Griefing & Harassing Levellers - Venting

There’s some Horde BE Rogue on Earthshaker EU in Tanaris, killing players repeatedly, camping corpses, then following, taunting, essentially harassing them in Gadgetzan. Routinely, for hours, every day.

I’m just venting to be honest, because I know the answers to this will be “It’s a pvp server”, “do something else for a while”, “level somewhere else” etc etc. And you are all undeniably correct. So let me have this, because this is the third night in a row I’ve been trying to make use of the joyous journeys buff, and have basically been able to make no progress.

I’ve played this game since 2007, and this is the worst, honestly, the worst experience I’ve ever had of this sort. I’m talking hours guys, hours. I log off, play Diablo for an hour or two, and this Rogue is still there. Camping flight paths, and high traffic quest mob areas. They’ve named their guild Tanaris Beach Police, I think because they predominantly grief player along the eat coast of Tanaris, where the pirates are. That’s where this first started for myself.

Maybe I’ve had it easy over the years. But my God, this person must have no life. I’m inclined to believe this is the sole reason they play the game. It’s pathetic.

I know this is the exact reaction they want. But this behavior is actually against ToS, and I can do nothing about it. I get Ambushed, die instantly, they camp my corpse, as soon as a res, I die instantly again, I have to inch toward the flight master, fly and log out. I was in Un’Goro tonight, died four or five times in Marshal’s refuge, I thought they’d leave me alone if I left to do some quests, maybe they’d lose me. They followed me all the way to the Gorilla cave, and killed me again while I was fighting the mobs there. Was the same on Wednesday night, I was repeatedly killed trying to finish the pirate quests on the east coast of Tanaris, I had to move on.

It’s not even like this person wants to duel. They just outright kill me over and over, and then spam laughing emotes. This is the third day this has been happening. I essentially can’t play the character if this person is online.

I appreciate some people things this sort of things is funny, and the first night, I pandered to it for an hour or so. But there’s a line being crossed here, this is messed up. I had to create a Horde character to ask him to stop, and he just responded with “be prepared to never quest here ever again”. I’ve had to keep the horde character with him add as a friend, so I can check when he’s online. Tonight he’s been doing this for three hours. They’re dedicating their play time to disrupting and preventing the leveling experience in Tanaris / Un’Goro.

For those wondering where this kind of thing is in the ToS:

  1. Harassment, “griefing,” abusive behavior or chat, conduct intended to unreasonably undermine or disrupt the Game experiences of others, deliberate inactivity or disconnecting, and/or any other activity which violates Blizzard’s Codes of Conduct or In-Game Policies.
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sey players genk relly bored or are relly bad pvp why genk low lvl dont gain anyting out of it dont see point just torment poor soul just show how sad person is

You know how I handle ganking of my alt? If I see some looser in basic PvP gear I go to my 5,2GS PvE fire mage and burn him to ashes if he stays long enought to corpse camp my alt.
I there are several of them or one but in good PvP gear I change leveling location or go take a short break so they get tired of waiting for my alt to get up.

Report them, Eventually a report will go through and they’ll get timed out for 3 days/week.

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If you know this, what are you venting for? I’ve been playing on a PvE server since 2019 and I’ve never had to deal with any of this.

Also, ganking has never fallen under the scope of the “harassment” rule, sorry. You can look back for posts on the similar topic and you’ll find this argument has gone nowhere for years. The fact Blizzard has always offered an alternative to players not wanting to deal with this is generally the reason why.

Why you didn’t say anything about our levels? Peoples reading this post and assume the guy in this text are level 80, no hes not. We are low level twinks and we are farming honor while we wait BG ques pop.
I don’t know exactly what happened last night, iam not the blood elf rogue. but Earthshaker is 99.60% Alliance realm and it is PVP realm. What is the difference between Pvp and Pve realms?

-World pvp is big part of this game.

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I mean, he is not able to camp everything at the same time. Back in Classic people would complain a lot in zone chat if someone was camping, so you’d know where not to go.
Now, let’s think why this is not happening:

  • either the game became so much of a single player experience that nobody uses zone chat
    OR
  • joyous journeys failed and there are no people leveling
    OR
  • he is specifically targeting you, and only you for some reason. Maybe you killed his alt, it’s one of your guildies trolling or another alliance member who is butthurt about something you did in the past

As for tips: try Hinterlands, Searing Gorge, Azshara, Blasted Lands, Felwood. Avoid Feralas, it’s close enough that he might target it as well. Of course, if he is out to get you specifically, then he will be able to track where you are using his alliance character and follow.

