Ever since I saw the upcoming free server transfers I have been trying to figure out whether Grob or DD will have more actual RP.
I’ve heard it both ways, people saying they’ve had more RP in one than the other so I’m honestly just uncertain. Will the PvPers looking for less queues go to DD or will they stay on Grob? There’s so many questions. I want an RPPvP server with actual RP rather than just PvP.
I’ve been playing a couple characters on DD Alliance side and I’ve seen exactly 0 RP. It just seems to be treated as a normal pvp realm by nearly everyone. I’ve seen a few guilds that talk a bit about RP, but it seems mostly non existent. I’m hoping it’s just because everyone is leveling, but I see a lot of characters with names that say they never intend to RP at all. Just seems weird to pick that realm for them.
This is what I fear. Rolling off of Grobb would seem like a horrible idea right now.
Then it’s a chicken egg problem. Need to start somewhere if you want to bring RP on dd
It’s hard to say. I rerolled from Grob at level 8. I’ve RPd on both, both good experiences. Little less mob competition and no queue is why I went to DD.
It seems to basically be the same story on both realms.
RP is there if you look for it.
Both realms saw an influx of PVPers looking for realms that not full during launch. As such mass reporting of names is still going on and that sort of thing will slowly be filtered out.
The majority of players are mostly just focused on leveling. Regardless of where you go. They are in love with the game again and enjoying the journey. RP that happens tends to be short and spontaneous while questing.
As time passes. Events will become more regular and certain areas of the game will have a higher saturation of those seeking RP.
I suspect after the transfers clear, the servers will be close to the same pop size. With a slight edge given to Grob.
Things to consider.
Deviate has a superior name and will gain players overtime based on that alone.
Grob was the first live RP-PVP server. So it is more establisehd at this time.
Deviate is EST. Grob is PST. This may impact raid and event times.
I sort of expected there to be less rp here in the beginning honestly. I think most folks are interested in getting a decent start on levelling their characters and letting the sorts of rp guilds they want begin to form in the meantime.
I plan on doing some rp and being involved with the community, but so far I havent done much outside of leveling. I have noticed a lot of people excitedly talking about hoping that grobbulus will be like emeral dream used to be.
Give it time. More people are on grob so that might be your best bet. I still haven’t even decided on what kind of druid I want to rp, other than not wanting to do the generic nelf druid thing. Maybe I’ll ask grob forums for ideas on that…
You can be a damaged idiot savant druid. You ate the wrong mushrooms once and it broke you for life. But the call of nature still flows through you.
Lol perfect.
I’ve been on RP PvP realms since tbc and DD is just another RP PvP realm with a lot of RP potential.
Yes there’s some PvP players that are new to RPPvP, I’m in a PvP guild, and I see members having to rename their characters pretty often and it makes me laugh.
Ok. So im speaking from my experience only so far, but deviate delight hasn’t been super RP heavy as I expected an RP PVP server would be.
My main is on that server and so far, all Ive experienced is mostly negativity in general chat and little group engagement (for questing etc…).
Comparing this to say my level 4 character on Bloodsail Buccaneers’s, where chat is almost always RP heavy and you see players questing around you (only at level 4 too!), im going to give BB the point on this one.
I tried Grobb… but its the PST that just doesnt work for me. If I was PST id go to Grobb instead of BB.
Im so so sad I picked Deviate Delight as my first server when classic came out. I shouldve known better.
Oh wow. Thats a complete opposite experience from what I had.
I met some RP players but I’ve always been more PvP than RP, maybe thats why we’ve had a different experience. I hope we can have solid RP guilds eventually.
Grob, at least on Horde side has a good amount of RP already. I’m seeing a fair amount of guild events…
One with a raid on Astrannar
Well, Grob was the only established RP-PvP server prior to launch, so many of the retail guilds went there and set up shop and made plans for weeks before the game launched.
Deviate Delight was opened suddenly several hours after launch, and not many people knew about it because they were already sitting in a Grob queue. Those people decided to stick it out on Grob for the most part, since that’s where they had already started playing.
Now, I’ve rp’d a bit on both servers, and it seems about the same; General, Trade, etc are mostly filled w/ OOC chat (this is the same on every RP-PvP server I’ve been on, though), but if you make a bit of effort by either just RPing yourself or going to look for it, you’ll find it.
I was a Ravenholdt native from day 1 of TBC up until about the end of MoP, when my guild decided to move to Emerald Dream, where I’ve been ever since. On any RP-PvP server, you have your main population who is there for PvP or just to play the game, and RPers kinda doing their own thing, but they are definitely there!
On DD, I’ve had short impromptu RP sessions pop up in a lot of places (waiting on the zeppelin, hanging out in the Crossroads inn, slow-walking around Orgrimmar, etc) and it’s very refreshing. Sure, we have a few trolls and refugees who came looking to escape their queues, but a lot of Grob population is the same who rolled there on day 1 when every other server was full, so it’s kinda the same story.
Wherever you decide to go, I hope you have a lot of fun and make friends!
oh I heard about a raid on astrannar when I was in stonetalon like 2 days ago
Ravenholdt gang here too. I was in S I N alliance side and smaller pvp guilds like Sneaky Bunny Death Squad horde side
I was in a tiny guild called Corsair on Horde side. Varicite was my main. You guys liked to hunt us a lot, but then again, you guys tended to hunt just about everybody.
Had some amazingly fun battles against your guild out on Isle of QD though!
Glad to have more RH ppl on DD, I met so many good ppl on it.
I hope we can get a solid community going like old Ravenholdt.
DD i think is the superior server for actual rp-pvp crowd.
There is a big crowd of ‘i dont have time to compete against hardcore pvp’ers so im going to roll on rp-pvp because its easier’ on Grob. Grob community to me, is toxic.