to me once: "the people that camp lowbies are almost always very, very bad at WoW." So I said to him "hey, love? Wanna kill some allies that're corpse-camping lowbies in the ghostlands?" He wasn't super in to it, but he eventually logged on, ported to SMC, and flew to Tranquilien. I of course had been sitting calmly on my mount in tranquilien, my shoulders doing the baleful glaring-around for me, and watching the alliance mockery emotes scroll by in the chat window. Whatever emote makes people call you a chicken, /spit, /laugh, etc.
I also ask in guild if anyone else wants to get in on it, because there's 6 to 8 allies (the rogues are a little harder to count, they keep disappearing) and two of us. A few people say yes (including a frost mage with just under 500 resilience on her gear), and we're waiting for them to get there. Except my bf gets bored, and (with me still mounted), starts it off by holy shocking one of 'em. I scramble, dismount by putting a hunter's mark on one, pop the beast within and rapid fire, and a few seconds later they're all quite dead.
It's a little embarrassing to admit, but I was actually trembling from adrenaline and stuff, even though it had been really really easy. Like, I was spamming my steady/auto-shot macro, something you really oughtn't to be able to do in PvP. So anyway, it was exciting, and after the trembling wore off it was a really cool feeling, to absolutely massacre a bunch of lowbie-campers two on six (at minimum!). And then of course just as all the corpse-campers were starting to res as far away as possible, the four or five people from our guild show up and were disappointed. I made my apologies and logged over to my baby priest. So close to my second 70!
I guess the lesson is that if you're ever tempted to get in on some world PvP by defending some lowbies, you totally should, because no matter how bad you are, the losers who pick on 20s are worse.
I'm bad at PvP. I don't particularly like it, I'm not good at it, and although my PvE gear is pretty good, my PvP gear doesn't so much exist. I've got the trinket to break fears on Archimonde, a vengeful hat because there's nothing better until the Cursed Vision off of Illidan, and that's it.
My boyfriend, on the other hand. Well. He's been playing much longer than I have, and he leveled his first character to 60 on a PvP server. And I remembered something he said to me once: "the people that camp lowbies are almost always very, very bad at WoW." So I said to him "hey, love? Wanna kill some allies that're corpse-camping lowbies in the ghostlands?" He wasn't super in to it, but he eventually logged on, ported to SMC, and flew to Tranquilien. I of course had been sitting calmly on my mount in tranquilien, my shoulders doing the baleful glaring-around for me, and watching the alliance mockery emotes scroll by in the chat window. Whatever emote makes people call you a chicken, /spit, /laugh, etc.
I also ask in guild if anyone else wants to get in on it, because there's 6 to 8 allies (the rogues are a little harder to count, they keep disappearing) and two of us. A few people say yes (including a frost mage with just under 500 resilience on her gear), and we're waiting for them to get there. Except my bf gets bored, and (with me still mounted), starts it off by holy shocking one of 'em. I scramble, dismount by putting a hunter's mark on one, pop the beast within and rapid fire, and a few seconds later they're all quite dead.
It's a little embarrassing to admit, but I was actually trembling from adrenaline and stuff, even though it had been really really easy. Like, I was spamming my steady/auto-shot macro, something you really oughtn't to be able to do in PvP. So anyway, it was exciting, and after the trembling wore off it was a really cool feeling, to absolutely massacre a bunch of lowbie-campers two on six (at minimum!). And then of course just as all the corpse-campers were starting to res as far away as possible, the four or five people from our guild show up and were disappointed. I made my apologies and logged over to my baby priest. So close to my second 70!
I guess the lesson is that if you're ever tempted to get in on some world PvP by defending some lowbies, you totally should, because no matter how bad you are, the losers who pick on 20s are worse.