This one wishes to address a small pachyderm under a lampshade.

Those who do not, on at least some level, desire war have no business on a PvP server.

There is no reason needed to fight on a PvP server.
Just as one need no reason to punch another boxer who is in the ring with them.

All parties have willing and knowingly walked into a warzone. They chose to be there. They made a conscious decision that this is where they want to be.

The one who must justify their presence, of anyone, is the pacifist. Why enter the pit if one has not come to fight? Why enter the morgue of one fears cadavers?

Now, not everyone wants to fight everyone at all times.
Not every conflict is equally satisfying just as not all builds are equally beautiful.

This one desires two things.

  1. A target who has, in this one’s particular and aberrant view, earned malfeasance to be heaped upon them.
  2. To be heaping that malfeasance upon said villain.

There can be no satisfaction, on that level, in PvE.

Nor in PvE-C for that matter.
Death is cheap, at most it costs some repair mats and maybe a run back to a few vaults on Siptah. If death had bight, it would be different.

But in PvP, especially with server transfers down…
This one can hurt those who have grown too vainglorious in their pixelated possessions. Eldarium gear? Stocked Sigils? Delicious offerings to Dagon!
Even without the no longer accessible offerings… It takes time to grind and build a base. Far less so to destroy it. This one will literally erase the efforts of their time.
When this one is done with them, it will be as tho they never were.
In this small way that doesn’t matter more than the investment on the game. And some people take games far too seriously.

Is this one a closet sadist?
No, this one is out and proud.
However, this one has standards as to whom is fair game.

Many people who choose PvP are just as spiteful and grief oriented. They are simply shy of admitting it, perhaps even to themselves. But somewhere in their heart, they decided that the most fulfilling option is the one where they can huff and puff and blow a house down. Even if they only want it in the back pocket as a tool of last resort against someone who has been resistant to all other forms of reason and decency.

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