It’s actually all around 100% world pvp with a pvp solution.
Funny you’re posting on an alliance toon when I didn’t see a single alliance crying like this last month.
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So being “inconvenienced” is equivalent to “griefing” now?
Jeeez ya’ll soft.
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Yesterday I got all my buffs set, head dropped, and I ran from SW to the faire to grab my buff. No horde in sight (We’re good to go 
).
As soon as i clicked the npc a shaman ressed and purged all my buffs. We killed him, and I was sad.
Should I create my own post about griefing? I wanna hear your thoughts.
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You can, if you want. My answer will be the same. Try PvE.
Actually yes thats exactly what it’s lol.
I dont think a single “thats not griefing” poster anywhere on these forums understands what the term grieving means.
Let me help you out.
“Griefing is the act of chronically causing consternation to other members of an online community, or more specifically, intentionally disrupting the immersion of another player in their gameplay.”
The stuff thats happening in Classic regarding world buffs is 100% grieving. Priests just sitting in ghost form waiting to pop and spam dispell and this NPC stacking etc etc are all forms of griefing.
Huh? 
Not DMF though. You came out alright.
Because if you used your brain you could easily work around these mere speed bumps.
But yeah sure come to the forums and complain how your victim to the opposite faction.
You’re right about on thing. You’re a victim. A victim to your own stupidity.
very true
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Sorry, as much as I dislike the purge/dispel meta, it isnt technically griefing. The issue is that the player in question is playing the game how they wish with abilities provided by the game and within the limitations of what the game has available. On a pvp server the opposing faction can use any of their abilities against the enemy and if their choice is dispel and not an attack, you cannot claim one is pvp and the other is griefing.
Certain players take it to the extreme and it does impact community, but the typical approach Blizzard will take is to not stir the pot with any direct action. Leave the world to the players as long as specific rules are not being violated. We are in a society right now that calls the police because their was a hit and run but protest and spit in their face as they are helping someone in critical condition.
It’s not griefing because its optional and does not hinder game play. It’s not a quest giver and it has no significance outside of a buff. Therefore that argument is null.
Besides the OP should mention the horde do it just as much as the Alliance do and only complains when its in Elwynn. Double standards nullify arguments.
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Blocking an NPC with mounts is zone disruption whether it’s your faction or the other faction, and players have been suspended for it. Do so at your own risk.
No one has ever been banned for purging buffs, or killing you in Elywnn forest, though. That’s perfectly legal.
World PvP has always been 99% griefing, and has been for 15 years. Classic just laid that fact bare to the point of absurdity.
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You can also literally make exact targeting macros as well. This is a non-issue.
Don’t go outside then brother…if you consider PvP on a PvP server to cause you that degree of grief—you are in no way prepared for the rigmarole and inconveniences of everyday life.
At this point the word “griefing” is just used arbitrarily for any and every inconvenience the gaming community faces. Someone could trip over their own shoelaces and yell “GREIFING WAHAHA”…it’s used so much and so often for any little nuance, that the word has lost it’s value. As it should have…the gaming community just absolutely wore the hell out of the word.
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Before Classic even launched I was laughing at all the psuedo badass hype over PvP servers. Now all you read from these people is complaining that you can’t quest in Redridge or it takes an hour to get to MC or being griefed by boxers or roving bands of people with nothing better to do than ruin your day.
Who is missing out on half the game??
If you go with this definition, then anything anyone does if it becomes an inconvenience for another player can be considered griefing. There has to be a point where there is normal game play and becoming a nuisance.
People have destroyed the meaning of the word griefing just as bad as they have destroyed the word cheating.
Griefing - anything that I don’t like that inconveniences me even if it’s fine in game.
Cheating - anything that I don’t like that I think should be illegal but isn’t.
It’s not the “griefers” or the “cheaters” that are getting out of hand in my opinion. It’s people tossing around words for the sake of trying to garner sympathy in the court of public opinion.
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This right here made me laugh.
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100% a moot point, you can simply kill people that are trying to do that in STV. lmfao.
You forgot the part in P1 when leveling where it was intense, swung to both sides, gave you something to fight for and broke up the monotony of leveling . Stupid gnome taking all your mobs? Gank him mid pull and take all the loot for yourself, its so much funner than just mindlessly questing on NPCs.
I agree now its poop, ever since BG’s came out world PvP is just who can waste the most time.