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Your report won't do anything, the pvp is an abomination atm, during china hours you have 10 dudes afking since start, ending 15+ minute games with 0-0-0 score, it's clear there is no intend to do anything about these problems. Edit: Afking is not something tied exclusively to the chinese players, i've met quite a lot who run decent premades and do their best in pugs, it's just more prevalent during china active hours.

R10 upgraded gear would increase PVP activity among non-hardcore rankers, which in turn would make it easier for R14 pushers to achieve their goal. Enabling it would not break PVE in any way, as it's inferior to most raid gear available now. Definitely no harm done if something like this happens.

First off, let's try and keep this separate from the releasing pvp sets earlier suggestions. From the info i gathered, WSG leg slot items are to be released with the 1.11 patch. Seeing as AB items are coming next patch (they are, right?), with some really powerful caster items (staff which is better than anything in MC, it's a slightly downgraded Nef staff), why not release the rest of the WSG items as well and help the other classes? Power of these items is in line with the current progression, some would never even see play. Caster cloth is basically worse than preraid BIS blues, "rogue" leather is worse than T2 Bloodfang, and i'm guessing hunter chain would see some play until people have full T2. Both "druid" leather and paladin plate would be the only properly stated hybrid items at this point, making them desirable for anyone wanting to try some "offspec" builds, seeing as hybrid classes won't be seeing any items until 2.5 sets and the upgraded pvp sets. Warrior pants might be a bit on the strong side, as there are currently no crit/hit pants with that amount of str on them, but since fury get nothing from tiered sets it's fair to toss them a bone as well, besides getting exalted with WSG is no small task for non-ranking players, it's a fair reward for all the time invested. It's my belief that this small change will increase the amount of people wanting to pvp, give premades a larger pool of players to work with and provide good rewards for non-ranking players who want to set smaller goals unlike the R14 grind. So, is there any incentive to push for this or am i alone in this line of thought?

Holy paladin, 100% mount, pretty good gear (T1,T2), looking for a chill premade group that does BGs on a daily basis, anything from 100-300k honor weekly, maybe even more. Willing to learn, improve, communicate on voice chat. Please leave a reply if there's such a thing, thanks!

Holy paladin, 100% mount, pretty good gear (T1,T2), looking for a chill premade group that does BGs on a daily basis, anything from 100-300k honor weekly, maybe even more. Willing to learn, improve, communicate on voice chat. Please leave a reply if there's such a thing, thanks!

I'm experiencing very long logout times, up to a minute, even two. In the past someone suggested it might be DPSMate that's causing it, enabling log resets on logouts fixed it for a short time, but lately things have gone even worse. I'm not using any "special" addons, standard stuff like Luna, Auctioneer, Outfitter, KTM etc. Is there a way to check for sure what's causing this delay, has anyone experienced something similar? Thanks.

I usually just browse the forums from time to time, but seeing this topic made me create a forum account to share some advice that might benefit people with little vanilla experience or anyone else having trouble leveling. One thing though, i'm sure half the people that complain about ganking are just whiny brats that would rather cry and bitch than try and do some things differently, this will not benefit them one bit. I've leveled two chars to 60 on alliance side, Rogue then Paladin, never grouped on any quest that was not an elite one, had little to no trouble regarding ganking, if you start thinking and improvising, you'll get by just fine. Questie, get it. It's a beautiful little addon that makes your life as a leveler a lot easier. By following questie from your starting point, taking every quest available and finishing it, you will always be at least 3-4 levels above mobs that you're fighting, almost all the way up to level 60. Even at this content patch, there's enough quest experience to almost completely skip several zones and still get to 60 without having to grind a single bar of experience. The situation will only get better as more patches roll out, addition of new quests will soon make it possible to COMPLETELY skip SEVERAL zones and still cruise to 60. Don't be afraid to take quests that make you travel a lot, even across continents. as these quests are usually just talk to quests and will reward you with much more experience than regular ones. Also remember that quests reward the same amount of experience regardless if they're red or green, it's only when they become greyed out in your quest log the experience rewarded becomes way less, so doing them once they're green makes it easier and more importantly, faster. Don't expect to get 10 full levels by doing just one zone as the game suggests, this is impossible. Vanilla leveling is a bit weird, in that quest levels are spread very wide within the same zone, a same zone can have a quest meant to be done at lv11, and then nothing until lv20. This is actually cool, as it makes you explore the world, travel, see all of it, there's nothing like leveling your first vanilla char, not knowing where you will end up next and what kinds of mobs you might fight, everything seems so enormous. This is where Questie comes in handy, as you can always view any area and see if there are any quests that can be done there at your level (you should always manually setup a difference between your level and the quests level that are being displayed on screen in Questie options, as Questie by default will stop displaying quests too early, before they become greyed out, i would suggest maxlevel = 5, minlevel = 10 for example). Change your zones, as Alliance visit Ashenvale early on, Stonetalon, don't contain yourself to Eastern continent, if a zone is heavily populated by opposing faction atm, switch for a few quests, try coming back in a few hours, be reactive, don't expect the game to accommodate to you, start adapting. Don't be a completionist, private servers are way more populated than retail were, you can't expect to complete every single quest, know when to quit and move on. Don't be that Alliance player crying in world chat about getting ganked in Thousand Needles, a Horde heavy zone between 2 horde flight paths, while trying to kill scorpions that only have few spawn points and drop quest items at a ridiculously low rate. Don't cry about Stonetalon Mountains being full of Horde when it's such a large horde quest hub, with Alliance having 1/3 of the quests horde has. Don't bitch about getting killed in Blasted Lands while trying to do those few collection quests there while lv60 raid geared players are collecting their raid buffs by killing the same mobs. You can do some quests easier than others in heavily contested zones, do them, but don't waste time trying to do others if you're next to horde flight path outnumbered 10 to 1. If you don't like ganking in STV camp, don't go there, you don't have to. Don't cry about getting killed while Desolace is completely empty and has such easy quests at the exact same level. Once you mount up at 40, go back to STV and do the Booty Bay quests, with less time spent running around on foot you're much less likely to get ganked. If at any point you are tired of leveling, don't be afraid to grind a level or two. Like i already said, you never have to, there's way too much quest experience in the game, but if you really want to, there are several zones where ganking is almost non existent. Hinterlands and Azshara are prime examples, while only having a few quests they're perfect for seting camp and whacking those mobs for an hour or two. Some classes get by easier than others. Rogues and Druids are safe to enter and try questing in any area, if the area at any points starts getting filled with the opposing faction, they can just stealth and avoid. Use your class' strengths early on, keep an eye out on your surroundings, know when to fight and when to run, always have different what if scenarios in your head, knowing which you can survive and which you can't helps. Both factions cry, you just don't see the other one's chat. I've camped lower level zones with other Alliance players for hours, Stonetalon being the prime example. Do you think their lv20s weren't crying after getting killed for 2 hours, not being able to turn in quests? But camping is exactly that, camping, you can't cover an entire zone. If an enemy camps Redridge, don't go to town often, gather up all the quests, then finish them all before returning, even if you die a few times once you turn everything in you're out of there. Well this was a bit longer than intended, i'm sure there's a lot of redundant stuff in here, but i'm also sure there are players who are gonna find some of this helpful. Have fun playing the game, enjoy it, but don't expect it to go smooth on a pvp realm, with 7k online dying comes natural, take breaks, switch zones, there's a way around anything. Good luck to ya all.