Addendum - Death Rush | 7/20/2004 1:39:39 AM GMTDT
 
This is a new addendum to our PvP policy; please see below for an explanation of the policy and the definitions to newly introduced terms.
A single player or a small group of players that die inside of an enemy city may not death rush more than two times. The defending players that are friendly to the city must fully eradicate the invading players in order to put this policy into effect. This policy does not go into effect if a member of the invading force resurrects dead party members back into the fight, since the party member was not fully eradicated from the area. The defending force must clearly demonstrate control of the area. Players that do not adhere to this policy will be asked to leave the area by a GM, but could be subject to further disciplinary action if the GM’s instructions are not followed. Players must leave the area for a period of no less than one hour. This policy is subject to change in the future, as the PVP rule set may change.
 
Hypothetical Example: Jonny the Undead Mage (Horde) sneaks into Stormwind (Alliance City) with a raiding party. He and his party are able to kill an NPC that is important to the area. The defending Alliance players are able to kill Jonny and his party or force them to leave the immediate perimeter of the city. After Jonny and his party are eradicated, they decide to come back and attack more NPCs (possibly even the same NPC). According to this new addendum, Jonny and the rest of his party are not allowed to return to do this if he and all the members of his raiding party are eradicated twice. However, if Jonny's raiding party was never killed or forced to retreat, Jonny and the rest of his party can continue to fight in the area as long as they please.
 
This policy will be enforced on a case-by-case basis determined by the sole discretion of the GMs. This policy is not intended to prevent legitimate raids on an enemy city. This policy is only designed to address players who continually attack enemy towns by dying and returning to harass/grief other players.
 
PvP concepts will be gradually introduced onto this server. This means that the initial implementations of PvP rules and ideas seen here are not how our final model will work, once World of Warcraft is released. The current version of the game only includes the fundamental ideas of PvP combat; we will continue to tune and refine the very foundation of this PvP model up until release.
 
A city is defined as any region with either Horde or Alliance guards.
 
 
Death rushing is defined as repeatedly returning to an area after being killed.
 
Eradicating is defined as fully defeating an opposing force by either killing the entire raiding party or causing them to retreat to a reasonable distance away from the city.
 
This addendum replaces the one found here: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/thr [...] 0#post4480

Current PvP Issues | 7/8/2004 4:17:13 AM GMTDT
 
 
Hi everyone, I just wanted to post a list of some of the more significant issues we're actively working on so that you're all aware of some of the things that are at the top of our list of things to address one way or another. This list is not all-inclusive, but is meant to hit some of the top things that players have brought up consistently, and that we also feel need to be addressed.
 
PvP Balance:
- Priests are at the top of our list of classes with balance problems. This is a complex issue that includes Holy Word:Shield, general HPS versus DPS, and lots of instant cast offense and defense (note: this isn't meant to imply that the rest of the classes are perfectly balanced).
- General prevalence of instant cast spells/abilties. While we like having a reasonable amount of instant cast, we are investigating whether they're simply too prevalent. We certainly don't want PvP to be "instant-cast only", or nearly so.
- Prevalence of crowd-control and root/snare. Right now there is too much of this stuff. We'll address this issue at least in part in this push with dimishing returns in PvP for some of these spells. More improvements to come later...
- Levels are too impactful in PvP. Right now, levels mean too much in PvP. We'll be altering the way in which character level factors into various calculations for PvP so as to make level differences much more forgiving.
- Prevalence of tracking.
- Channeling spells being too hard to use effectively.
- Engineering skill balance (along with miscellaneous trade skill issues).
 
 
PvP System Issues:
- Lack of a death penalty (we're taking a first step in this push, with a really simple time-out for pvp deaths, refinement to come later).
- Lack of reason to PvP other then "for the heck of it". Reward systems, quests, etc are being designed and implemented to address this.
- Grief-able NPCs. The town guard system is being iterated on and improved considerably. In addition, some NPCs will recieve appropriate increases in level/abilities.
 
Again, the lists go on and clearly the above is a very general summary, but these are some of the top issues that we're going to be addressing over the next several pushes. Please also take note that we recognize that as classes get the talents, we'll also face some significant imbalances both due to the fact that not all classes will have talents at once, and due to the fact that the talents aren't going to be well-balanced in their first iteration.

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