PvP

[Mavfin]

1. I am not "stressed out." I am commenting on a problem which exists.
2. Am I whining? If so, then please explain to me how to state an opinion without whining.
3. Most of the discussion here has been about the griefing which I brought up. The lag which I mentioned in my initial post has not been discussed.  The lag is not an advertised feature of the game. The lag can make the game unplayable. It will extend throughout an entire zone, and possibly (I am not certain about this.) into zones adjacent to the zone where a large PvP battle is occurring.
4. It is of interest to me that the most vocal objections to my point of view about PvE servers come from a player whose characters are all on PvP servers.
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Now you're making generalizations and coming close to attacking someone for differing with your opinion. I play on PvE servers pretty much exclusively, and I disagree with your viewpoint, I just don't say it in the same way as the other person.

As far as the lag because of people in the zone, that's mostly on your end, i.e. loading lag, and can be solved by more RAM in your box. I see very little of this kind of lag. Don't make PvP the issue for lag, please.

One person up the thread made the point that Blizzard has *always* said that PvP would exist on the PvE servers as a voluntary thing, so, if you want to fuss about PvP being on them, it's a little late. You knew it was there when you started. However, I do think that you should give it a week or two to settle down and get the first rush of honor kills out of the way, as I don't think it will continue at the level of the past few days indefinitely.

Even at the height of the raiding in SS, I was able to transact business and turn in quests in Southshore just fine, thank you, on my PvE server, even though there was Horde and Alliance players fighting all over the place just up from the inn.

I'm afraid you have two choices, realistically. Deal with it, or don't, and go elsewhere. You can talk about Blizz doing something else, but I don't see that happening for quite a while.

I have also been known to log into a scrap char I keep on each server of the other faction, log into it, and PM the player who's doing the camping and ask them to leave off so I can quest. I remind them that camping the same quest NPC over and over is against the rules, and that I will report them if they continue. Either they quit, or I get STFU or worse, and report them for that, too. No need for that behavior. No, it doesn't fix the problem immediately, but it takes time for the word to get out that you're not supposed to do that, and if you do nothing about it, then nothing ever changes.

One or two kills of a quest NPC, or several kills by different players/groups of players? No problem. It's the camping I'll say something about, but, I've only done the above process twice.

Killing guards to precipitate a fight? Not a problem, go for it. Whack the quest NPC/Merch to get someone to come out and defend? Fine. Just do it once or twice and find another target, please.