Attacking republic in Open World is griefing?

i thought griefing was same faction only.

and hell, in wow during the burning crusade there was an outdoor boss that was supposed to be a 20 man but you could use as many people as you want. i remember single handedly wiping their entire 50+ raid over and over again by cycloning the tank so that the boss went wild and wiped out half of the raid with a single cleave.

I don't really see a problem as long as all sides agree to PvP (either by being on a PvP server or flagging for PvP).

As a rep player, on a PvE server I had an encounter with a sith who sneaked into our heroic 2 zone on Ilum and kept assisting mobs against republic players trying to do dailies. Sure, it's frustrating, but my first response was not "report him", but "/2 hey, anyone up for an ops to smoke an imp out of our h2 area?". It's part of the role-playing. Ask yourself a question: is it within your view of the depicted world to have sith aiding random creatures fighting republic soldiers? If it is, then it's perfectly within the rules. Now, if someone was to repeatedly aid mobs by healing them and was not flagged for PvP, that I would consider griefing because it's abusing the mechanics (but even then, the solution should not be to have players reported, but to switch mechanics so that a player healing mobs that are fighting the opposing faction is immediately flagged for PvP).

Also, what you call "exploting mechanics" others might just call "tactics" :>

I think attacking players on a PVP server is ok. That is, after all, the point of a PVP server. Arguably, if they are camping a spawn so that the person can't revive, it could be considered harassing, but anywhere else should be fine.

However, I could see that "tagging" the boss for the purpose of preventing the other side from battling it (but not planning to battle it yourself) could be considered exploiting the game mechanics. If you attack the other players but not the boss I don't see a problem (or attacking the both the players and the boss and trying to win).

Also, when it comes to harassing behaviour, a level 20 trying to complete a quest and being hammered by a group of level 50s over and over for no reason may have reason to complain. But we are talking about an attack on a group that is big enough to be taking on upper-level world bosses....

EDIT: Personally, I don't tend to attack enemy players when they are involved in a PVE battle, but I'm Light IV. I wouldn't expect someone Dark IV to follow the same rules.

"Open world" PvP is one thing.......but denying another group of players access to content is another....

I would suspect there is a balance they are working here....

Did your group proceed to slay the world boss?

....or were you just killing off the republic players so they could not?

huh ?

they are on PVP ill say it again PVP server and if they see players anywhere in open no matter questing raiding etc they have the right to attack them
players should know that going out of town means they can be attacked on PVP servers

From the rules which we all agreed to on harassment: "Player versus Player (“PvP”) activities, where available, are not exempt from this policy."


You can't just do anything you like just because someone is in the other faction.

That's bs I will camp everyone I come across and purposefully wipe every repub group I see attempting to kill a world boss. Why? Because I rolled on a pvp server and doing those things I listed is a lot of fun. If bioware wants to inform me that I'm griefing over these things I'll die laughing and instantly unsub because it's far from griefing it's world pvp the illuding concept that bioware can't seem to understand.