Dear Jimika from the Mages of Tirisfal

Dear Jimika from the Mages of Tirisfal. 

I met you for the first time yesterday, when I was riding through the Badlands with my lower-level character. You, a “skull” Tauren warrior, had challenged a level 42 dwarf paladin to a duel. She had misclicked and accepted. I was very impressed that she, a protection paladin, survived as long as she did and made a sizable chunk disappear from your health pool.

But inevitable happened and you won, I hope this victory made you very proud. I rode on – but you soon caught up with me. You tried to annoy me by riding at the same spot, and then you thought that I am after Loch Modan animals so you rode ahead and killed them before I got close.

But I was not after the animals. I was just riding to Thelsamar – and unwittingly I led you there.

You started with killing off the flight master. Then you continued killing the guards and other NPC’s – all around level 30, non-elites. This was a bit too much.

Loch Modan is a low-level alliance/dwarven area – and Thelsamar is the hub. As such, more than half of Thelsamar NPC’s are trainers and quest-givers. And while raids are perfectly okay, killing trainers, quest-givers and flight masters definitely isn’t.

Although Delianna was in Northrend, I was able to get there in a few minutes. You were still on your rampage, killing off everything you could – including level 9…14 players, who weren’t smart enough to avoid you and got the PvP flag.

Whatever moral quarrels I had, they ended right there and then. You were level 70 warrior, I had two levels on you – but I dislike PvP with rogue and suck at it in any case. Also, I hadn’t gone to the trainer – so, for all purposes I considered it a fair fight.

Of course, being a rogue, I stealthed and then… what usually happens, when a stealthed rogue attacks a warrior? Yes, you died, I was barely hurt.

I thought that it was the end of that – but apparently you had other ideas. As soon as you resurrected, you attacked me. Considering that you have 4400 HK’s according to Armory, I would have thought you to be a bit more knowledgeable and able fighter. Warrior has a chance against rogue, if he gets to rogue first (or has a far superior gear) – and that chance is greatly diminished after 3.0.2 when rogues got Dismantle.

So, you died again. Long story short, I killed you five times, giving every time you a chance to go away – but you just wanted to mindlessly kill those low-level NPC’s. I really started to think that all the stories about the thickness of Tauren skulls are true – when you finally got it and left.

This is the third time in a week when I see high-level Horde character rampaging in the low-level Alliance area. Why? Does it make you feel powerful that you can kill characters with forty to sixty level differences? Is it a bragging right – Hey! I killed a level 30 non-Elite!! Ain’t I just the best playa eva?! What is the point?

This is RP server. If you want to raid, do it in RP-style – and to a place with your level enemies. Avoid quest-givers as much as possible – there is an excellent sticky thread by a Horde player about RP raiding. If you want PvP – hey, guess what? We have battlegrounds, Arena and open-air areas for PvP. Not to mention, there is always an option to move to PvP server.
But do not ruin the lives of low-level characters, many of who are new to World of Warcraft.