Things won't change after the wedding

I think I have an inkling of one aspect of what it's like to be in an abusive relationship. It's very common for a person in an abusive relationship to want to go back to their the abuser if they have left. There were always good times to remember and maybe that's what brings them back. Maybe it's the comfort of knowing the status quo versus establishing new relationships. Well here it is: I kinda miss PvP.

I played first on a PvE server during one of my many 10-day free trials. I played a Horde char and was astonished to see an Alliance player in Ratchet, which I mistakenly thought was for Horde chars only. The little human char was running around, going to the same quest givers and same shops I did and it just seemed wrong. Obviously, I now know that Ratchet isn't just for Horde but this single incident helped me choose PvP when it came time to make a real account. It just seemed to go with the game better. There are two sides that are warring and it makes sense that when they see each other they should fight. Let's not confuse this with role playing, which I berated in the earlier post, PvP just makes sense... sort of in the same way that using a cat as a melee weapon doesn't make sense.

I already admitted to Kelviel, who is now Buru, that I feel like I'm cheating in a way. I run through areas that are wrought with Alliance and no one bats an eyelash. I still /rude to a lot of Alliance and few do anything back. There's no built up animosity. They even jump in and help me when I have links.

Having said all of this, there is still an abusive side to PvP. Griefers. Typically, when I played on PvP, I didn't kill players that were grey to me unless they threatened me (maybe farming what I was farming or waiting until I was low health to attempt killing me)or were a nuisance (off topic: I correctly pegged this word's etymology as Old French). O sure. I've had occasional spats of ganking retribution, (e.g. you killed my low level char so here comes my level 70 druid to stealth kill you), but for the most part I will leave them alone. Griefers are the asshats that kill you then corpse camp you. They are there to cause you grief. These bitches are equivalent to hackers in my mind's eye. They're intentionally malicious yet reap no benefit of seeing the frustration or damage caused. They make me want to create a second account and pay $15 a month just to have a horde char on my same server to tell them to knock it the fuck off. You have to remember that there is someone on the other side of that character that just wants to spend some leisure time playing a game. Kill me once? Great! That's how the game is. Hang around to kill me a second time when I did nothing to you? Super shitty and someone in real life needs to beat the piss outta you.

I digress. I do enjoy certain aspects of my new PvE. No interference is priceless. You want to complete a quest? There is no worrying about how many Alliance are there already doing a quest. They won't kill you. I still get to PvP in BG's so I'm not totally missing out on the warring aspect. All-in-all, the new server is saving me a lot of stress so it's fine by me.