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PVP Relations

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As I said before, I’m really enjoying the cross-server PVP battlegrounds in Warcraft. It’s not so much the fast and furious queues as the constant arguments. I was even ditching guild raids for a time so I could PVP — while on the DKP waiting list mind you — and watch some more x-server arguments.

Sometimes, the x-server battlegroup mates will come to our realm forums to continue the arguments or to share screenshots of us losing a battleground miserably. I really wonder what’s the purpose of that — we’re not running around saying we never lose … far from it. We sometimes lose in a most spectacular way. I recall at least two times on Friday night when our server PVP raid could not hold the Arathi Basin stables for love nor money. Certainly, Arathi Basin can be won by the Alliance without the stables, but it’s a point of pride with me.

Speaking of Friday night and that server PVP raid group, I was ninja invited into the raid by a guildmate and I, in turn, ninja invited Raidleader into the raid. Immediately, we noticed that BabbleOn (she of prior weeks’ story — Part I and Part II) was leading this PVP hoe-down. It was hard to miss — she kept spamming her own Ventrilo information for people to join.

(Ya. No fucking way.)

Anyhow, we were having a conversation in /bg chat about some assbag shaman that wanted to die by our hands, repeatedly, when she said something like: what in the hell are you guys talking about? She must have looked at the raid roster because then she said: Oh. People on my ignore list are in here.

I just love gaming moments like that. We left soon after because more guildmates wanted to join in and she had a waitlist for the raid or some bullshit, and also … we were laughing so hard about the ignore list and the new titles she granted us (Raidleader the Fucker and Foton the Asshole), that we were completely useless for PVP.

I was really hoping that she’d scream (or ALL CAPS) “I’ll fucking kill you” because that’s a personal gaming goal of mine — to have someone scream “I’ll fucking kill you” and mean it — but no luck on that. I truly believe I came close this time, however.

Anyways, I’ve been collecting some x-server screenies to share:

May Your Children Strangle You

That was one guy yelling at another guy who didn’t tap the flag in Arathi Basin. Seems to me that “useless/worthless prick” is a very underrated insult. I’m going to add this to my regular rotation of PVP insults directed towards teammates.

Learn to Heal

Here’s another guy upset about the quality of healing in the PVP battlegrounds but he really fell short on his insult. I have a feeling that kids nowadays don’t even blink when their parents get divorced. Isn’t it more like “what took you guys so long?” rather than “GOD NO!! WHY?? WHY?? Is it me? It’s me, isn’t it?”

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Finding Joy in the Grind

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For reference, I am an Alliance rogue. Your mileage may vary.

Evil things I like to do in World of Warcraft’s PVP Battlegrounds:

1. Kill warlock pets. This has become such an addiction for me, I’ll cheapshot, blind, sap (the miscellaneous stuns available in the rogue bag of tricks) the warlock, and let him stew for a bit while I kill the pet. That’s right, I’ll leave a loose warlock out there just so I can nail the pet. This isn’t even a tactical decision, this is me being a dick. (Thanks to Raster for introducing me to this mini-game within the PVP game.)

2. Turn on auto attack while a caster is backing up in my direction. Caster, meet the buzzsaw. Most of the time, I do this for my own amusement rather than out of necessity because, say, stealth or vanish aren’t available.

3. Allow the 5-combo pointed priest/mage to think he dodged a bullet. The priest or mage does his/her thing, I do mine — 5 combo points worth of mine. The mage iceblocks, the priest psychic screams (their AE fear), whathaveyou. I restealth or vanish, they back away, alt-tabbing wildly, looking for me. (When I have 5-combo points, caster, you don’t back away, you run away.) Tada! Surprise! See ya next fall.

4. I’m a bow-spec rogue … honest. I love the frost nova + blink combo that mages do. One of the few chances I get to haul out ye olde bow in PVP. I COULD vanish out of the frost nova (it’s a mage root), but it’s more sporting to bow them down.

5. Guard Alterac Valley’s Snowfall graveyard. Not really, who gives a shit about Snowfall once the Alliance has Iceblood or beyond? Not me. But sometimes there’s a shouting dude in the AV raid that calls everyone tards (or in their venacular, “retarts”) and shouts out instructions as if no one in the raid has ever won an Alterac Valley before. If we’re losing or falling behind, it’s never THEIR fault, it’s always the rest of us because they’re the smartest human on the planet. In our raid! The smartest! Talk about lucky.

Anyways, they’ll shout their Captain Obvious instructions and I’ll remind them (several times if necessary) /bg I’m on defense at Snowfall. Eventually, they take the bait and call me an idiot in the raid channel. “ABANDON SNOWFALL U TART! GET DOWN TO FROSTWOLF!” Did I say Snowfall? I meant the Relief Hut.

Imagining the bulging vein in their forehead gives me a great deal of pleasure.

Similar dickweed stuff I do to the shouting dudes in Warsong Gulch: /bg Hiding the flag in Horde base cuz they’ll never look for it here!