Battlegrounds & AFKers

The Wow mailing list at my work is fairly large and active. There are of course people who post very regularly and there is usually a good discussion of several topics going on. Newbs are helped and high-end bosses are discussed.

However, some of the people on this list annoy me greatly. They have views which differ from my own in very serious and fundamental ways.

For example there are some people who feel that it is ok to afk during a battleground, specifically Alterac Valley. They were discussing the best ways and mods to do this. (NO! I am not mentioning any of them!) Finally I couldn't take it anymore. Someone asked if any of these mods were legal according to Blizzards TOS. I replied, by chewing out everyone who would go afk in a battle ground.

My point is basically that if you want the gear you have to work for it. If you want arena gear you must arena, and the better you are the faster you get good gear. Especially with season 3 upon us, you must have a certain amount of skill to get the rating for the high-end gear. If you want PvE raiding gear you have to invest the time and actualy raid the dungeons. If you want gear that you can only buy with honor points then you need to invest the time in the battle grounds.

However, because the gear that you can get with honor points is actually pretty good, there are a lot of lazy bastards who sit in the cave in AV and get free honor from the work that the rest of us do to win the match. I can't stand these people, especially their sense of entitlement. They feel that because Blizzrd has messed up the incentives for PvP in battlegrounds it is ok for them to just sit there and leech honor for my hard work.

Put plain and simple I despise the people who intentionally afk in the battlegrounds and have a method to avoid being reported afk. In the case where they are running a bot to do this while they are not home they are actually breaking the rules of the game. In the case where they hit the spacebar every so often to avoid the afk debuff they are breaking the spirit of the rules, if not actually the rules themselves.