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World PvP

PvP

Fighting other players out in the zones rather than in battlegrounds. Anything from a duel outside Orgrimmar to a 200-person Tarren Mill raid.

“Southshore vs Tarren Mill was world PvP before battlegrounds existed.”

See also: Gank, STV

How to use it

  • “Southshore vs Tarren Mill was world PvP before battlegrounds existed.”

Related words

  1. GankTo attack someone who can't fight back: lower level, half health, mid-fight with a mob. World PvP's favourite…
  2. STVStranglethorn Vale: the level 30–45 jungle zone where every PvP server's ganking happens.
  3. DuelOne-on-one consensual PvP, usually outside a capital city. The oldest way to settle who's better.

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