A Gentlemanly Duel
I've been working on getting my Salty title. The main roadblock in this being The One That Didn't Get Away. This achievement is incredibly mind numbing to accomplish because majority of the fish you have to catch are a 1/5000 or worse catch rate. Anyway, there was a rumor on the Internet that the pools in Shadowglen (the Night Elf starting area) in Teldrassil had an above average drop rate of one of the fish for the achievement so I headed there to check it out.
While out there fishing, the occasional level 2 Night Elf would come and attack me only to die to one whack from my fishing pole. Occasionally, a level 40-70 character would be running through the area for reasons unknown and come and try to attack me. I was always able to quickly swap weapons and dispatch of them without trouble. For the most part, however, people left me alone.
I continued to fish there and it eventually led to what I now consider to be one of the most enjoyable PvP experiences I've had in WoW.
While only half paying attention to fishing, I noticed a level 80 Draenei shaman ride by on his Elekk. He seemed to be uninterested in me so I paid little attention to him. I figured he was probably working on his Loremaster achievement. A few minutes later, I got hit by a lightning bolt out of nowhere. While I was fishing, he had set up totems and buffed up far behind me and out of my vision and began his attack. I was able to stun him, run away to break combat and mount up to escape. He gave chase initially and then broke off so I went back to fishing. A few minutes later he came back and the cycle repeated.
After he had attacked me the second time, I went off to a corner of the area after he had broken off to buff myself and prepare. I got back on my mount and scouted the area to see if he was still around (which he was). We charged headfirst into each other and the fight began. After about ten minutes of fighting, I was able to properly time my cooldowns and kill him (I'm holy so it was a feat in itself). He ankhed up and the battle continued. Twenty minutes later, we were both still fighting. We were unable to kill each other but able to heal through the damage the other did. I did a /wait emote on him and just backed up and stopped attacking him. He backed up and halted his spellcast. We /shrugged, /saluted, and decided to accept the terms of a draw. This was a fight that would have no winner.
This was a real treat for me because I'm not used to fights lasting very long or being very fair. Had I gone against a class that couldn't heal, such as hunter, it would have been a fight that was over fairly fast. Being sofar out, neither of us could easily call in backup so we were left to a 1v1 to find the better man. After accepting that we were equal, he went back to whatever he was doing and I went back to fishing, having made a new friend on the opposite faction.
I still haven't caught that damn fish.