Was talking to a few people in my current guild about playing the RP layer in Forever. I was trying to see how many people are actually going to go specifically on that layer to play? I’d hate to create a character and then it just be dead. So trying to get a feel as to how many people are going to head into that one. I did a whole work up for RP for it for alliance races (guess I could do horde too). So what is the general feel or consensus here? I’ll post my stuff if there’s enough interest.
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Enough that the first major outcry when hearing about the layers was “what about RPPvP?”
So enough people care that they’re even wanting to make sure they get their preferred type of RP if that’s anything to go on.
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WoW forever seems cool, but as someone who has played 23 years and still has thousands upon thousands of quests to experience for the very first time, I can’t even consider playing it.
Remember, there are 12 sets of content on Real WoW realms. The early cata/classic content with it’s own endgame, plus 11 expansions, each with their own endgame content. And then there is about 70% of that content that is unique to each faction, with each faction having about 16,000+ quests available to complete.
But some people play 10 hrs a day every day and may have experienced everything possible in WoW, so it makes sense if they played the tweaked WoW Classic: Vanilla or this new WoW Forever. It might not even last forever at all.
1000 new quests, 1 new zone, 1 reimagined zone and the skyborn race plus starting area for that race. That is what WoW Forever starts with, as well as some new systems/features and changes.
The patches for Vanilla will be released over time, so it will probably be a good year or two before any new content is released. Unless they have all patches released at the start.
It is still Warcraft, so of course it will be amazing. But if it’s not for you, come join everyone else on Real WoW realms. Plenty to do here 
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I’m very interested! I’m also leaning Alliance and hoping to build a team of five players who can group up and RP content. It seems like WoW RP often falls into wandering and hoping to encounter another RPer or RPing solo. I think getting together like a DnD group for content is a more fruitful option, maybe even a guild which would help identify people interested in engaging. If we get something like Total Rp 3 for “Forever” it would make things a lot easier.
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I am dead set on the RP layer.
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Likewise. Nearly 22 years, come December 6th. I don’t really want to go back. Sure there are new zones and everything, and maybe everything is overhauled. But I’ve been there before. I want to go forward. Not go backward and then take a different route going forward that is very similar to the first way forward.
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I agree with you and Xalonn. I feel…tired. I have spent so much time developing my characters in retail and there is still always so much to do there, I just do not have time for anything else. I will make characters and check things out briefly on the RP layer, but I do not expect to be doing anything major.
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I’ll be exclusively on the RP layer, I can already see it. Questing in Duskwood, you decide to set up a camp in the wilderness. The crackling fire does little to ease the tension you feel in this light-forsaken forest as the trees creek ominously and an owl hoots in the distance. Suddenly, you hear the rustling of bushes… and another adventurer appears, looking to take a moment to rest on their travels at your fire. NEW. BEST. FRIEND!
The potential for random, open world RP is strong, and it’s something I haven’t really seen much of in years. I’m really excited for it.
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When it comes to Classic, I’m a PvP guy, so I’ll play on the PvP layer and RP most of the time. I hope to find some people there.
RP realms in Classic tend to die out after a while because most RPers will stick with Retail anyway. I don’t trust tourists.
For the Dark Lady!
Let’s eat the Alliance!
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World of Warcraft no matter what version you play Forever, Retail, the other classic games if you want to role play you can do so regardless. I am planning on now exclusively play on Forever I am not in a rush to do anything in the game. I have played the game like most for a really long time. So to finally have a version where you dont feel rushed. Whether I play on normal or a dedicated RP server I wont matter. So, just do like the developers say play the game we all have come to enjoy and slow down.
May not like my advice yet it is what it is.
I’ll be on the RP layer for the first time ever. I’m excited, but hopeful they ad RP-PVP.
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I’ll definitely be there! I’m very keen to roleplay in an era I missed to be honest. I picked up WoW in Cata and entirely missed the Scourge era, even though so many of my characters are tied to it. Frankly I can see myself migrating to Forever fully. I’ll be playing a Forsaken Paladin, I reckon.
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I hope that people will follow the basic rules for an RP layer or realm. Maybe they will enforce the rules, but probably not. They seem to be sticking with the character naming rules, which is great! Maybe because WoW Forever has an RP layer, rather than RP or RP-PVP realms, toxic players won’t ruin it for others.
On RP and RP-PVP realms, players would invade to get World Firsts, to have less competition in Raids or PVP, and of course, to ruin the experience that RPers enjoyed.
Something I learned a long time ago… RPers make some of the best PVPers and Raiders in the entire community. I love that!
I’m excited to play WoW Forever, but I also spent 6-7 years enjoying Vanilla content. And I hope, one day, we will get Vanilla content returned to real WoW realms. And even though WoW Forever only has a little bit of new content, it is enough for now and more will be added in time. It is still very much Vanilla, but the new stuff seems really great.
WoW has always expanded. Each expansion made things more epic and fun. Of course we miss things that were replaced or changed, but it is always WoW regardless. Just like in real life, we can’t just hold onto the past. Gotta learn to accept the losses and open our hearts to the new possibilities.
I’m sure WoW Forever will do well, but it is more of an extra than any sort of replacement. Most will continue playing real WoW for many decades, but being able to take a break and go to WoW Classic’s version of Vanilla or WoW Forever’s version, is really awesome.
I hope everyone gets to have the most amazing time possible in whichever one they want to play.
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I’ll only roleplay in Forever, actually. The story and lore of retail have been absurd for at least a decade; I can’t take it seriously anymore. Forever finally makes me interested in immersing myself in Azeroth again.
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I’m of two minds honestly. On one hand I really do like a timeline that progresses - a world that moves with your characters development. I like that we’ve had political developments in Azeroth - war between the Forsaken and Worgen in Cata for instance, or even the consolidation of territory the Forsaken experienced.
But the post-Warcraft 3 era of WoW does feel like an objectively more fun world. I’m not entirely broken in terms of immersion like Zuljoth, but I admit that a lot of the themes and story beats I really enjoyed came out of the early years of WoW. So I’m excited to go back in time. I kinda just wish it was an alternate progressing timeline rather than an alternate paused timeline, I guess. I’d still like to face down the Lich King one day for instance!
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I’m sure they will get up to Icecrown eventually, just as level 60s. New Avalon is included with Forever’s Eastern Plaguelands, so who knows? They will be adding more races, zones and dungeons over time.
I’ll be on the RP rule set for sure. I have not RP’d in WoW in a long time, but I do want to give it another try with Forever’s scope. Mostly thinking about how to rework some of the events Ive run in the past and what kinda characters I’d need to facilitate it.
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I will be creating an alt on the RP ruleset.
Hoping devs consider putting in an RP-PVP ruleset though as I would main that ruleset over just standard PVP.