That guy has actually been employed by Blizzard to force people like you to pay $25 for a server transfer

It’s a PvP server.

It cant come as a suprise to anybody that the low & no lifes of the world gather at places like WoW to vent their frustration towards the world on other players.

Its all much easier for you to accept, even if its annoying, that whatever “harm” these people do to you, their lifes are 10x worse. There’s nothing you can tell them that the voice in their head at night already hasnt.

Be happy they are venting in a game and hope they dont do it on people around them.

Ganking is one thing (even tho I myself cant even muster the strenght to waste 10 sec on that), but when people systematically spend their time on this (as you describe “hours”) without getting bored or question what they are doing, be sure something isnt right with them.

The truth hurts to read of your’re one of them, but from the other side of things is much easier to feel pity than hate.

They will always be around, so adapt - atleast for your own sake.

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

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What their real lifes have to do with World PvP and killing low levels. You are actually tripping guys. Just relax :rofl:

Probably nothing right ^^ A person spending hours and days on sobotaging other peoples joy/experience, with nothing but damage pleasure as reward, surely has to be a happy balanced person and a resource for the people around him/her. Thats often reinforced when you see them communicate aswell, right?

Like said, ganking is one thing (and not what Im refering to here), but much like everything done outside of moderation there’s often more to it than the activity itself.
I very much doubt a productive person would be killing low levels days on end. Could be wrong tho, and I wish I was.

Whats worse is that when the topic is mentioned, the defense mechanisms kick in and the people who feel hit often just start some crazy rant with a flood of “:rofl:”-smileys and stereotypical “Cry” slurs.

It is what it is, somebody elses problem really.

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They are doing nothing against the rules but they are being scummy, the OP needs to find someone to do the same to this guy.

Haha Earthshaker is a 99.6% Alliance server.
You telling me that the Alliance there has no balls to handle a few horde players having fun in world pvp?

Horde truly is the superior faction in PVP it seems

Well well, there really is no problem here.

Go quest in Desolace, or Hillsbrad, or maybe even Stonetalon Mountains. You can also grind some green quests in Ashenvale.
You don’t HAVE to stay in STV.

Grandpa Othis talk: I remember the old days with Dishonorable Kills ha-ha-ha. You would get a DK by killing someone 10+ levels below you. People were -farming- DK’s getting themselves to like -99999 dishonored. Then, not much later, battleground were introduced and the honor system came.
They had to grind it all the way back up to 0, THEN start saving honor to gain ranks. Good times :slight_smile:

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Pvp happened on a pvp server, amazing.

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I love that people like you actually try to justify it :stuck_out_tongue: like there’s any diffference with a 49 twink in Tanaris and a lv 80 doing the same thing.
Just do your thing, enjoy it. And deal with the fact that your actions are pathetic for most.

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Wait, you leveled a horde twink on an alliance dominated server so you can enjoy some world PvP and annoy people who forgot they’re on a PvP server? I tip my proverbial hat to you good sir and wish you good fortune! May your Ambush crits be numerous and devastating!

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I didn’t know it was people of the same level doing it. But now that I do I can reverse my previous opinion and say they should go for it, fair World PvP on a PvP realm is good thing.

At level 80 it is a scumbag thing but at the same level it’s 100% fair. But these whiners think a one sided PvP realm is actually a PvE realm, I’m glad someone is keeping up the tradition of PvP realms on those realms.

Faulty logic.
Even a Lv 80 ganking low levels is 100% within game limits and thus fair. If you want to do it, go do it and have fun.

‘‘This is a PvP realm’’ is such backwards and weak logic. Noone’s debating your right to go out in the world and fight players. Noone’s really even debating punching down.

The point of OP and the vast majority of people that are fascinated by this is the lows people go to, to have this fun. Gearing up, getting all the enchants, getting all the consumeables and using that to ‘‘compete in World PvP’’ against questing players, that are maybe equal level but more likely below, is just a tad sad.

Calling it ‘‘World PvP’’ while in actuality you’re just oneshotting people and in (many of these cases) repeat that process over and over again, is just laughable.
There is no difference in a Lv 80 making the effort to do this and these twinks doing it.

By all means, go out and do it. If that’s your fun, that’s just that. Just don’t lie to yourself about having any morals in the matter. There are tons of different things you can do with World PvP that are engaging, without having to stoop this low.

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