A Marksman Snob goes Beta PvP'ing

[Kevin]

Avoid the zone?

So simply close off PvE content to PvE players that don't like to PvP? If the zone has zero PvE content sure that works, but otherwise I'm not so sure.



Now as to my personal opinion. I like a bit of world PvP that has meaning. Since dishonorable kills have no penatly the X-roads is once again constantly flattened by alliance, no flight master, most of the quest givers killed. It's really rather annoying on a PvE server and the only reason to do it is to have fun at the expense of other players who may take no pleasure in what you are doing no matter what side of the issue they are on. If I wanted to deal with my quest NPC's being dead all the time I would play on PvP server. If I wanted to grief other players and fight them for resources I would play on a PvP server.

I don't mind the world PvP stuff as implemented now, though it is a bit too tame and pointless still. Collecting the spice in Sillyfuss (OK Silcyst or whatever they changed the Dune reference too) can be fun. Taking the towers in the plaguelands is mostly too non interactive to be interesting. I'll have to see the value of holding the town in TBC. And how much PvE content not having the town will cut out. Current world PvP objectives impact PvE very little. There are all of 2 quests associated with it and while the buffs help grinding/instancing, they don't make much of a difference. That may not be the case with this new content. There could be some very fun PvE quest chains after you get the rep. If the PvP just allows you to get the rap faster and there are other ways to get the rep to unlock stuff no problem. This of course may not be the case.

And this of course is part of the problem with world PvP. Most of what Blizzard has done they have actually tried to make it so that it doesn't impact PvE too much but that makes it pretty weak on the reward side. Something like this on a server with a 1:1 pop balance could be really quite a fun little diversion to do every now and then. But the issue of course is that for horde it generally won't be fun as even if you take the place with most server populations you generally know that you will be out numbered 2 or 3 to 1 very quickly.