I was never much of a pvp player. I pretty much hide in Alterac valley behind trees and buff, and snipe with my hunter. If I charge ahead, it usually is with my druid in bear form. That is usually/most of the time how I play. Sometime hide/stealth and steal flags ect, but usually, as my skill in pvp is limited, I dont fight face to face much, unless of course on a one way trip to graveyard as a bear tank just soaking damage.

Then again, I was in pve realm for the longest time. When I was questing the other day, I was surprised that an alliance in thaurissan, manage to just aim shot me for 20k and kill me.( I was at 20k+ hp as I was just solo questing like 3 mobs at a time in moonkin form, lvl 82-3)
Then, after that I went to guild chat to QQ about how I got pwned....

Also, I did participate in World PVP/E of raiding Ironforge/Stormwind...but I must say, questing is very different now.

If you dont like PVE, then perhaps WOW would not be that fresh for you. For me I certainly enjoyed all those new cutscene, backstabbing scenerio, various phased enviroment that was here since WOTK.

Achievement is another thing that keep tracks of various mundane stuff. Even the amount of gold you made in AH is now tracked... so you know what type of goblin you are.

Also, if you have your expectation adjusted, all QQing would not be unexpected...

Any player who encounters wipage (is there such a word) would try to assign blame, some to others, some to themselves. And with the anonymity, usually it is harder to assign blame to yourselves. Like when I dps low, I say I am like newbie... players usually dont bother too much.

However, the other day when I first ran random dungeon, I was promptly kicked by the group I was in.(I admit, that got me thinking wow I suck bad man.) Yeah, in case you didnt know, you can vote to kick out other players now a days.

I probably still suck, but I switch to bear tank,(which I previously dabbled more then moonkin) and I have not been kicked off random dungeons, and usually find a group in 1sec after queuing. dps on the other hand like 8minutes and longer)


Also, when I was doing 40 mans, you can also be sure there are pre-Madonna around, who would do all kind of drama. Usually, you gotta whisper various people to pacify them, and communicate discretely and respectfully. I have personally been loot whore before might still be... but jeez.... I adjusted my expectation, dont assign too much importance to WOW and I guess I live a little happier when good things happen.


Lastly, to say again, PVE is really nice, and I like companion pets alot too. (questing yields lots of experience, and it is quite fresh even after the last 10 quest involved you collecting the piece of basilik meat that you did when you were lvl 35 in stranglethorn.) You get to do various new things like lancing some flying birds... woah... kind of fresh)

This post has been edited by skywardsword: May 3 2012, 06:12 PM

really, if you want world pvp. try the fireland starting area. molten front or something like that. A number of alliance like to gank people there.