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Ganking in World of Warcraft: Why does one do it? |
Listed in: MMORPG Tags: Blizzard, Europe, mmorpg rumors
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Ganking in Blizzard's World of Warcraft is as unavoidable as breathing or running from Onyxia. Ganking has been defined as a large or more powerful group attacking a weaker one. It's also been used for players who will kill lower leveled characters or those who are currently engaged in another battle. The term originally meant Gang-kill (thus gank) where a group of players would kill a single individual. While ganking is common, a lot of players have really been complaining about it, with some going to more extreme measures to deal with it.
Now this topic has become a thread on the WoW-Europe forums and a user by the name of Vaneras has posted a list of reasons why people gank. he said that people gank because:
- Some gank because they think that that is what you are supposed to do when you are playing on a PvP realm.
- Some gank because they enjoy causing grief and take pleasure in trying to ruin the game experience for others.
- Some gank when they see red text above a target and doesn't really look at the level of the target.
- Some gank as an act of revenge.
- Some gank for the sport
- Some gank to provoke a response from the opposite faction in order to start some World PvP
- Some gank for no particular reason or because they are bored.
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So, I journey to a given area under attack and find gankables gleefully bouncing about killing npcs often 10, 20 and 30 levels below them. It is then that I unsheath the Ganksta 2000 and let it rip thru their unrepentant souls. Oh and until the mighty blizzard stops me... I'll be ganking every low-end horde that dares set foot on Alliance terrain to cause trouble.
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So, I have alliance pretty much on KoS. It all probably started because someone ganked me out of revenge for someone ganking them, and so on and so forth. The cycle continues, and it always will. I gank, because I was ganked, and it will never stop.
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-They attack others of my faction .
-They attack me.
-They're part of an enemy guild.
-They annoy me in some other way.
-They appear to be bots.
-They selected Gnome as their race.
Reasons to not gank people:
-They're trying to do an instance.
-They're AFK.
-They're doing some escort quest.
-They're funny/cool.
Mostly, i view everyone with a yellow/red name as fair, regardless of level or circumstance. I usually let them go without them even realizing i was there (rogue most of the time) unless i feel like ganking. Note that THAT is the most common reason for me, i just feel like it or not. There's plenty of times when i aid the enemy , mainly when they're trying to just complete some quests. And there's also times when i just go to a low level enemy area to gank as much as possible. (usually gets dull rather fast)
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Its empowering to gank. Same reason people feel empowered when they carry guns or swords. We get to be half-gods. We can take life away, just not give it. But mimicking a half-god seems to suffice in our primitive minds. We are all half-gods in our own worlds, and if we have the oppurtunity to kill and not be rebuked by society, then why not?--hence gankage.
Thus, in Gankology 101, we see that people excercise their destructive potential in a very safe way, without tarnishing their "real" lives.
Some people gank, some abuse their wives, fewer commit genocides... Difference is that there are no Nuremberg laws for ganking in WoW, so people do it.
If people TRUL
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its a game dude, you can play on the alliance side on a different server if you like, quit being a jerkoff. Anyway, my main is an alliance character and have a few horde alts and can honestly say you're full of crap saying alliance usually ganks more. Maybe you just get ganked more for being such a nub.
to the gnome gankers [yeah, you "neferon"]:
I have a level 70 gnome rogue on frostmane. Bring it, fools. Bet you can't hang.
anyway, all seriousness aside, its fun to engage in PVP combat outside of battlegrounds/arena, and very tempting to 1-hit lowbies, so that'd be why I do it.
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