Wintergrasp Rant

[Bob the Beholder]

No, we were all around the same level. The highest was probably ~55, still nothing more than a speed bump for a Tier geared lvl70 rogue.

I don't know if it is like this in every lowbie zone, but last night, while leveling my new troll druid, I kept finding Troll guards that were lvl90 elites. I truly hope that EVERY lowbie zone now has guards that will always be 5 levels higher. It really is incredibly frustrating to watch the big dumb 80 burn down your quest givers and mobs.

I think this must just be on a person to person basis. Personally, I thought it was hilarious when high levels ran through STV or Badlands or Tanaris. Not because it was great that people were dying, but because the sorts of players that do that for extended periods of time are absolutely terrible. And they're so over confident that the players they're fighting are just lowbie speed bumps who will sit down and die that they barely even use what skill they have.

On my first run to 60, me and my friend who were levelling together went totally nuts on the 60s in STV. We alternated fear and frost nova to lock them down and absolutely humiliated a couple dozen terrible paladins, rogues and warriors.

Even later, when I was levelling alts solo, as an experienced end game pvper, I ground these peoples' faces into the dirt. I rarely actually killed them, but they didn't get me very often either. They usually gave up in disgust after a while, because I know how to avoid damage.

For example, there was a level 70 rogue by the name of Xenocider on Gorefiend, when I was levelling my hunter and warrior through STV. Xenocider, even back when he was 60, and again when he was 80, spent almost every day riding circles around STV killing everyone he saw. Literally, 8 to 10 hours a day. Dude must have either been some sort of mental deficient, or just incredibly dedicated to dropping the horde levelling population.

I actually killed him twice on my hunter, at level 37. It wasn't that hard, he didn't have the experience to shadowstep onto a moving target without falling out of melee range, and didn't bother to use sprint until he was just about down.

I didn't kill him on my warrior, but, yes, as a warrior, I kited him from the Nesingwary Camp all the way to Grom'Gol three times. That was rough in places, but clever use of intimidating shout and knowing that if I intercept him I have three seconds where he isn't dodging my hamstring made the deal.

I'm not even going to get into the carnage that resulted from leveling my druid. Low level feral druids are unstoppable juggernauts.

It gets frustrating sometimes, (instant dots that do more damage than your hp, etc.) but I've leveled so many characters on a pvp server, that I guess I'm just used to and experienced in getting out of the bad situations, or avoiding them entirely, and supplying aneurysms to the perpetrators of the better situations.