A fix for griefing and world buff meta

If I were to ever create a new “Vanilla” character again, I would do so on a PvE realm for sure. Playing on RP-PvP in Classic was very different indeed fron my fond Vanilla memories of The Venture Co. realm.
I’d transfer, but I have an established guild here who will have no trouble clearing Naxx, and than it’s smooth sailing to TBC where none of this will matter, since you bring personal consumables and fly to instances there.
I don’t mind a bit of wpvp, even extremely lopsided one (as if there’s any other kind), since that is indeed what I signed up for when I selected PvP realm. I had no idea we’d have such a world buff meta as we do, and griefers would find such inventive ways of, well, griefing.
And yeah, I did go too far with the school shooter and child abuser analogy, that was hardly appropriate.
Why, I didn’t even get dispelled since early phase 4, partially because of summon taxis everywhere, and partially because I simply gave up on getting DMT and SF outside of speedrun weeks during Elwynn DMF. So it’s not even personal, I just find the people who do the corpse dispelling repulsive on principle.

Think most people would roll onto a PvE realm xD.
I probably would’ve enjoyed classic a lot more, if I chose to personally ;p

Playing on a PvP server has been great… if you dont think to hard about phase 2. I have enjoyed the shenanigans, if i had to do it again i would not change despite the spergs.

Dispelling wolrd buffs looks like a weird hobby indeed but that’s okay - I’ve seen many people with weird hobbies. Should you really judge other people on how they spend their time? You don’t know anything about these people and their lives but you come here to talk big because you are on the internet.
As we can see, people act differently in real life compared to a virtual world where they are pretty much anonymous behind their avatar.
Are the people you know truly good people or are they just acting good in real life because they are scared of the consequences? People are more likely to do bad things In video games where we all experience less dramatic consequences than in RL. So it’s basically a good thing that people can experience this in a harmless way. On top of that it’s a role playing game - you can choose to act and play a role however you want. One can’t be a good person while being harmless, that would be very naive. A good person is capable of doing very bad stuff but decides not to do it.

It’s not that hard to avoid being dispelled.

The best change that could happen though, is to just disable all world buffs inside raids.

Thank you for the lecture, doctor Peterson :wink:

F you and your feelings. Don’t run around in stormwind with pvp flag on, easy AF.

An even better change would be to give out dmt buffs only the moment King Gordok dies. Can you imagine having to do something for your buffs?

That would do literal nothing though? You’d just run DM and proceed as normal.

It’s not personal.

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PVP happening on a PVP server.

Say it ain’t so.

Suggest you get good.

PvP happened on a PvP server, series 5843902584290584, episode 948529054724979.

you’d actually have to run DM for every set of 5 players that want the buff. now imagine if a healer or a tank didn’t want to run DM more than 1 time for buffs. riot?

Just have a fury warrior tank it, and you should have plenty of healers for each group.

And if that fails, just pug it.

there’s already a fix in the game for this specific ‘issue’:

-get new worldbuffs
-don’t get dispelled again.

If you do happen to get dispelled again:

-repeat process

Tbh all that would happen would be healers and tanks selling their services to guilds for gold.

Just remove them from the game or stop crying when you lose them is best solution

Correct. Can you imagine the reaction from raidloggers who would have to play the game for their buffs? It would be glorious!

my point is an entire guild would have to run the instance, which reinforces his argument. Although I’m getting a feeling there was sarcasm at one point and we’re just arguing needlessly.
I’m all for giving the wb tryhards a run for their money.

and that’s bad how?

Play on a PvE server

There is a reason they removed these things in future expansions

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