The Lurkers on Tich

[Artega]

MJ everyone except you thinks carebear is offensive. I'm a pvper and I still think carebear is offensive

The fact that it's common has no bearing on its force. "Noob" is common and offensive. So (in a gaming context) is "gay"

If it's the typing that's the concern, just use PvEer which is shorter than carebear anyway
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I don't. Then again, I'm a total PvP whore and have thrown carebear around frequently. We already went through this when I threw the Dreaded Word™ around a month or two ago. You would have thought people would have noticed and possibly learned something about throwing might-be-insults around indiscriminately.

Anyway, if you're moving from an OMGCAREBEAR server to an ZOMGGANKED server, get used to seeing the Spirit Healer. You'll be fighting a mob or group of mobs, a fight that strained you to your very best, using all of your timers and your entire bag of tricks, and there will be an Alliance or Horde <expletive deleted> ready to kill you moments before you kill your target(s). You will have the objective of your escort quests killed. Repeatedly. You will be camped. You will be spit on and laughed at.

But you will be able to turn the tables on a would-be ganker possibly many levels higher than you, either killing him yourself or forcing him into a situation ending in his or her demise. You will have the opportunity to join a group of your enraged comrades in purging the ideologically-opposed filth from YOUR zone.

Get used to using duct tape to keep your keyboard and mice in working condition. Consider replacing wireless mice and keyboards with wired counterparts, preferably nailed to your desk. You will scream, you will rant, and you will quite possibly want to physically hurt someone or something at some point in your PvP career. But I've yet to find a more enjoyable facet of WoW than by grouping up with complete (albeit similarly enraged) strangers in a band of unholy death, cleansing MY zone of the genetically-impure Alliance scum.

So, I leave you with this:

YMMV.