I know this may be low priority for blizzard. But there are literal armies of horde just sitting at the docks waiting for ally’s to get off the boat and instantly gank them. And we can’t even fight back because the ratchet guards only attack alliance but not the horde… oof
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they do attack horde as well
the amount of guard duty in ratchet is drastically lower in SoD than in other versions, for reasons we do not know
I imagine the reason why you couldn’t fight back is because you tried to do so in one of the spots that actually does have guards, which has been seemingly decided at random
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Isn’t that called PvP?
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Dont set foot on blessed HORDE SOIL!!
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It sounds like a challenging situation in the game environment. Player-versus-player dynamics and faction imbalances can be tricky to address. While it may be a low priority, providing feedback on such issues through official channels or forums could help bring attention to the community’s concerns. Developers often take player feedback into account when making adjustments to improve the overall gaming experience.
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There is a guy who gives quests for runes but he’s not guarded. This means free kills for the horde waiting for any ally players coming here, it’s impossible to go to Ratchet without dying at least 2 or 3 times because guards are almost nowhere to be seen inside the city.
I couldn’t even read the quests because some players think it’s funny to group and kill repeatedly someone.
And as a note I was just killed on the boat of ratchet by this same group while I was writing this, it’s really bad. Killed at Stranglethorn too.
A quarter of Wow sod is being dead and walking to the corpse because peoples group up and gank 
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fun times, i like pvp
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Ratchet is neutral territory run by goblins.
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Orcs should go back to Outland
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So? It’s allowed. If you don’t like it then why make a character on a PvP realm?
People’s mentality: I want to PvP so I’m going to Roll on a PvP realm. Waaa! I’m being ganked. Make people stop it.
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Some other people’s mentality: I want to say something, but have nothing substantial to say, so I create a strawman…
The complain was not PvP itself, but that Ratchet guards do not interfere as they should. That is, Ratchet as a relative safe zone does not exist.
If it is correct that guards attack Alliance only, then the system is flawed: In the neutral territory all should be attacked. It is absolutely valid to criticise that. Also, PvP realms have their relative safe zones and those should provide that safety reliably.
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No, they attack shreks as well, I personally lured them into guards.
In neutral towns you can’t be 100% safe on PvP server, player still can kill you there, even if they will be killed by guards later on.
Not questioning your observation. Though I agree also with others’ that the guard response does not seem to work properly. Many times I was surprised that attacking of Allies did not pull guards. Again: observations I made, not a scientific study.
Precisely because of that, I chose to use the wording relative safety.
It’s just the way guards are located in Ratchet, there are no guards near bank and FP (and also inn if I’m not mistaken)
I know. Still seems not right to me. I am aware that this is very subjective.
Of course, it is also possible that people just got better in it and do position more carefully. Don’t want to rule that out…
There are tons of things that seem unfair or weird in Classic. The main question – what devs should do? If they won’t implement changes people will be frustrated that they doing nothing. If they do implement changes – people are furious that they change original ideas (even if it’s SoD).
Don’t they only help if you are friendly with ratchet or is that some misinformation?
You misunderstood me. I did not talk about fairness. I picked-up the complaint of the original poster about the guards’ behaviour, for it matches with my observation.
I meant “not right” in a technical sense, i.e. as a deviation from the (assumed) standard. The standard being that the guards in Ratchet are actually guarding and not chilling.
They will attack anyone in their aggro range if they try to PvP, doesn’t matter you’re Horde/Alliance
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I already started a petition to build a wall around Teldrassil. Orgrimmar does not send us their best… Neither does Ironforge.
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