Afternoon Anecdotal

Well, last night I was out in Howling Fijord with my leveling partner and friend's enhancement shaman. Now, understand that my friend and I have leveled our fair share of character's together, each being quite familiar with the other's play style.

Usually, of the two of us it is I that engages in any leveling-related world PvP as I am a huge fan of world PvP and think it is one of the best parts of the game. (Note that I said, world PvP and not ganking/camping, I feel there is a difference.) We happen upon a level 71 human warrior, where my friend (who is throughly enjoying his enhancement shaman) initiates a conversation that goes something like this:

"Hey look, there's a warrior"

"That is in fact a warrior."

"Let's get him"

At which point we attack, only to discover that he has gone AFK. Staying true to our horde roots, we finish the deed, and proceed to continue with whatever quest we were working on. Flash forward, about 30 minutes, and we bump into this warrior again, while doing a quest. Conversation follows,

"Hey look, there's a warrior."

"Isn't that the warrior we killed awhile ago?"

"I think so."

"Let's get him."

So we killed him. No more that 3-4 minutes later, we are greeted by a level 80 Arcane mage, who promptly dismounts from his red dragon, blows all of his cooldowns, and melts our faces into steaming pools of self righteousness. We notice his guild tag is similar to that of our most recent victim, and accept the vengence killing. (Which we felt settled the matter.)


Boy were we wrong. Said mage and warrior camped us for the next hour. We would res and escape to move on to a different quest hub, only to be tracked down 10-15 minutes later to be camped again. Now I am quite sure that the first round of killings more than satisfied whatever life debt we had accrued with above referenced warrior. I was wrong. I was very, very wrong.