Attacking republic in Open World is griefing?

Sorry, nothing involving WOW can be considered Golden Era. WoW was the beginning of the Noob Era.

PvP is PvP, harassment is harassment, don't try to hide behind the argument "ITS A PVP SERVER" if what you are doing is in fact harassment. The devs have the right to say whether what you are doing is in fact harassing people. Its in the ToS.

Don't get me wrong, I love ganking and open world pvp, but I'm pretty sure corpse camping and repeatedly killing the same guy over and over who's lvl 30, and you are 50, can be considered harassment ( for example). So don't be in shock when he reports you and action is taken, you had it coming.

I've just caught this thread but didn't want to read the last 16 pages beyond the OP so heres my take on it and I apologise if someone has said all this before.

FYI my Guild is on Terentatek a PvP server

This scenario has happened to me and my guild on the Belsavis boss. We would start attacking and be promptly attacked by a handful of imps, enough to disrupt us from our task. We chased them off and reset only to have it happen a couple more times. At this point none of us qq'd about what was happening nor did we call for a GM's help. Instead, we abandoned taking the boss down and instead went Imp hunting after the Guild that was attacking us.

Nothing wrong with what they were doing to us, I would probably have done the same and our world boss Ops group just switched to a PvP group and we changed our activity for the next half hour. After patrolling the area and taking out a few imps (we had the numbers so this isn't a boasting thread) they soon left and we returned to the boss and took him down.

Basically there is absolutely nothing wrong with attacking someone taking down a world boss. Open world PvP is supposed to be unpredictable and this adds to the 'suspense' whenever you are out questing. If you want fair fights all the time and no "griefing" (sorry I hate that word) then join a PvE server and just play Warzones.

Agreed. I would never roll on a PvE server. PvP servers bring a whole new element to the game.

But, like I've stated, there is a somewhat fuzzy line between "PVP happened" and harassment.

I think that's total bs. In my opinion, when it comes to pvp anything goes on a pvp server. That is how it should be anyway.

But these days pretty much anyting is harassment. If you dance/taunt when you kill someone it could be harassment because you probably hurt their feelings. Cue the violins....

no way this is real

Its not harrassment in any way.

harrassment is when you somehow get the location of a single player, during multiple days in a row and try to /camp him. THAT is harrassment. One day seeing alot of reps and choosing to attack them or even camp their GY for a few hours is not harassment.

This game has to many old geezers that take 'harassment' way to seriously on the game level.

Next we will have court cases because someone has killed you on a PvP server while you were questing thus preventing you the content in your free time...

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After looking at the Ops clarification of things on the first page one statement stood out to me. That the OP's group were "tagging" the boss spawn with no intention of actually engaging it for a kill. That would likely be the root of the violation rather than the PVP fight that occured.

I'm sure there is a lot more to this story than we are getting. I'm sure that act didn't cause the issue. Probably their trash talking.