Your personal rules of random PVP?

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Generally, I'm in the same boat as Tal.  I fight when it's a choice by both sides and I do defend the weak.  Case in point, some weeks back Horde were assaulting Darkshire.  As I arrived in Darkshire, the Horde were returning to SoS.  I had decided that I would go out and farm the Warlocks in Deadwind for the +Str bracer enchant.  On my way, I had a couple of Horde in front of me, about 10 levels below me.  All of the sudden a lv 20 NE Warrior was running back to Darkshire with his flag up from chasing Horde further ahead.  The lv 50 Shaman decided to hit said lv 20 with a Frost Shock and then hit him with something else and he died.  At that point, I attacked the Shaman and decimated him for his cowardly act of attacking someone 30 levels below him.  If the Shaman had minded his own business and kept retreating instead of attacking the Warrior, I would have not bothered, but the Shaman decided that someone 30 levels lower was good sport.  Said Shaman learned what it's like then an there what it feels like to be ganked by someone higher level (atleast the Shaman was still green to me, unlike the Warrior which was grey to the Shaman).  The Shaman had an Undead Mage with him that tried to fight me, but when I laid the DoTs on him for attacking me first, he promptly decided that sheeping and running was the better course of action, and with that I let him run (my DoTs didn't kill him).

To me, it's more about fair play than anything else (and yes, I know there's nothing fair in war, but, this is not war, this is a game for enjoyment).
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Well said, Lissa. I'm a little reluctant to chime in on this topic, as I am most certainly a n00b, having bought the game and started playing in July of this year. However, I will at least share my very first PvP experience I ever had. I play horde on Terenas, and am quite busy with the Lurkers guild there, which has been great. Early on, when I was somewhere near the level of 25 (ish), a troll rogue friend and I were out duoing in Thousand Needles, when we encountered two higher levelled alliance humans. Both were flagged, and we were not. (PvE server). They proceeded to taunt us relentlessly, follow us around, etc. Finally, one challenged the rogue with me to a duel, which was fine. They duelled, and my rogue friend lost the duel. We went on our merry way. An hour later, we happend to pass these same two fellows again, and my troll friend wanted to rematch the duel. However, he hit the wrong button, and instead of issueing a duel challenge, he flagged himself. Well, the humans instantly ganged up on him, and killed him in about 3 seconds, and then proceeded to spit on me, fart on me, make rude gestures, all those fun things the game allows you to do. I was wise enough not to flag myself, and they finally went away. My point is......I think what Tal and Lissa said about this thread makes alot of sense. I try nowadays not to prey on opposing players more than a few levels below my level. The exception is in Arathi Basin, or Warsong Gulch Battlegrounds, and we're all within 10 levels of each other anyway. There was some frustration expressed earlier in this thread about cannibalizing, corpse-camping, etc. But it has been my experience that most folks on Terenas are pretty good about being fairly straight-forward about the PvP stuff. If you take a look at Vor-Lord's thread on the Insane Cloth Posse, you'll read about a human Paladin who seemed bent on destroying all of us poor level 8 cloth wearers, but at the same time, we weren't flagged when we first encountered him, so that will give you an idea of who initiated that fight. ;) I second Lissa's thought that this game is for having fun. Not creating drama. :P Enjoy, and if I cannibalize you someday....well, I probably was needing to heal, and that's a very cheap, non-bandage way to replenish life. :D