It's not griefing when the game mechanics not only encourage it, but a quest tells you to do it. That be like saying killing players in EvE is griefing.

Maybe you shouldn't log out in a spot where otehrs can get to you. Did you used to complain about the Party bombs as well?

Except, if you're out doign that stuff, your chanced of beign infected are pretty slim unless your friend or guildie is chasing you down. Even then, you could havegotten it removed before going after the champion.

Do you expect me to be impressed by the fact you only pulled out the part of what I said that you could twist and completely ignored the statement about hwo it *benefited* them to have it done to them?

They aren't abusing it... they're *supposed* to go and infect people. It's a quest... which means you should go do it. It is safe... because nothign is harmign you. Quite the opposite, they are helping you. You get DNA which is selling fast adn for good credits (if you're not just keepign them yourselffor the pet and black/green crystals) and if you infect others you get credit toward the quest which is free XP if you're not at 50. They are helpign you, not hindering you.

Don't go fight a champion mob while you're infected? You do keep a tab on your current debuffs, right?

Now I will agree that event was full of griefing. Namely becasue it disrupted *everything* and it held no benefits at all to anyone. Auctioneers, quest givers, lowbies... anyoen and everythign coudl be infected. And you weren't doign it for rewards, just to be a tool. Now, I was on a PvP server and a group of us did get infected and then went storming a few horde cities... but that was PvP happening on a PvP server. Was interestign to find out that while in ghoul form you could all talk to each other since the ghouls used their own language.

It's still not griefing when they get somethign for it. Moreso, is if they infect someoen they get credit toward a quest !! that means free XP for exploding on people. yeah, helpign peole get currency and free XP is *totally* griefing.

It costs them what... 2-3 seconds of being stunned every 20 minutes or so? So costs them like 6-10seconds an hour... 24 hours would be 2.5-4 minutes per *day* if they played 24 hours straight while gettign infected every time they respawned. There is no running back becasue you rez right where you were and it costs no durability damage so no lost time to farmign repair costs.

EvE would like a word with you. As would EQ with mob training. And WoW with Hunter/Rogue pulling into another player's AoE and Feigning/Vanishing. There are ways to grief people in every game. This, though, isnt' griefing when it's working as intended.

You don't pay 2k a pop... the vaccine is 6 hours of protection. Moreso, if you're not on the fleet, you don't have to spend the credits!! Or you could just die from the infection and use the DNA to sell on the GTN and make money off of it.

If credits are so hard to come by... stop dying in HMs and Ops? They aren't that difficult. More so why waste 2k when it costs nothign to simply die from it or by jumping down the fleet openings? See... no credits wasted. You're playing a Bioware SW game and expected there not to be a Rakghoul invasion eventually?

All you have to do is mouse over the debuff and *gasp* ZOMG!!! It says the duration and the effect!! Yeah, so totally your bad you didn't know about the time limit. No oen made yoru choices for you. They played the game... you *chose* to play the game. You then chose to *cry* about the game. Hence why it's you QQ'ing. Nothign stopped you from going about your business.

It happens. It could happen at any tiem on a PvP server... that is why they rolled on a PvP server, afterall, isn't it? There is *always* a chance that PvP will happen and not in a fair fight. It's why I personally love PvP servers and wished my guild had choosen one. PvP happens on a PvP server and that's just eh way it is.

And last I checked, the Fleet wasn't even marked a sanctuary... and you sure enough can die on it. I see dead bodies on it on the time and have seen plenty of people die going for that +10 Stats Datacron. If it takes you 20+ minutes to consider your AC choices, I'm sure this event is the least of your worries.