Several times now I’ve had people show up to the Theater Troupe event flagged for PVP, got people to accidentally attack them whilst trying to kill the mobs and then would go around killing other players, or running around trying to flag as many people as possible. They’re over just being a nuisance.
I honestly don’t know why or how it’s happening. It was my understand that you can’t attack a flagged player unless you manually enable PVP, or have war mode, or something to that affect, but this has happened way too many times.
I’m kinda at the point where I don’t think I’m going to be doing this content anymore if I’m just going to get messed over by some jerk “forcing” me to PVP when all I’m trying to do is completely weekly content.
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You can’t “accidentally” attack another player. That was changed years ago. If you’re able to hit them, it’s because you chose to flag up in the first place.
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Well, apparently you can, because it’s been happening. Unless it’s some kind of bug that’s specific to the Theater Troupe causing it to happen.
More like a bug specific to you. I see flagged people out there all the time, and while I do go out of my way to camp them for their transgression, I always have to flag up before I can touch them.
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No, it is entirely possible because you can still /PvP or right click your portrait and flag for pvp, and then being damaged by someone else auto-flags them too.
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You cannot damage a flagged player without being flagged. That’s not how it works.
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There have always been bugs with automatic flagging. It can happen to this day due to things like AOE or vehicle damage.
I believe anyone typing /pvp should automatically be put into War Mode and sharded away.
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You are seriously why wow is so lame now.
It is absolutely how it works in retail. Not sure why you can manually flag for pvp still, but if you are not in war mode it 100% allows you to manually flag and have all the old shenanigans.
Bonus: If you exit war mode in a capital city, it leaves you PvP flagged for 5 minutes. If you leave in a non-city rested area, it does not flag you.
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I didn’t say you can’t manually flag. I said you can’t accidentally flag yourself by hitting someone else who is. Your AoEs can’t damage them, and you can’t even directly attack them without first flagging. Go try it.
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I think we found the troll doing this in public events.
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You did say that. And it is not correct.
Of course you can, AOE is a thing.
Once again, go try it. You cannot attack another player, accidentally or otherwise, without manually flagging yourself first.
And you can only tag a flagged player with it if you yourself have manually flagged first. As I said before, they changed this years ago.
This is of course not the case in WoW classic. You can absolutely force-flag someone by walking through one of their AoEs while flagged on classic servers.
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Etrich is absolutely right, you cannot flag off of accidentally hitting a flagged player for the past 6 or so years. You can’t even heal flagged players anymore until you yourself manually flag. There are situations where you can accidentally automatically flag yourself (flying into a contested area and being struck by an NPC that is flagged), but you 100% cannot accidentally flag off of hitting someone else who is flagged anymore.
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There is an issue where you are unable to disable your PvP flag because you have a PvP quest in your quest log.
That makes it so that you are able to accidentally attack other similarly flagged players during Theater Troupe.
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Damn, I’m sorry about your luck friend. Maybe it’s a server thing? Because I have done the theater troupe event on a few characters every week and never ran into this problem, and I tab target so I’m one of those that would be easily tricked.
Then again, before I cast anything I make sure I see what I’m targeting. AOE (like Blade Dance) doesn’t seem to trigger PvP for me either when I’m out in the open world outside theater. So I’d probably say just take an extra tick to visually confirm you have targeted what you want to attack before attacking. PvPers have lived 20 years in this state. They are the true Trolls of WoW. I just don’t like PvP, so I have learned how to make sure I don’t trigger it.
Sorry this has affected your experience in the theater, maybe try my recommendation next time and see if it helps. Because, let’s be honest here, even the max chest from theater doesn’t give an absurd amount of resources, not enough to stress about not doing it for the week or stress about trying to get a better chest.
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See that I didn’t know. It does explain why some people in blue mode seem to walk around flagged for significant periods of time.
Not to ‘Umm Actually’ you, but, umm actually it is possible to flag yourself for PvP by attacking someone flagged for PvP still. It just won’t trigger for AOE attacks not aimed at that person. For instance, my Blade Dance will only hit them and flag me if they are my target, not if they are in the pack I’m thrashing while targeting something else.
But, you’re point is spot on. You have to press an ability while targeting another player to flag yourself outside of activating War Mode, so this does come down to a skill issue, attacking before you know what you’re attacking is never a good idea.
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I just tried to attack a flagged player directly while blue, and it did not work. Wonder if some abilities are bugged or something, because I know they intentionally and very specifically made it so none of these things were possible at one point.
This was tested first using every single-target ability in my kit, then all of my AoEs. None of them landed until I flagged. in fact, the single-target abilities wouldn’t even activate.
…Uh, a quick edit: I just managed to shoot a non-flagged player off their mount with the net gun. You know, the one that’s only supposed to work in war mode. What
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