Thursday, October 22, 2009

I've been ganked!

So I was doing my Sons of Hodir dailies on Julep this morning on Archimonde.  Suddenly, a warrior runs up and ganks me.  I rezzed, and he got me a few more times, and it was pretty bad.  He was using Berserker Rage, so spent a lot of time immune to fear, and I just couldn't get him off of me with that big 2-hander.  I thought about switching to my Affliction off-spec, but I'm not sure that would have helped me.  Without fear to maintain distance, warriors and rogues can ruin a warlock's day pretty quick.  I need to get in the habit of keeping a Demonic Circle dropped so I can get some range at all times.

My policy has been to leave other people alone if they're not bothering me, while I learn the etiquette of the new environment I'm in.  My son says he's been jumped quite a few times, so if there's a code of conduct about corpse-camping and repeated ganks, I'm not seeing it.  I don't want to reflect poorly on my guild, but I'm thinking if I see someone down on health, I'm taking a shot.



It did slow me down a great deal.  I had to rez, re-buff and look for a safe spot, and he kept finding me.  On one hand, a PvP server is a more honest version of the game.  The Alliance and the Horde are at war, so jumping others when you find them alone seems a natural thing to do.  *I* play alone a great deal of time, though.  My son is on the west coast, and the morning is when I usually do most of my dailies, and there aren't a lot of people around to group up with.  When Kyle gets stationed on a ship, he won't be able to play much for a while, and then I'll really be isolated.


It is a bit more exciting on a PvP server, though.  When I do dailies on Steamwheedle Cartel, it's just a matter of how much time will it take me.  On Archimonde, I'm finding I may not be able to work in a certain area, and I may have to come back.  It's no fun being on the short end of the stick all the time though.  If I can't dish it out, I'm not going to take it.

Skulfrak is still my main toon, and he's gone so far, I hate to keep going back and covering the same ground I've already gone over.  He still has a lot left to do, but at some point, I'd like to have one character that's really accomplished a lot, and that's Skul.  I'm going to keep working with Julep, but I think I'm going to keep the main focus on Skulfrak.

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