If You Can’t Stand the Heat…
… Get out of the kitchen!
While I have another post planned to join the chorus of bloggers writing about their first Wrath experiences, I have come to a realization this weekend.
Let’s call it by its name and not beat around the bush.
I’m a carebear.
I’m a PvP wuss.
Long time readers may remember that I rerolled on a PvP server in Spring to join some friends. Leveling there at late evenings during the last 6 months of the Burning Crusade wasn’t really heavy on world PvP. I had a couple of encounters in areas where you expect them, mainly STV and Hillsbrad Foothills, and a couple of skirmishes in HFP more recently. All against the perhaps dozen alliance players in the same level range, and (I thought) pretty much all in good fun. If we decided not to ignore each other, it was the typical Rock-Scissors-Papers game with the twist that the player who started it would most likely live.
Wrath exposed me to the other side of it, though – level 72+ players camping just outside of Thrallmar on their epic flyers, in twos or threes, hellbent to deny the aspiring DKs passage. Level 78 players escorting their guildies through Howling Fjord quests and hell-bent to slow the progress of the opposing faction level 70-71s around.
I realized, there and then, that I’m not cut for a PvP server. Oh, I do enjoy organized PvP, within the boundaries of the formalized engagements which you can find in BGs, arenas but also outdoors encounters like Halaa. I like more or less balanced engagements where I feel I have at least a shot at at, even if it means being outnumbered.
I however derive no pleasure in ganking lowbies myself, so there’s no sense of compensation in the nature of “do unto others…” from the gankfest. I’m getting pissed off when I get 2-shotted while trying to read a quest text, and that’s been happening far too often for my taste since the 13th.
Steptoe having apparently left on another of his semestrial smoke breaks, I’m again in an almost people-devoid guild.
Which has me reviewing my options.
Anyone has any suggestions for a casual, late night, EU-English carebear horde player? Ideally the server should not suffer from login queues, have reasonable BG queue lines up to 1am server time and horde should win BGs from time to time.
Open to any ideas.
Try Ghostlands, Doomhammer or DragonMaw??
This is why I quit wow. Pretty much PvP. I too am a carebear, and theres nothing wrong with that.
I don’t like that on a Pvp server to reduce your suffering you are reliant on either q questing group to protect you, or a bigger badder player – My hunter will probably stay at 42 on my pvp server, I really don’t like dying because an higher level breaths on me.