now i’m not saying that Gankers should be outright banned for it, but i do think that when players decide to pick on other players much weaker than they are, they need to be debuffed for it and that debuff should stack on them as they repeat it, making them in turn gankable by players at THEIR level.
see i understand that when War Mode is on you’re basically agreeing to open world combat, but how in the FEL are you as a 50-something supposed to fend off a level 60 who can practically OHKO you?? more importantly why do people even do it in the first place? Payback? Honor? Trolling?? most certainly i think it’s the latter… and with Blizz being against stuff like harassment in the social contract, they should take a stand against ganking as well.
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They pick on you bc they can’t win a duel with someone with a similar Item level.
Have pity for them.
I never touch low level, AFK or poorly geared ppl in WM.
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found a ganker… as Chris Jericho would say… YOU JUST MADE THE LIST!
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?
i havent had wm on since the start of the expac lol
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Years ago these types of posts were met with “pvp happened on a pvp realm”. Now its “pvp happened in warmode”. Both are basically correct.
The devs would tell you this, if you could talk to them: pvp is a player option and can have a pvp solution. The solution is that if you are being ganked you have a number of options (aside from just not having wm on at all) and they include getting help from other players. The whole social aspect is supposedly so you can call out in chat or your guild or community or whatever to get some other players to come beat the crap out of whoever is ganking you.
Does that always work? No it doesn’t, and it never did. But tht’s what you’d be told because warmode, being an option, is one you turn on taking into account the risk of this exact situation happening.
Punishing someone for engaging in pvp will not happen.
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then dont support ganking, WM gives a HUGE XP boost and therefore you’d want it on to reap the easier levels, besides i do want to fight against players that are my level and not AFK, i just dont want to be one shot by micro-peen PVPers.
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? i dont support ganking
you turn on WM that’s the risk you take. if you don’t want to be ganked, turn off WM. there’s literally nothing blizzard can do about this. and honestly, leveling in dungeons > open world content.
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World PVP has not, and never will be, a fair and balanced interaction.
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It’s like I’ve gone back in time to 2005 on a PvP Server 
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i see some one did not play on a pvp server back in the day
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so that should never change by your thought process? why should anything in the game change then? hypocrisy is thick in the air, and it stinks.
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I don’t know why anyone would turn on war mode unless they are 60 and have decent pvp gear. Might as well just have a tabard that says “Gank Me!”
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wait what is this 2006?
if you’re in warmode, best wear your big boy pants and be prepared for unfair pvp.
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Sounds like a severe case of the Sucks to Suck
Warmode means you’re ready for war, you just came less prepared
Also you said penal, hehe
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The entire reason there’s a bonus at all is to account for time lost to WPvP, which is everything from fair fights to getting ganked by someone twice your level.
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I hope they bring back bounties. That was kinda cool.
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People who enable warmode for the bonuses then complain about PvP happening are like the people who join the army to pay for their education, then complain when there’s a war.
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Once upon a time, something like this existed.
I don’t remember that ever being a thing. The closest I can think of was DHKs but that was for killing NPCs tagged as civilians, not low level players.
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