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I don't think you'll ever enjoy the PVP server aspect if you left it once. You might sneak a few extra levels while everyone rushes to 80, but even AT 80 there is huge amounts of ganking on the island. There is 8v2 roaming gank squads on the island, rogues will kill you over an adamantite deposit, raid guilds will camp a summoning stone and cause 5 group wipes before you get inside a heroic.

If you didn't like leveling on a PVP server, I don't think you'll enjoy being 70 (or 80) on one either.

PvP server for life. Yea it sucks getting ganked and camped while leveling, but when u hit lvl cap and get to go off and do it. Its amazingly fun. Never gets old. ive gotten pretty good at my moonfires, and can keep an alli at 1-5% for awhile (unless moonfire crits then instant death) so they cant quest or log, and if they try to run i kill them. Toying around with people is so much fun.
heh when i first started the game i started an alli on anvilmar.....it sucked got to level 10 an left. I suggest Cho'gall for a PvP server. Its a central server, but very progressed in raids, and good at PvP. Its my server and i would never leave it for any other server.

Edited, Oct 6th 2008 7:57am by Nightslayerquez

I'm on Dark Iron as Horde and enjoy it quite a bit. Long gone are the days from my original MMO game where you could be just close enough to the city limits to yell GUARDS and have the would be attacker rushed into ghost land to sing the ooOOOOoooOOoOOo blues. PvP is fun, pure and simple. There are times where I am just trying to get something done and think I wonder what carebear land is like, but I enjoy PvP too much. I am no good at it, but sometimes when running about it can be fun to knock some alliance toon down.

You could always look at transferring your toon as they have recently opened it up from PvE to PvP. I guess I would say try it out first and start a new toon to see if the taste is still sour. Hillsbrad and STV suck pretty bad in terms of gankage, but if you can get in a decent guild to help level, or make a high ranked friend it becomes cake. And at worst, if someone is camping you, then you just go get a drink and come back in 5. they are not likely to be waiting still.

As I leveled I did experience some gankage. It wasn't fun, but only a couple of times was it over the line camping for no reason. One of those I emoted admitting the alli ??? was superior and wondered if i could just be left to quest and they did. Another a few calls on general chat and I had some backup there to persuade the campers to move on. Its all part of the game imo. To me grinding with out having to look for the incoming red dots on the mini map would be more boring than it already is.

As for end game, I haven't noticed too much of an issue on QD with gankage. There has been some, but it is on both sides and typically not too bad. Too me it seemed like a prison yard, everyone is going about their business and then 2 people from opposing factions go for the same mob or get too close to each other and it starts a fight, then everyone jumps in and all hell breaks loose. There is soo much activity that camping is generally not an issue and revenge can typically be easy and swift. Just make sure you don't wonder too close to the guards after getting your revenge. They are not very forgiving or understanding when you arrive after helping another or getting your revenge.

Overall I would say flat out, either you like PvP or you don't. If you don't then stay out of a PvP server, if you do, then know you have to pay your dues in the leveling process and try to do the gankville's in off hours or with a big squad. I revisit the areas I used to get ganked (or watch others get ganked - stealth FTW!) to keep the circle alive.

I love the PVP servers. There is nothing more satisfying as when a would be ganker dies because you are smarter.

I play on Ysondre server and the amount of ganking I received was minimal, we're still a low pop server and the ratio between the factions is still pretty even.

I wish the server was up, I want to go gank now :(

Once you level past some of the crappy areas it can be enjoyable. Simple fact is on PvP servers you may get ganked... but just the same you may get to gank. It can be a nice break from the grind and to taunt a ganker can be fun too... especially if you leave them looking all over for you and you leave the zone.

A long time back some 70s ganked a friend and camped him and my buddy started to taunt them, then left the zone without them knowing. Go back about 20 minutes later and them player was still running around looking for them. (Was emoting __Player Name__ Come out come out where ever you are... and things like that.) It was hilarious that someone would spend that much time on that.

I didn't have too many issues in STV or hillsbrad until I went with a friend. for the most part it was like, got me once, ok good job. But then if they kept on either it was because I had done something to deserve it (I am no angel) or they were just being a ****. Then I would generally emote something asking them to let me level and they usually would.