Karen Is Tired of Ganking

Stop it! Undead people of the Horde, just stop it! How is it even fun for you to materialize out of nowhere and kill players who are forty levels below you? You don't get any experience points. You don't get to loot our bodies. All you get is the sick satisfaction of knowing that you're interfering with our enjoyment of the very game you love so much. What gives? It is seriously un-sportsmanlike, and it makes me furious. Nick says that ganking is kind of like hazing, except that it goes on forever. Not looking forward to that. I've been playing for a few weeks now, and I've built up a decent character. But I'm switching to a different server and starting over because I'm tired of getting attacked while I'm minding my own business trying to complete a quest. I've got my hands full with the NPCs as it is. As if the firebolts from the baby dragon whelps and the relentless pecking of the dire condors weren't enough, we get undead meanies springing from thin air and ganking us, too? Not cool. Oh, and check it out. Sometimes high-level players do something called 'corpse camping,' which means they wait around by your corpse for you to resurrect so they can kill you again. That's real mature, guys. You are bad people, all of you.

I realize that players on both sides do this kind of thing, but my only experience is wandering around Lakeshire as a level 17 Alliance human and getting killed every few minutes by the Horde for no reason. This is what I get for being ambitious, I guess. And sure, it's partly my fault. I didn't really understand the full implications of being on a PVP server. I figured there was some sort of honor system (and I understand there used to be), by which players would leave you alone if you were way below their level. And even if this wasn't the case, I figured I wouldn't encounter the PVP stuff until I reached much higher levels. I didn't expect to get ganked at level 17. I mean, really. Level 17? It's like killing a puppy.

The thing is, why not just leave me be? You were once a newbie like me. (Old man, look at my life. I'm a lot like you were.)

Science News

After examining a computed tomographic scan of Tutankhamun's head several months ago, scientists have determined that he was not ganked.