Hello dear Warmane Staff,
Recently I tried making a new character and level it up freshly on the Icecrown realm. While it was fun questing at start later on I stumbled upon one little issue - enemy players. Knowing I was playing on a PvP realm I decided to avoid contact in order to stay alive, but nontheless they did not think that way and I got killed. 20 times before they left my corpse. This was when I was still level 50 in a contested area. Anyways, I completed one quest after dying 22 times. Later on I leveled up to 60 and entered Outland and even had saved up money for flying! Yes! No more ganking! Well ... no ... Druids and Mages ... whole Honor Hold was flooded with Horde rogues and the questing areas were filled with 80lvls ... so ... after some mob farming I went to level with quests in the neighbouring zone and reached quite fast to level 68 (a horde player actually assisted me in making the Arena Quests). After that I went to Northrend and the same thing as Honor Hold applied here, but this time waaay more persistent. I got farmed for like 2 hours straight and when people came to help - three to four more Horde players came to farm and shame them ... In the end - I just stopped leveling.
Now for all of you who would say something like:
- You could've just switched zones - I did, but almost the same result after some time
- You could've just leveled up with RDF - I am a DPS and as such the queue time is huge (and you can't just force people to not quest)
- You could've switched to a different character - And then what? The point is making a character and level it up normally.
None of the listed above issues can be fixed with a measily ban on the players that harras and disrup gameplay ... Just let players have the freedom to level up undisturbed because I've seen this behaviour in both sides be it Alliance and Horde and although it is quite profitable for people to pay to level up instead of being shamed like that - I doubt that's the point of the realm ...
This did sound like a little rant but in my oppinion most players currently in Icecrown shouldn't be allowed to slay enemy players as they like. There are a lot of minuses on the PvE side of a realm like contesting resourses becomes hard, but I'd rather have my Iron Vein getting stolen than a 80lvl killing me for being near an Iron Vein ...