Please Disable Guards Flagging Players If They Are Not Attacked Back

[Jakensama-skyfury]

@Finaltest-bloodsail-buccaneers

There are multiple places in the game where guards will patrol and flag unsuspecting players

Found your problem. Skill issue.

[Kallenia-moon-guard]

Nothing says fun like getting killed by some dude that camps the area all day for the crime of getting the aggro of a guard that isn’t even high level . Not even a DC would get me to quit but that actually would, screw that.

[Shadows-grobbulus]

The same thing happened to Bajheera in Ashenvale. He aggroed a Horde guard and was PVP flagged as soon as it hit him. Normal PVE server mechanic.

[Eyr-whitemane]

all i knows is blizzard made a fine point in the HC announcement to tell you to stay away from enemy guards. if a flagged guard is attacking you, you are waaay too close to getting PvP flagged anyway. just staaaay away

[Magor-defias-pillager]

@Shamockery-pagle

We aren’t playing OG Wrath, we’re playing a form of OG Vanilla. OG Vanilla did not flag you for aggro-ing flagged guards.

I aggro’d SS guards and did not flag, so, if nothing else, it’s inconsistent which should be addressed on some level. Hopefully in a way that removes flagging completely without hitting “/pvp”.

Aggroing guards doesn’t flag you.

Getting hit by them does.

[Magor-defias-pillager]

@Lugd-mankrik

This was a bug introduced with the hardcore servers. Examples from a few months ago of players not getting flagged from being hit by a guard on Era servers:

1. https://youtu.be/Olc13Fs4wZI?si=sJ-4jkI-UDHR9zHk&t=10
2. https://youtu.be/EfsW0LQUTOs?si=6BO10lRi9g6ddSMd&t=5074

I hope that Blizzard finds a way to change it back to how it used to work in Era. The griefing is going to get bad.

Sounds like NOT being flagged by a guard hitting you is the actual bug, since the majority of times it flags you.

[Vanillataur-garrosh]

@Magor-defias-pillager

Sounds like NOT being flagged by a guard hitting you is the actual bug, since the majority of times it flags you.

As Blizz promised only consentual PvP on the HC servers it IS a bug that an attacking Guard flags you. This can and will be abused, and should be hotfixed asap.

[Magor-defias-pillager]

@Vanillataur-garrosh

As Blizz promised only consentual PvP on the HC servers it IS a bug that an attacking Guard flags you. This can and will be abused, and should be hotfixed asap.

No. They promised you couldn’t accidentally flag yourself by hitting another player who might be baiting it. They didn’t promise that guards wouldn’t flag you so the faction can defend its territory.

There are still factions, and you are still an invader. If you carry a Swiftness Potion you can avoid getting hit, like I did at a guard tower in the Barrens. Zoom zoom.

[Vanillataur-garrosh]

It’s important to note that attacking an enemy faction NPC will still flag you even if you haven’t typed /pvp, so steer clear of settlements of the opposing faction!

From the Rules of Engagement.

I do not know how you read this to mean that Guards attacking you would flag you.

[Magor-defias-pillager]

@Vanillataur-garrosh

From the Rules of Engagement.

I do not know how you read this to mean that Guards attacking you would flag you.

I do not know how you read this to mean that they wouldn’t. It literally says nothing about guards, only players.

[Shadows-grobbulus]

That’s how it’s always worked on PVE servers.

[Yamarãja-malganis]

There’s a ton of ways to avoid them, how about you just stop being lazy and dumb?

[Frosstfire-pagle]

The problem is you can’t really escape without hitting them.

I agree it’s dumb like it is, but the fix is probably not easy. You don’t want to allow players to just attack guards with zero downsides.

[Sthis-shandris]

This was the lift guard, not actual guards, and blizzard DID fix this bug. Town guards will absolutely flag you for PvP, as they should.

[Vanillataur-garrosh]

@Frosstfire-pagle

The problem is you can’t really escape without hitting them.

Just run - that’s what I always did, and I hve never been falgged on a PvE server before HC.

[Envy-uldaman]

Can you walk into an enemy city unflagged in hc? If not then you have your answer.

[Envy-uldaman]

Fly into sw. unless things changed it was that was through wotlk minimum.

[Envy-uldaman]

That’s because in some settlements guards don’t spawn unless attacking an npc. They’re explicitly saying attacking an npc will flag you and also steer clear of enemy settlements which simply entering can flag you.

[Vanillataur-garrosh]

Simply getting near a guard, like the elevator guy in 1K Needles should not flag you. Going INTO an enemy settlement should, but not just skirting it.
In short: Enabling PvP on an HC server should alway be an act of will, not an accident.

[Frosstfire-pagle]

@Vanillataur-garrosh

Just run - that’s what I always did, and I hve never been falgged on a PvE server before HC.

Just run, get dazed, and die. Great plan there.

No wonder HC is dying.

You have to CC the guards 9/10 times to live. They are usually skulls to you.