Just wanted to say that phasing just frustrates me constantly in War Mode. My level 52 alt just got ganked 7 times by a level 60 shaman. All he has to do is cast Lightning Lasso, I have no pvp trinket I’m leveling. Nobody is there to stop him and no one is there to ask for help. I don’t even care that I’m dying, that’s the fate of World PVP, it has been for almost 2 decades now, but I can’t even swap to my main character who’s absolutely more geared than he was and gank him back. This dude took 20 minutes of his time to gank my low level alt, all I want to do is go graveyard camp him on my main until he logs off and learns his lesson. Originally I can just show up to where I was on the same server and see if he’s still there. Now I do that and hope to god I’m in the same phase. Guess what? I wasn’t. That’s why I’m typing this.
Just wanted to point out that most of my deaths weren’t even in the open questing. I was sitting in Aspirant’s Rest after he initially ganked me while afk. The guards don’t do anything but net him and he just blinks off with Soulshape and comes back for the next round.
You gotta phase to his shard, THEN you can camp.
That’s the thing though, how do you phase to his shard when no one else is around? The best thing I can think of would be join the group of someone else on your server or a connected server who you know is also on War Mode. There’s also no guarantee I actually ever even reach his shard, there’s no direct way to do that.
amen. this is the one thing that pisses me off about all this sharding/phasing BS.
My man, I understand whole heartedly this kind of frustration.
But now it’s not just sharting that’s a problem. Lets say you manage to find said camper due to no sharting. As soon as you even come across this pendejo, one little scratch on his armor opens up some mysterious portal you can’t see and then out of nowhere 3+ more Alliance jump in. One of them you can guarantee will be a healer, and the other two likely some heavy CC/Burst combo that allow the enemy Shaman get away shart free.
Phasing only bugs me in that the druid gathering bots manage to phase sometimes in the middle of my corpse camping them on my rogue.
I mean, how can I maintain my honor farm on them when they can just poof out of phase?! So unfair.
and that is why you can toggle on and off world pvp .
You have to find someone on the same server as they are on and get invited to that shard. One server can have several. They did some changes to sharding for SL launch that forces you to go to a sanctuary before heading right out to that shard. This is to prevent a community from sharding in 160 players to kill 3 people. It also pretty much killed wpvp at a community level.
This is not at all what my problem with the system actually is. I’m not complaining about world pvp, I’m complaining that I literally cannot participate in world pvp how I used to enjoy. Now I’m incentivized on my alts to get ganked for 20 min and not retaliate.
Oh. Yeah its annoying I agree.
I’ve theorized for a while now that there’s an actual system like this in place. I’ve lost count of the amount of times this has happened to me. There I am, doing a world quest when I see a member of the opposite faction who doesn’t seem to be in a party. I follow him around for a minute to make sure nobody else is around. My spy addon is not alerting me of any other player. The moment I touch this guy, 3 to 5 enemy players suddenly come out of nowhere. Almost as if they phased there.