![So after all the drama about when it is appropriate to gank in the questing area and should there be camping/no camping, I was annoyed enough just to say “fuck it” and go balls to the wall (or tits to the glass in my case) and just start spending my [...]](http://lufitoom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WoWScrnShot_081211_232402-465x190.jpg "Lufitoom And Barexx Do Firelands, Conquest Vanguard Gank Style!")
So after all the drama about when it is appropriate to gank in the questing area and should there be camping/no camping, I was annoyed enough just to say “fuck it” and go balls to the wall (or tits to the glass in my case) and just start spending my time making Horde lives miserable. I do not care at this point if they have 8 children and only have 5 minutes to do their dailies. I am going to do everything in my power to prevent my enemy from being successful.
I am very glad my friend Barexx (Rogue) shares my passion for WPvP. We are usually found together, although we do gank apart as well. We decided early on Saturday that we would spend the day ganking with absolutely no mercy. This was after I was privvy to some comments in Horde general chat the night before as you see below:
Broken English but yeah...
Please note the name “Icyvenom” because he makes another appearance later!
Gotta love it!
Nothing like some raging to motivate us! Anyway, we started our day early and found a Shaman named Grommie that was a glutton for punishment. After the fourth or fifth gank, he decided that messaging Barexx using a level 1 Alliance would be the way to plead his case. His anger was apparent.
Anger and tears feed us!
This was a win! Yes! To get this reaction means we’re “doinitrite”. I guess he felt that this game, on a PvP server was serious business so he followed up with this… an actual death threat! SCORE!
Pixels on a Screen is SRS folks!
After this, Grommie logged out, without reclaiming his body and was not seen again.
Now we decided to make our home “The Furnace”. It is a large hole in Firelands where you go down after a “boss” fight during a daily and then when you are done with the dailies down there, you catch a hot air vent back up to the top. The hole is always there.
The Furnace as seen after you have done the dailies.
It is quite menacing! Once you have done the dailies, if you jump in the hole (without the benefit of a parachute/levitate/slow fall etc.) you will die and take durability damage. There is a rappelling rope on the side tho that allows you to descend safely (see below).
See the rope?
Can you see where I’m going with this? Do you know the temptation that a Moonkin feels when there is a ledge or a cliff around? Not only that, but when the questers come back up from the depths of The Furnace, they are placed on the edge where a nice, refreshing Typhoon is waiting courtesy of yours truly, Lufitoom, the Bloodthirsty.
Game on! Victim after victim plummet to their deaths, not once but multiple times. Barexx was on hand for the rare times that the Typhoon did not work or was on CD. It was more satisfying than you could imagine. Please enjoy some screenshots of the fun that was had at the expense of the dirty Horde!
Tauren Mcsteve gets naked to avoid any more durability damage after the 6th fall back in the hole!
Arianna enjoys her trip back south.
But with no better results! GG!
Oh boy! Here comes another customer….
Well dressed Druid tries his luck!Still failed...
Still failed...
This continued on and off all day. Some made it out, most ended up doing what this Warrior below did… Hearth!
The only way out?
Now before anyone goes ragey on me, remember… I too have been on the receiving end of this. You have outs. Someone can summon outside the area in Hyjal, you can use many abilities to get out (Mages blink for instance). People were smart and took advantage of my 20 second cooldown on Typhoon. This is not a situation where you just can’t get out. I have been held hostage by a rival guild before (mind controlled and healed back to health and then chain cc’d for over an hour). It’s a game. Be clever and cunning and you can get out of anything!
We didn’t just stay there though. We caused murder and mayhem all over the area. While Barexx was taking his lunch break, I found my friend Icyvenom once again (remember him complaining in Horde General Chat?). I took the opportunity to teach him a lesson about whining.
So, leaving the original screenshot name so you can see the times: Poor Icyvenom gets mad!
The rage continued during the evening hours and into the morning.
I know that many of you don’t approve of ganking but this is how I view it. I am Alliance (Night Elf at that) and I hate EVERYONE. I am going to fight against those dastardly Horde and prevent them from being successful. I will utilize every tree, rock, hole, spell, ability, pie, frog or rubber band that will help me. Case closed.
At the end of our ganking day, we had gotten over 300 honorable kills by ganking in the Firelands alone. No battlegrounds. This brought my lifetime total to over 329,000. I am proudest of the screenshot below. Before we arrived, this path was clear and clean. It is now littered with the bones left behind. Oh, and HI NER’ZHUL! Barexx and Lufitoom love your moxie and thanks for all the good times and good fights tonight.
