There needs to be penalties for camping and killing low level players on a max level toon. Especially when they fly around your body waiting for you to release just so they can kill you again - and then suddenly you have a 1 minute + resurrection timer just to find out they are still there. Forcing you either just go do something else on another toon - ask for help - or bring your main out there to attempt to discourage them from continuing. Druids running through camps moonfiring every single PC they see.
Do not come at me with ‘turn warmode off’ - I do not want to turn it off, I love the IDEA of warmode - being able to PvP against the other faction of characters AT MY LEVEL. I enjoy that level of immersion of having a fight with the other faction when they are questing in the same ‘PvP’ theme’d zone such as Ashenvale. I would not even care if I got ganked by a bunch of alliance as long as they were around the same level as myself.
There is absolutely no reason why there is not a penalty for this stupid behavior - it accomplishes nothing for them, there is no gain whatsoever other than the sick satisfaction that they annoyed and one shot another player because they are garbage at actual challenging PvP.
I have resorted to parking my main near my alt while she levels so that when they start camping a low level quest hub - I can swap over and murder them; but I should not have to do this, and Blizzard should just discourage the behavior entirely.
If you come in here defending the behavior or just saying turn warmode off - then I’m going to assume that you are the same type of lowlife who has nothing better to do with their time.
Proposed idea??
If you kill several players who are significantly lower level than you in a somewhat mild timeframe (5-10 minutes?), you are debuffed with a crippling 30 minute curse that makes you able to be killed even by level 1 players. The system only counts these kills against you if you are the one who initiated combat / struck the first blow.
The first attack rule will help prevent low level players from purposely antagonizing higher level players just to get them penalized.
Does that sound harsh? No - it’s not - because you can choose not to be this kind of tool. Just like you can choose not to drink and drive, you can choose not to be a butt and grief low level players.
ADDITION — Because no one reads the replies
The loudest ones who are constantly replying with the same exact response like a broken record player don’t see just how many likes and agreement that I am getting from this. Hopefully someone from Blizzard actually reads this and decides to see if they can do something about this and deal with the people who actively participate in this kind of gameplay.
What I experienced was not PvP - it was griefing - I should not have to lose use of a feature of this game that I paid for because there are people with delusions of superiority and dominance complexes.
You’re all quick to say the same thing over and over again like some kind of brainwashed cult, but no one has actually given me an actual argument with any information that is factual in contradiction to what I’ve proposed; No one has given me any reason why this SHOULDN’T be a thing - because you can’t come up with one; because there isn’t one - there is no incentive, benefit, reward, or quest that condones or actively requests that you participate in griefing other players.
For the vast majority of you; you don’t indulge in this type of griefing behavior, so why do you care if they are penalized?
If you don’t want the penalty - don’t bully characters who are vastly under your level.