Neriad is leaving the Lurking Loungers

[Olon97]

Hardly. There is nothing "carebear friendly" about PvP servers. There are ways to minimize your gankings, of course, by staying in hiding, going to unusual places, constantly rotating the camera, keep your finger on the Vanish button, buy millions of potions, net guns or engineering stuff and all that crap, but even if you do so, you'll get ganked plenty of times. Trying to quest/level in popular places just makes it unplayable. You just can't get anything done, because you always always keep getting killed. Being 48+ is brutal, you're just free honor points for level 60's.

Not sure why our experiences are so different Phoenix. I have a couple other rl friends on my server who play even shorter sessions on Tichnodrius than I do and they have a story about some PvP encounter less than once a week.

I did cap before the honor system went in. I'm sure doing one's 50s outdoors is trickier than it used to be, although I solo/farm in many of the zones a 50 would quest in and still avoid most "Honor" squads. As long as the Battlegrounds give better honor/timethan outdoor kill squads, things will likely calm down quite soon back to dedicated griefers in popular (and predictable) areas.

Another factor on a PvP server is some people have long memories. I'm sure some of my non-encounters are due to leaving other people's low level alts alone when I passed them by, and by my guild not being particularly notorious (and by playing mostly female toons - chivalry still has a mild pulse). Join a KoS guild, or partake in the ganking yourself, and Karma will find its way to you.

I've seen the impact of Honor on some of the PvE servers some of my other friends are playing on, and in my opinion, the inability to turn in quests due to the other faction repeatedly ganking NPCs in the hopes of raising PvP flagged enemies looks far more annoying than the rare unfortunate PvP encounter in the wild.

I still would reccomend PvP servers to those less bloodthirsty / massochistic out there, with the single caveat: adapt. I suppose if I hadn't seen the popular areas during Beta I would want some PvE time on a toon eventually just to see certain parts of the world that are annoying to visit alone on a PvP server (Hillsbrad).