Friend IMs me asking for help in WoW. I'm happy to help, I'm not as active as I used to be but I still show up twice a week for raids.
I log in and ask him what he needs. I figure he needs me to do some leatherworking or help him with a world boss, or at least just want somebody to queue with for heroics.
Instead he wants me to help him kill what he calls a sanctuary camper. An enemy player that stands on the edge of a no pvp zone looking into a pvp zone. When somebody leaves the sanctuary on their way to do their stuff the camper inches out of the no pvp zone and starts throwing ranged attacks to kill them. If they get attacked back, they just inch back into the no pvp zone. While it is possible to kill them using stealth and stuns to keep them from moving, neither of us are the class for it, or experienced in pvp, and even when people are it requires as much luck as anything.
Since I wasted the time logging in I decide to try it anyway, as expected it fails. The camper is immediately suspicious when another person from the same guild shows up and doesn't attack while I'm near, and the one time we do get the jump on them we don't coordinate our stuns well enough.
Afterwards I tell him that if a ranged sanctuary camper is giving him a hard time just keep moving out, he has a pvp trinket equipped that can cancel holding moves, and as a druid he can cure slowing effects for free just by shapeshifting, or better yet, simply stealth inside the sanctuary and de-stealth outside their range. It is easy to ignore them, and they accomplish more by pissing somebody off to make them try to fight back then they do when they are ignored. He responds with "If you didn't want to help you should have just said no."
All this from a friend I know for more than a decade, that should be smarter than that.
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