Dear Poncho

[SaucySam]

While I understand that officially you may need to deny it, when you dispel a druid and then mez and snare them in a totally empty area except for the 4 mobs they are quad kiting so that they take an xp death it seems like you are trying a little to hard to make friends. While accidents do happen, usually a friendly tell apologizing for the xp death goes a long way rather then your partner Godly nuking down the person 50 ft away at their bind point 30 seconds after said xp death. I realize that I don't have much experience as a druid, or with pvp, or much gear, etc but I will try harder to give you a fun fight next time. If that is not your main character I would also love to know what other guilds you are in so that the spirit of friendly competition can remain unchecked. Happy Hunting!

Stampede <Thunderdome>

[Mus3t11]

Bobby doing the work of southern immigrants.

[Ragnaros]

PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANCHO

[iruinedyourday]

sounds like you got "Stampeded"

[Doctor Jeff]

In pvp, CCing your opponent leads to victory. CC is PVP.

[SaucySam]

I guess I don't fully understand the rules, or lack of rules on this server then. For example would CC'ing the healers of another guild while they are engaging in a big raid fight be considered pvp?

[Videri]

Originally Posted by SaucySam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I guess I don't fully understand the rules, or lack of rules on this server then. For example would CC'ing the healers of another guild while they are engaging in a big raid fight be considered pvp?

Yes, absolutely. There is no rule saying "Once a player(a) engages a mob, they are not to be attacked until they have finished it." The force engaging the raid mob would be expected to be aware of others entering the zone, and to protect themselves and their healers. Basically, the tank and healers should remain focused on the mob, and the DPS should turn their attention to the attackers.

Also, you should be wearing enough MR gear to resist bard mez and snare. You should get to at least 100 unbuffed, and at that point I think you can reasonably expect to resist his MR debuff Fufil's Curtailing Chant, which he would use before snare. Once you get in range to 60, though, you'll need more MR to balance out Occlusion of Sound.

If you currently can't resist bard mez or Fufil's/snare, then anytime you see a potential threat in the zone, you can't just continue to PvE. You should be alert and be ready to break it off if Pancho or anyone in range approaches or starts casting on you. This is not blue - other people would love to kill you (not because they hate you, just because they enjoy it) and you should not make it easy for them by letting them catch you with your pants down.

You do have /who bound to movement keys and a dedicated chat box for /who, right?

[SaucySam]

I guess I didn't understand the server rules very well, I think I took the policy a little to literally then.

"Intentionally causing experience-loss to other players in the PvP environment is illegal in all cases."
"Much like how the Kill Stealing rule applies to those on the blue servers, this rule is designed to discourage and make note of those who do it habitually, thus betraying the spirit of PvP." - PvP policy.

I might have read to much into this policy then, since 'accidental' xp deaths seem to be a normal practice which I guess I just haven't seen that much of yet.

I guess kudos are in order for Poncho for his smart use of the environment and more importantly making it look like an 'accident'.

[Xaanka]

Originally Posted by SaucySam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I guess I didn't understand the server rules very well, I think I took the policy a little to literally then.

"Intentionally causing experience-loss to other players in the PvP environment is illegal in all cases."
"Much like how the Kill Stealing rule applies to those on the blue servers, this rule is designed to discourage and make note of those who do it habitually, thus betraying the spirit of PvP." - PvP policy.

I might have read to much into this policy then, since 'accidental' xp deaths seem to be a normal practice which I guess I just haven't seen that much of yet.

I guess kudos are in order for Poncho for his smart use of the environment and more importantly making it look like an 'accident'.

just so you know, the way this rule and most of the other rules work on p99 is that unless a gm/guide is watching it happen, or you are recording a clear FRAPS video, the rule doesn't exist. some of the rules are about things the GM's can investigate with chat/combat logs and figure out, but exp loss isn't one of them. and this rule's mostly about training dungeons with feign death and stuff like that, fighting someone who's quadding and losing the last hit to mobs isn't always intentional yknow? most players will even go out of their way to try to get killed by the mobs instead of the player to avoid yellow-texts if they know they're dead, because exp deaths aren't really that big of a deal.

red server's a lot more fun when you realize all of that and don't expect the rules to ever be reliably enforced

[Tassador]

This is what the server is reduced to people crying about intentional exp deaths, pvp and all the lamers calling lns. I only log on my multiple fungus covered Alts to kill newbs. It's all red has left bunch of crybaby nerds trying to max out chars in spin quest