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Sahuagin posted...

well that's what a PvE server is.

Except not, because there's virtually no world PvP on PvE servers because of the opt-in approach.

Sahuagin posted...

"harassed by" doesn't enter into it; if that's what you call it then you're signing up for the wrong thing.

That was the vast majority of my PvP experience on PvP servers: Some bored person camping the corpses of whoever he could find, usually with enough of a level and/or gear advantage that the only chance of getting out of it was rezzing at the graveyard and going somewhere else (and incurring a pretty substantial penalty in the process), hoping somebody stronger came along who decided to care (pretty rare), or begging for help in the local channel. "Harassed by" is a perfectly accurate description of that.

Like Clench said, a good world PvP experience depends on a careful balance of players: Too few (my experience, for the most part), and the occasional bored ganker just makes everyone's leveling experience miserable because the area doesn't end up being enough of a battleground for stronger players to have genuine competition. Too many, and it's just a mess and you never feel like you're personally making any difference in the fight. I like the idea of organic, large-scale PvP, but more often than not, what actually ended up happening just made the game more tedious, not more enjoyable.

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