Let me start this story by stating that the server that I
play on is a pvp server. I’ve played on this server since it opened up in 2005
and as a result I’ve seen my fair share of world pvp. When I was a young mage
questing in Redridge, it was a common occurrence to have high level horde raid
the town and gank every poor lowbie alliance person they saw. On a pvp server
you often get used to such douche baggery happening and when you are higher
level and able to do something about it, most people often do. I can remember
several pvp battles in Lakeshire, Menethil Harbor, and the ever famous
Southshore. Sometimes the pvp fights were a nice distraction and sometimes they
were a rather large annoyance but being on a pvp server, you knew what you
could expect at any time. To me this made the game a little more deadly and
exciting. Not everyone’s cup of tea I suppose.
Sadly as the years have gone by, my server population went
from medium in vanilla to low in BC and has stayed there since. Every now and
then it’ll pop up briefly to medium before sinking back into its usual low pop
status. What does this mean? Well it means that while leveling a lowbie alt you’re
more likely to see a group of mobs having a naked dance party than seeing a
horde. In fact that’s one of the biggest selling points I tell people on
twitter when I tell them to roll on my server to play with me! This is mostly
true except for poor Megs who kept running into horde who managed to kill her
often. Anyway, because our population is
so low, world pvp doesn’t happen that often. This is great for leveling alts
but bad for people who want to pvp.
