Are sociopaths just the price you play for being on a PVP server?
Since having to transfer from Medivh, I've found life on a PVP server to be fairly dispiriting. There are sufficient numbers of players, almost always playing a rogue, who make it their business to diminish the enjoyment of others. The idea of world PVP is complete bollocks - it's usually one player easily killing another. Not some tactical chess match of equally matched opponents, but some f**k who waits until you're engaged with mobs, or eating/drinking to regain health/mana, and then kills you in seconds. My gear is ****; I die quick. It's not a even a contest. It's just cheap. And even when it's not a rogue (rare), you're reduced to the Prisoner's Dilemna - strike first, or give the other person a huge advantage over you.
I know this is life on a PVP server. But it sucks. Kudos to those players who *could* PVP but when it's damn well clear that someone is just farming or otherwise doing their own thing, then they leave them be.
And yes, I know that I can always quit the server.