Why is griefing fun?

[Taelas]

I absolutely have to disagree on both points.

1) When you roll on a PvP server (assuming you know the difference between the server rulesets) you make a tacit agreement that you're ok with being ganked. You know exactly what you're getting into, and it's the reason you rolled on a PvP server.

2) Gankers are PvP servers. That's the one differnce between the two server types, and to say that gankers ruined PvP servers is like saying roleplayers ruined RP servers.

What the numbnuts in the OP is doing though is circumventing the PvE ruleset to grief someone. That's not cool, but there's a difference between that and ganking someone.

Bull#$%&.

You can have a PvP server where ganking is the exception rather than the rule. It's what should be the norm.

I repeat: The fact that ganking is possible does not make it okay in any way, shape or form.

Reasonable world PvP is a different matter. That's what a PvP server is about: Engaging the other faction in (roughly) fair play. 5 levels do not really matter, neither does whether you're fighting two on one. Them's the breaks.

20 levels, though, or fighting four on one... No.

Ruthlessly slaughtering people who either can't fight back or who's too weak to do so is morally unacceptable. Interrupting others for the sheer purpose of ruining their gameplay is morally unacceptable.

Gankers DID ruin PvP servers. They could be so much better places. On my most recent exploration of a PvP server, I have only engaged in fair world PvP once -- every other time my character has died was due to ganking by ?? level opponents (and who did so while I was fighting mobs).

Fair world PvP is fun, and that is what PvP servers are about. Being ganked is not.