I started on a pvp server in vanilla.
It was the so boring.
because NO ONE gets to tell me how I will spend my time in a game I’m paying monthly for.
It’s my choice when I quest. It’s my choice to join group content and give up some of my freedom for the good of that group (or not if I don’t feel like it. I can make my own group). It’s my choice when I flag or when I BG.
If the only choice is PVP or nothing. I choose nothing.
(though my abject hatred of all things PVP largely stems from us having historically complete garbage internet and the pvp game being essentially unplayable. I rarely even do BGs because of that, and mostly stuck to AV since it had PVE content for awhile or large group battles where my latency issues didn’t manifest as hard).
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I’m nearing an age I’d rather not disclose and I don’t have all the time in the world to devote to this game. As a result, I value what time I do have and I want to play and enjoy the experience at every level, playing when and where I want at my own pace. Playing on a PvP server means other players dictate when and where I may play. That’s not fun to me, that’s not enjoyable to me. There is absolutely no part of that I want to experience.
Want to play on a PvP server? Great, go nuts! We all, thankfully, have a choice we can make. Why some people feel the need to insult or belittle someone for their choice of server, I’ll never understand.
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That’s a great way to put things into perspective!
i’d like to afk on a hill and not die. I do that a lot.
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Because I prefer cooperative play over competitive play.
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This is pretty much my experience in a nutshell. Most overworld PvP happened in the context of the evil overlords handbook. The person instigating it made sure the fight was unfair before they started it.
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Is this a serious question? I mean, it sort of answers itself.
Been there, done that the first time around. I have no intention of playing to prove anything this time around, to myself or others. I intend to enjoy the game, and for me, that experience was 95% PvE centric, and most of the PvP was either Battlegrounds or large group activity, which can happen on PvE as well. So I miss exactly zero by not going for PVP. Sure I lose some “street cred” for doing so, but I don’t care.
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Grow the hell up
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WoW was created specifically by Blizzard so that a player doesn’t have to engage in any PVP at all. Think about it.
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There’s this misconception that PvP doesn’t happen on PvE servers, but it does. While I was leveling up during TBC Auberdine and random posts in Ashenvale were constantly under attack, and people would jump in to defend the towns. Meeting a random horde out in the world usually meant a lengthy courtship ritual of emote insults and trying to trick the other one into flagging. It felt like an uneasy truce more than an outright war, and I like that.
I love world PvP but I don’t like ganking or that feeling that you have to ruin someone’s day just because their name is red. PvP servers give people too much incentive to be awful to each other for my taste.
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There’s also the part where unpleasant people tend to gather on PvP servers while PvE servers are more likely to have a nice playerbase.
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This is such an odd question when the answer is so obvious.
Ya ever see those videos of streamers raging and getting camped?
That’s why.
To be honest it’s just because people don’t like getting ganked.
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Some people just want to do dungeons, quests, and raids. If they want to pvp the can q for a bg.
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Yes that’s the point, the benefit of being on a pvp server is you get to gank people the draw back of being on a pvp server is they get to gank you. So yeah depending on how you weigh those pros and cons will determine what kind of server you play on.
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cuz getting ganked by someone 40 levels higher whom you also can’t see isnt very fun. i prefer to fight those within 10 levels of my level range
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I don’t care about Alliance vs Horde, I just play the races with the best running animations regardless of faction (and I’m not even joking).