Self-aggrandizing fluff. Your perspective on the game is so wrong. Congratulations you can kill weaker players for hours on end. You’re no better than a childhood bully preying on the weak. If you were as actually as skilled as you make yourself out to be, you’d play on Tichondrius. Then again, you’re not looking for a challenge, just some ego stroking.
It’s a shame we never came across each other, it would’ve been fun. This is really the only wPvP that other servers have. Makes me glad to be on Emerald Dream where just yesterday we had a massive Horde vs Alliance battle in Silithus.
Partially right sir. It is self-aggrandizing. But these were not all weaker players. Got our asses kicked a few times, noses bloodied up, and had a fun time. The difference between this and being a childhood bully is that THIS IS NOT REAL.
This is a game. There are talking dogs and cows. I never have to poop in game and every time I die, a few seconds later, VOILA! I’M ALIVE! This game we play is about war. It is about killing. If you want to put some reality into this game of fantasy, how about putting in that main ingredient? Do you think that if we were in a day-to-day, hand-to-hand war in real life (yes, I am aware we are at war and my respect goes out to all that serve), we would say… “Oh my… let me be nice to that lesser geared/skilled/supplied invader of my homeland. I am more powerful and it wouldn’t be fair that I conquer my enemy!”
Tichondrius is not known for its world pvp but does boast some of the best players in the world. I could give two shits AND a rats ass about arena. I suck at arena. Maxed out ~2k and have no interest in ever trying to better myself there. I’ve done Mal’Ganis and played with some of the best in the world and it was fun to watch, but I’ll never be that kind of player. I’m realistic… I have played on the best WPvP server, Emerald Dream, and that is what ALL other servers have to measure up to if they want to talk about WPvP.
I also note that you did not read the post fully, because bullies do not normally thank their opponents, congratulating them on the good fights and saying it had been fun.
But thank you for the lulz. You just reinforced the point that I was making.
Entertaining post. The one thing I have to say is, poor naked McSteve.
I have to state, I am horrible at PvP. There are times when I just want to do my dailies or level, but that doesn’t work out at times when I’m on a PvP server (or flagged).
This reminds me of IQD — that was a hotbed of WPvP as well. Honestly, it was a ton of fun, too. Sure, if I was doing my dailies and I was ganked, well, either I’d just find something else to do, or join in and do my scrubby PvP thing.
The concept of the game is always the division between Horde and Alliance. Sure, we have common enemies, but the peace between the factions are tenuous at best. Blizzard creating areas like this will always remind players of this fact.
There was a horde moonkin ganking and getting the same reaction from the alliance side last night. It goes both ways. I realize it is a game and will/salute the opposing faction when it’s all said and done.
Damn Moonkin! Dont you see?!? This is exactly what Ragnaros wants! you are playing right into his hands.. for shame.
In all seriousness.. Its the few players on each side that step up and fight back that makes world pvp so much more enjoyable then bgs and arenas.
I totally agree. I like the bragging rights, the sense of community and faction pride. Things that get left out in the midst of the grind.
Again, I had a blast killing but there were many good fights and worthy adversaries.
Kill’em all Lufi! Miss ya on ED!
Miss you all too! I don’t miss the drama and the emotional instability of so many there. I miss the uniqueness of Emerald Dream and the good people. <3
Its pretty much swuashed as far as I know, especially since we left the Federation. Few prople moved on from NMM to do thier own thing, but the people that stayed and came to us are a great group! I enjoy WOW again, even though I havnt been on much due to Scuba training!
I left because I work such odd hours now and it is only sensible to be on a west coast server. I had a lot of people I knew here on Ner’Zhul and it’s a nice, smart, fun group.
It might be over (the drama that is) but as far as I can tell it really killed a lot of the fun we all used to have. I will always cherish the times I had there.
Scuba training? NICE! Something I always wanted to do.
I knew thats why you had left, along with the crap from the almighty wanna be god of ED (wont mention a name here, lol, but we both know who he is). But Wpvp is kinda slow there now, I pretty much just do som ganking in FL on my DK trying to stir up some fights but all the horde do now is run in packs, they wont fight unless they have way bigger numbers or you have 8 mobs on you!,lol
But as for the Scuba, its a passion of mine now. I have traveled the world working and competing in freestyle mx world, and I have never enjoyed anything as much as I do diving. So I am working through my certifications to become an instructor. If your interested in getting certified for diving, and arent to far from oklahoma city, we do a 2-day open water certification course. 2 days and your cert. For life!