Cross Faction Action

Truth be told, my guild leader thinks it's extremely funny that horde flirt with me in Shatt, and the rest of the guild tolerates it. But all of my guildies find it quite unnerving when we're in contested territory and a horde flirts instead of attacking. The phrase "trust no one" gets repeated a lot in guild chat, and I'm constantly reminded to not tell the alliance alt chars of horde folks anything, and I do mean ANYTHING at all about guild activities.

I know that there are horde players who are also quite unhappy about my flirting, and about the fact that often I'm flirted with instead of getting ganked. The word I've had passed on to me is "unfair" since everyone else has to deal with "if it's red it's dead" mentality.

Lore-wise, we're in the middle of an awkward truce, Horde and Alliance -- we work together but can't communicate directly. Our history toward each other is not one of flirting. On most PvP servers there's a lot of ganking by both sides. And outright hatred. And I admit that the kazillion times I was ganked while leveling in STV still rankle my soul a bit.

So why then do I flirt with Horde, besides the obvious "it's fun as hell" aspect? Simple -- it keeps me alive.

Play to your strengths is a phrase I throw out a lot, but I do actually mean it. My strength isn't PvP -- I'm not that fast, I keyboard turn, and I get flustered. But I can flirt like nobody's business. Back in my single days I was notorious for it, and it seems that (just like riding a bicycle) I still know how to tease, tempt, and bat my eye lashes. It wasn't really that hard to figure out how to behave like a total flirt using the in-game slash emotes...it turns out he most effective way is to just do what Cosmo says and make the guy feel good while preening a bit and blushing.

In the end, all's fair in love and war -- and in the World of Warcraft it turns out that (for me at least) flirting is just as good of a strategy as any other method of survival.