Archive for the 'PvP' Category
Remember that first time you stepped outside of city boundaries, onto a contestant part of the region? Let us indulge in reminiscence the first time you saw that ill-mannered, red named, corpse-camping Allie/Horde. Your heart pounded through your chest, your fingers stiff as yesterday’s toast, and your lips quivered as you mutter to yourself “What do I do?” You just stand there, both staring at each other, planning each other’s next move. Then it happened, it was over before you even realized it had started. Whether you won or lost, you cherished that moment to be your first PvP encounter. It’s sad to see that things are different now, and that it was a thing of the past.
Nowadays, PvP has changed for the worse. Whether you’re Alliance or Horde, you’re always going to find those people that won’t want to do crud for a single match of fun PvP. “Eh how many are there?” or “Are they camping you?” and my all time favorite “Can’t right now, questing.” What happened to the good ‘ole Alliance vs. Horde, no matter the numbers. Fighting and defending your stronghold for fun, honor, and respect. Not because there’s a reward item in the end. I know every time I walk around Shattrath City, I get plenty of waves from the opposing faction who has battled with me. That feeling is way better than and reward or silly loot items. Nonetheless, PvP in general has been outplayed to a new extreme. There are still plenty of people out there that think like I do, but I just keep running into the wrong crowd.
How about your first experience with PvP? Did you think it was just as fun as everyone had mentioned, or was it just a method of driving you mad and smashing your fists into your keyboard while screaming “Hulk smash!” Did you stand tall in victory when you took on your challenger, or did you have no choice but to back off?
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I’m writing this as i’m watching the corpse of a fool who tried to camp me.
As you can guess he’s having trouble staying alive.
Why Do you Grief?! Why would you [tag]camp[/tag] him?!
I usually don’t even attack the other faction while I’m questing. I do this just so I can get my quests done or grinding done and I leave the area instead of having a camp fest.
Unfortunately you have the idiots who like to try and camp you. So they /wave, or /greet and you start to grind thinking they understand that we wont attack each other.
Then when you pull a few mobs they come up and gank you. Usually I end up killing them anyways, but this guy got lucky and killed me because I wasn’t paying attention.
So then you see one of the /spit /clap /spit /clap /spit /clap macro’s. This just further proves that he is a complete retard.
And then I come back to him camping me. Oh joy =)
As you can see, the idiot doesn’t understand the concept of the game. Simply because even though he was camping me, I was able to kill him.
So usually what I do to people like this is camp them for a few deaths, then I will go back to questing while I keep an eye on him, and probably kill him 1-2 more times that way. Then either he will run away for ever or he will finally start being nice and letting me finish my quest.
Either way I will have plenty of fun killing him for the next few minutes and then finishing up my quests here in the badlands!
Oh and just in case we run into him again and I get to make some more fun of him. He’s a level 40 Dranei Shaman named “GoldForge”
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I’m not going to start a rant here about the death of world of warcraft, the death of the GM’s or the game designers, and i’m not going to bash the game mechanics itself.
We all know the game is simply amazing that’s why we are all addicted. But let’s face it.. Blizzard did a horrible job creating a pvp system. On top of that, they did a horrible job for building any system inside the game (you will see as I explain.) Before you read any farther, I want to stress this is not a rant - it’s a discussion.
My favorite part of any PvP would be outdoor hunting. That’s real pvp! I’m not saying that I don’t enjoy Battlegrounds but I still think battlegrounds are less enjoyable because it creates a fake “battle environment”.
With that being said there needs to be some type of incentive to get players out into the game and PvP. I still have fun “ganking” other players because that’s the only bit of World PvP that I actually get.
So let’s talk about why I want real PvP. Everything that we do as characters grants us items. We grind for gold or items. We Quest for gold or items. We get reputation for some items. We get honor just to get some items. Now I understand it’s a descent system for rewarding players who are active but it sucks in my opinion!
Let’s take a close look. I was in a pvp guild grinding out my ranks to High Warlord, which is back when it was actually hard to do. Our guild had about 8 regulars, and 2 players would switch in and out. I was 3rd in-line to hit High Warlord.
We started most of this grind in WSG because there was nothing else. I finally hit High Warlord.. and I wanted to kill myself. The grind to get those items was very tedious! It was a huge accomplishment but something I will never do again.
After I got my items.. I was so tired of PvP that I didn’t even want to try out my new weapons. You see what I mean? We do all that work for items, just to finally GET them -AFTER- we do what we want them for, for such a long time. In my opinion this makes the system broke.
Now lets compare WoW To my FAVORITE pvp game of all time: ShadowBane. Shadowbane is a game that rewarded pvp of all sorts. For one thing you could kill anyone in the game. When you killed them, you could loot their corpse. This means you would have access to the items they were holding in their bags (Not their actual armor). Very cool right? Gives players a reason to go out and hunt.
On top of this players also have the ability to build cities. With the gold you farm, you can build a city that has guards, it could be a castle, and you can also hire you’re own vendors. This brings a WHOLE new aspect into PvP. You can now wage war (or bane) the cities that you do not like. Let’s say you are out grouping, and a big group comes and ganks your’s then camps your spot. No longer do you have to log out and quit for the night because they are doing what you wanted to - you simple Bane their city!
Putting a “political” system like that into the game, gives a very fun, and unique twist to the game. Also remember, when you bane their city, you will destroy it if you win the war. That means all the gold, effort and time it took to build that city - can be ruined with one bane.
So this creates a whole new aspect to PvP. It creates allies, enemies, wars, and more fun! Unfortunately Shadowbane is an older game, with not too many players and horrible graphics/game play. But they knew how to run a pvp system.
I understand this will probably never happen in WoW because of the Lore. Don’t get me wrong.. I love the lore but it’s kinda restricting at times.
I think I’m just tired of raiding in AV, to kill a boss that will re-spawn the next time I join the game. It’s kinda unrealistic and makes the game a “grind”.
Enough of my end of the discussion… What do YOU think will change WoW’s PvP System and what are you’re views about how PvP is in WoW.
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