Foton explains it all. The sum of one-on-one Warcraft PvP can be encapsulated thusly.
I just saved you the lion’s share of the PvP learning curve.
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Ding. Now What?
Ding, level 60. And, now what?
Let me back up.
For couple months now, all of my little guild of e-thugs’ efforts have been focused on dinging level 60 and amassing a small portion of game wealth. We helped the laggers, redid the highly profitable quests ad nauseum for the “lesser” classes among us, gathered crafting components until our asses were numb, and whored every stick of uncommon, rare and epic loot that fell into our virtual laps.
So it was with a great sense of accomplishment that we all dinged level 60, one by one, this weekend.
After a bit of wooting, the one guy asked the obvious, “now what?” (Thanks for ruining the moment, asshole.)
No Shortage of Idiots Yet
Here’s yet another example of someone that SHOULD BE RUN OVER BY A BUS THEN BURIED IN AN UNMARKED GRAVE.
Thread title: I’d rather lose XP, not gold for dying.
On most days, I’d rather have no death penalty at all, being the lazy SOB that I am (hmm, does that make me a bleeding heart gamer?), but I realize death penalties are a necessary evil. I guess.
I didn’t read on to see if this fucking idiot the author had played EQ at all (or CLAIMED to have played EQ) — mostly because I want to pull the remaning clumps of hair out of her undead skull — but, losing experience is far worse than paying a gold penalty for an untimely death.
Experience loss and its evil offspring, LOSS OF LEVEL, were responsible for reducing grown men to tears in EQ-Classic. So dreaded were these two, that we had an entire system to avoid invoking their wrath; as everyone knew, we were in grave danger right after dinging a new level.
Until we had a “safety margin” in the new level, we avoided raiding, GM events, boss mobs, dangerous camps, high cliffs and dueling … because EQ never got that dueling shit fixed.
Not that I ever cried when I lost a level.
I’m more of a punch a hole in the wall and/or shove everything off the desk while blaspheming kind of player.