World of Warcraft Role-Play Fighting Guide

In World of Warcraft, lots of people (at least on Moon Guard) do not know how to Role-play fight correctly. Role-Playing needs concentration, you have to be well prepared about it. Make sure you've got enough WOW gold to handle it. If you haven't, you can buy cheap WOW gold from us. Instant delivery helps you get prepared right away.

1. Basics and Types of fights

Role-play fighting in World of Warcraft is considered by me the same as regular Role-playing. What you do in a Role-play fight, reflexes you as a Role-player as a whole. It's also like RP in the sense that you cannot just take 'something back' because it does not go your way. Now essentially, RP fighting speaks for itself. It's when two characters fight each other when it escalates to that level.

Roll Dueling

This type of Role-play fight basically means the 2 or more characters join a party/raid and they do an attack. They both roll, if the attacker wins he gets the attack in on the other characters next emote. If the defender wins, he can avoid it or mitigate it in any way and then continue. So on and so forth.

Duels

Dueling other players in World of Warcraft can be a fun diversion, a contest of skills or to settle a score, and even test abilities and tactics in PvP combat. The only time you should do duels is if: The two are in a similar level range, similarly geared, and agree to it. Now if level 45 wants to duel the 59, by all means do it.

2. Godmoding/Meta-Gaming/Descriptiveness

Godmode

Godmode is one of two emotes. These are two emotes, one is godmod one is not. You could use words, like I did. Such as towards, tries, shoots it out, it sears through the air toward, etc. Many people forget to put attempts, and if they do, don't go into a rage but remind them. However, don't make it consistent. Try your best to make everything attempts; remember, if you are in full plate you cannot do barrel rolls. If you are mail armor, carrying two large axes you cannot do a front flip over someone. If you are a 5'11 human you cannot swing your dagger at a 7'8 elf's forehead.

Meta-Gaming

Meta-Game is a very simple concept. Do not take OOC information IC. You cannot start fights, and you cannot do any of that from seeing someone's guild tag or guild name. Don't be a Stromharrow, in his case don't /who Scarlet March and get your entire guild to fly up to Uthers Tomb and attack him with the basis of "Unreleasable Information"

You cannot recognize someone's guild if they are disguised and/or no tabard. You cannot recognize a face with a mask, etc.

Descriptiveness

Descriptiveness is not only a common courtesy, but a necessity. If you just say 'slashes at Fruscainte' I need to know specifics. Is it vertical or horizontal? Is it left or right / up or down? What is your pose? Are you fully erect or bent down in a cat like position? What's your other blade doing in the case that you have one? All these things matter in a fight.

3. Fighting in cities

If you are in the middle of Stormwind City in WOW - Trade District and you try to stab someone whether you see it or not, a bunch of guards would have tackled you already. What could possess you to think that if you are in the Cathedral and you shoot a shadow bolt at someone, enough Paladins and Priests to make a small army would not swarm on you? If you are a warlock, you can't walk into the Cathedral in full warlock guise and a fellow guard following behind you.

I know it sounds like godmod in itself, but it isn't. If you stab someone in the open day, in front of everyone hell anywhere in the open like the Trade District, Cathedral, Park, or Old Town in front of the CC almost three dozen guards would be on you in a matter of 2-5 minutes. If you want to fight someone, you got two choices. Keep it secret, do it somewhere private, or for heaven's sake be original and RP outside of Stormwind.

4. Level does NOT matter

If I had a nickel for every time that I heard that level should or will determine how an RP fight turns out I would be a pretty rich man. Actually, level should not be the sole decider in a fight. Yes, sole decider, it still plays a role fights.

There are three basic things that apply in an RP fight:
Armor
Weapon
RP Skill (IC and OOC)

If you're character is level 80, RP's as a professional alchemist in a tuxedo you shouldn't beat a level 52 who is in full plate and RP's as a Third War veteran. It's just plain silly. Now there are advantages to being a higher level as always, but it's not all that matters. I have won many fights on my level 9 alt against level 60+'s purely because of how creative I can get. I've seen it happen with others too.

Higher Level = More protective and more creative Armor/Weapons. Therefore, Higher Level = Higher chances of survival.

Of course a level 1 in ragged clothes will not beat a level 80 in barbarian armor. However, it's all situational. A level 9 who is an assassin disguised as a fisherman could beat a level 42 man who RP's as a real fisherman. Nothing more, nothing less.

In conclusion, World of Warcraft is just a game and Role-play fighting is only a small part of it. There are more things you can concentrate on, like making WOW gold, doing raids etc. and if you are a really fun of RP, hope this could help you in some level.