There are many players who enjoy ganking in World of Warcraft – but one has taken it to the extreme. We are talking about the legendary Orc rogue Angwe.
In World of Warcraft, there are only a few individuals who have made a name for themselves in the community beyond the game. One of them is Leeroy Jenkins, who is responsible for perhaps the most famous wipe in Azeroth. While Leeroy is associated with a rather funny story, there are also tales of terrible players who not only besieged a village of the opposing faction but outright terrorized it.
One of these nightmares is Angwe, an Orc rogue from the Dethecus server, who was active in the early days of World of Warcraft. In 2005, Angwe set up camp in Menethil for 4 months and slaughtered the unsuspecting players who just wanted to travel to Kalimdor.
Angwe – The Butcher of Menethil
In Classic, switching between continents required using a Zeppelin (Horde) or a boat (Alliance). This forced Alliance players to cross from Menethil (Wetlands) by boat. The Wetlands back then were for players in the level range of 30-40 – the perfect place to spread fear and terror as a level 60 rogue.
Angwe waited for players to gather at the harbor to board the boat. At first, he only killed players who went AFK while waiting. But soon he changed his plan and wanted to kill anyone who dared to board the boat. No matter if level 30 newbie or level 60 veteran – Angwe would attack everyone and then disappear back into the shadows.
Sometimes he even acted particularly deviously and sneaked onto the boat to execute players at the last moment before the zone change.
At the same time, Angwe had a second account on the Alliance side to monitor the general chat in the Wetlands and directly receive the hate from his victims. For – like many trolls on the internet today – Angwe enjoyed it when his victims got upset. The insults he received he collected in screenshots and posted them on his own website.
Some of these excesses we have included in this article.
Ending Angwe’s Carnage with the Implementation of Battlegrounds
The reputation of Angwe quickly spread across the server, and time and again, upset players could be found in the Dethecus realm forum complaining as well. Angwe did show a little mercy if the players humbled themselves – they had to join the guild “Minions of Angwe,” then they could travel safely by ship.
The cruel slaughter of players ended with Patch 1.05 – here Blizzard implemented battlegrounds in World of Warcraft, and open-world PvP no longer paid off.
Meanwhile, Angwe has become a legend, and his name appears from time to time in the World of Warcraft subreddit. In an interview with PCGamer, the now 30-year-old family man explained that back then he “just liked playing Freddy Krueger.”
By the way, Angwe learned this behavior from Everquest. According to his description, players there were so fanatically hostile that they stalked individual players for weeks until they finally got their revenge.
However, Angwe has not become arrogant. He does not see himself as a particularly good player and thinks that if he were to play actively again today, he couldn’t repeat it. Back then, most WoW players were incredibly bad at PvP and there was no proper balance between classes anyway. It was simply the right place and the right time to instill real fear in players.
Do you know of any other fanatic and persistent PvP gankers like Angwe? And what do you think about this? Cool if you go through with it? Or do you see it like the people in the screenshots, that Angwe was just “a kiddie that wanted attention”?
