bgredsox wrote:
Add to this for "In-game": Do some PvP. I am teh suk at PvP.
Bet I'm "suckier" than you at PvP. (Why am I bragging about this?
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Interesting to come across this today. I never played on a PvP server in EQ, in fact I never even created a character on one. I'm not a real skilled gamer as in knowing the quick keyboard moves, strafing, etc. so I know I'd be killed constantly in PvP. Plus the whole concept just doesn't interest me.
So I'm merrily questing along in the Outlands last night; well as much as one can *be* merry when in a place that looks like I've landed in hell...and I get this quest called "Hellfire Fortifications" that requires me to "capture" three towers. After finding the first tower and killing all NPCs in the area and nothing happens re: the quest log, I'm wondering, "Ok, how do I "capture" these towers?" I look up the quest with my trusty Google and.....ARRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! I have to stand by the flag in each tower AND be flagged PvP. This is not going to end well.
Yanno, if I wanted to play PvP I'd flag myself PvP or play on a PvP server. At any rate, I go find the flag, set myself as PvP, start watching the bar move from Horde to Alliance and WHAM!! Dead. Killed by some level 66 player who I never even saw. (I was level 61 at the time.) Grumbling all the way back to my corpse I'm thinking...I'm going to have to do this quest at like 4 am on a weeknight when no one is in the zone...lol.
Get back to my corpse and there's my "assassin" running circles around the area, just waiting for me to rez to kill me again. All I wanted was to rez and get out of there and do that quest much later, but this dude is standing there obviously waiting for me to rez. So, I click off the PvP flag and decide not to rez until the 5 minutes have gone by and he can't kill me. I wasn't sure if people can see one's "ghost" but to test it out I climbed up to where he was and stood in front of him. He moved away - I followed; he started his running circles routine and bouncing all around again - a tip off that he's likely young (endless jumping and circle running I've come to associate with teens). Apparently he got tired of waiting for me to rez and finally left. When I was no longer PvP I rezzed, healed up and was going to move on to another quest, but heard the shout that the next area had been taken by the Alliance. I raced over there; sure enough the flag was blue. Quickly put on PvP and somehow was able to "capture" that area. Now that I see how this goes, I went to the next location and a level 85 appeared to turn the flag from red to white. (Not sure if he was a GM or just a coincidence.) Since I wouldn't have to stand there as long decided to go for that one, but tested a theory. Instead of standing by the flag, thus painting a virtual target on my back, I hid in a crevice of the area, turned on the PvP flag and YES!!! The meter began counting down. Got that one!!!
With my new-found strategy I was able to complete the quest! However, this episode just underscored for me that I reaaaaaaaalllllllly dislike PvP and "I'm the major suk" at it!!!!