Keep Your PVP Out of My PVE
December 03, 2009 :: Posted by - Plectical :: Category - Other
I’m not sure if everyone has seen the Faction Champions fight in Heroic TOGC (25 Man) yet but it’s a dozy. My guild pulled a marathon wipe session last night that left everyone weary and grumbling around 12 AM. What was clear at the end of the night was that there was a small group of players who knew what they were doing and everyone else was pretty much lost.
From time to time in raiding, you’ll come across a fight that heavily tests your PVP skills. It’s an odd marriage since many hardcore PVE raiders don’t necessarily PVP with the same gusto. In practical terms, that means your crack hardcore raiding team is about as useful in this fight as a box of hair.
The confusing part about these PVP encounters is that it tests skills that in most raid encounters would be useless. Thoughtful strategy and in depth raid positioning are valued less than improvisation and positioning on the fly. Its the equivalent of finding a philosophy problem on your calculus test, it just doesn’t fit. After all, you don’t see challenging raid encounters popping up in Warsong Gulch.
Ultimately, if raiders want to PVP we’ll go into BGS or arenas. Blizzard, please keep your PVP out of my PVE.
- Plectical
