Spooncraft

I recently had to give a crash course to a friend of mine on the Isle of Quel’danas and the Sunwell dailies. As typical of any PVP server, the sunwell isle is pretty much a major hotbed of world PVP where you play hide from the guards and stay away from the forest or beach. So having to explain the scene like I was letting a new prison inmate know about gang territories and what he can and cannot use, I thought this would make a good post.

Step 1: Know your strengths. This is like arena 2v2 training practice that isn’t boring. Before you head out into the field, make sure you both are ready to go with all cooldowns ready and any reagents you might need. Hotkey or move around any PVP abilities you can use and try to push most raid or group buffing buttons to the wayside for now. The mobs are pretty fragile as is, gearing and prepping for PVP won’t lessen your chances to kill the crackhead elves in the forest.

Step 2: Communicate always! Keep your buddy in the constant know of your quest status, ask almost every time until you’re both in a solid and strong rhythm to make sure you’re not lingering in one hot spot too long simply because both of you thought the other wasn’t finished yet. Call out incomings as well, if you see an enemy player make sure your buddy is aware of them too. Try to not linger after a kill or after a quest is done, camping and griefing is pretty shitty and I don’t condone it. But killing a player and then attacking him again when he’s weak (so he can run away) so you can safely make your exit is perfectly fine.

Step 3: Don’t be a victim! If you see an enemy player running towards you, expect to be attacked 99% of the time. If you see a priest in shadow form, just kill it, chances are you’re going to be dotted to shit in a few seconds and spammed with cheap ass mindflay. If you find a rogue stealthed walking near you KILL IT WITH FIRE. Rogues typically don’t walk around in slowed stealth mode unless they’re looking for a soft target or trying to get away from the action, either way it bodes trouble and like roaches where there’s 1 there’s usually 20 more waiting in the shadows. I’m not saying to go full bore and start picking fights, but keep yourself in an assertive stance rather than just trying to get by and having to defend yourself every 5 seconds.

Step 4: Make your presence known. If it’s quiet and there aren’t many players around, make noise. If you see an enemy player fighting an NPC, kill their NPC for them, and do it as loud and massive as possible. In most cases you’ll run into a player that’s just trying to quest like you are, the rest are just there to be dicks. Killing their mob and showing them that you’re there to fight NPCs not players, and then showing that in a very short time you can burst some very dangerous damage; is a big deterrent.

Now I’m all for PVP and world PVP in general, but sometimes the piggy bank needs a little refilling and being shut down and cut off while trying to farm can turn a night of gameplay into hours and hours of running to your corpse. And even if you do manage to escape and show your mad skills, you’ve failed in your original goal to make money.