Ganking Archive

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.