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Redhotcc wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:28 pm Ya this will definitely cause problems for city raids and gurabashi arena and stuff. And 10 mins is crazy lol.

maybe instead put a buff on a lowbie that dies to a high level player that lasts a few minutes. this grace period buff makes them unflagged (only vs high level players) unless they attack first. But maybe this would be too easy to abuse.

Could maybe add this same grace period in your own capital cities as well.

Tusamf wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:40 pm

Moksey wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:38 pm Yeah horrible idea, still dont understand why not just drop the forced warmode and make it a normal pvp server where you can be safe in capitals and low level zones.
Would not need any of these bandaid fixes

I like the "nowhere is safe" feeling warmode brings. I think it will make the PvP community tighter on this server as more cooperation is needed.

Moksey wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:46 pm

Tusamf wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:40 pm

Moksey wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:38 pm Yeah horrible idea, still dont understand why not just drop the forced warmode and make it a normal pvp server where you can be safe in capitals and low level zones.
Would not need any of these bandaid fixes

I like the "nowhere is safe" feeling warmode brings. I think it will make the PvP community tighter on this server as more cooperation is needed.

Just too open to griefing imo. there was already a level 12 hunter camping human spawn at one point.
thats why the original "fix"

Kestrel wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:22 pm We will be disabling this debuff on the next restart due to the potential issues around city raids triggering this debuff.

We have already made changes to increase honor from open world kills, as well as reward EXP for HK's.

It is our intention to bring this debuff back in a modified form at some point. We recognize that any change to the PvP realm will result in backlash, and we still plan on making changes. We want to ensure that the community is heard, but also that the loud voices are not the only ones heard. I will be making a sticky thread in the suggestions chat with details on a proposed second iteration of this debuff to gather more community feedback.

Computer wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:41 pm For all that are un-happy with this change , I would like to refer to a post I made a while ago ( with some extra stuff that can be trimmed away to save on dev time )


Link: https://octowow.st/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1421#p1421


I don't believe players should be punished for pvp , but incentivized. I believe the goal is to incentivize players to kill gankers rather than punish the ganker.


Tl;dr: Offer some reward for turning in the "head" of someone who's flagged for killing Grey level players. Idk what the reward could be so the devs would have to figure that part out. But all I can is can you imagine the kind of heat you'd bring on yourself if people knew they could turn in your head for a chance at a mount ?

Tusamf wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:55 pm

Moksey wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:46 pm

Tusamf wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:40 pm

I like the "nowhere is safe" feeling warmode brings. I think it will make the PvP community tighter on this server as more cooperation is needed.

Just too open to griefing imo. there was already a level 12 hunter camping human spawn at one point.
thats why the original "fix"

My point exactly, alliance would need to muster a force to deal with this threat!

Kestrel wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 5:22 pm We will be disabling this debuff on the next restart due to the potential issues around city raids triggering this debuff.

We have already made changes to increase honor from open world kills, as well as reward EXP for HK's.

It is our intention to bring this debuff back in a modified form at some point. We recognize that any change to the PvP realm will result in backlash, and we still plan on making changes. We want to ensure that the community is heard, but also that the loud voices are not the only ones heard. I will be making a sticky thread in the suggestions chat with details on a proposed second iteration of this debuff to gather more community feedback.