I shouldn't have to have 600DP to be able to participate in killing the Yeti event boss. The moment I go into the area, I get attacked and killed by guilds who are decced on us. The people decced weren't even attacking the Yeti. They were there exclusively for PvP. There is a time and place for PvP, and griefing people at a limited time winter event is not it.

Welcome to BDO. This is the normal "OpenWorldPVP"-Community here. 

Didn't'cha know, there is no PK griefing in BDO?  Says so in all these threads right here on this forum.  It's all legitimate OWPvPvEvXvYvZ... Preventing this would ruin someone's game / day / sense of purpose / life / world / universe ... All of us need to go play some other game or get a life or get gud or sit still and be targets or think of the children or don't advance beyond level 49 or ... 

More seriously, it sounds like an oversight. It's happened before at other new event areas.  I don't know, maybe it was intentonal, maybe PA is thinking "surely this time people will show some restraint", but it never works out that way.  A free-for-all event would be ok, take away the boss and just have a mosh pit, but then the PvP'ers would just be fighting each other.  That also sounds like node wars etc.  Boss wars?

Could be fun just to ignore the boss and stay on the periphery and snipe at the PKers. But it would also be nice to fight the boss and get some drops.