I started out on WRA long long time ago but then swapped realms to a pvp non-rp realm and to alliance.
I joined a WRA guild recently but I think they do not RP (it seems they used to)
I have done some gillie RPs. I think I might be bad at rp tbh and wish I could observe it happening to understand the ettiquete and behaviors
I have had a list of ideas I thought would be good like roleplaying as paladins during the fall of stratholme. I’m also an out of bounds explorer and know a lot of cool places that could have RP.
From what I’ve gleamed I have heard quite a bit of RP stuff has been destroyed with the advent of warmode and certain restrictions like on consumables, toys, and certain quest items. And that people do a sort of story telling RP where they just talk about their characters? Or at least i have been told something like that. Also that WRA is for horde and Moonguard alliance but I have toons in both.
Think the best advice I can give is just to dive in! If it’s just mingling in public RP, walking up into a conversation you find interesting and getting to know folks is a way to start. Get involved with various events you may see people posting, too!
A number of things are guild based, too, so if you’re looking for something more organized you may want to partake in an in character interview, and see if it will be up their alley?
And yeah, unfortunately RP is largely split between Moon Guard and WrA, with MG being mostly Alliance and WrA being mostly Horde, but cross faction events are on the rise, and there may be a time we can just pretend it’s a big ol’ RP server instead of two big ones.
But yeah! Just get involved! Best way to get a story rolling.
You’re more than welcome to join the WrA-RP Discord. We have an event calendar, guild listings, and lots of friendly RPers. There are resources, places to work on characters and more:
You must let go of all your earthly doubts and worries. RP is a fine art, but if you block the roots of your passion it will only be harder to enjoy such a thing.
Your character is a personality that you create, that you act out in a specific and designed way. You might vision a backstory for your character and create a lengthy amount of stories to tell, but your best stories will be the ones you made with other people. Or you could be a silent barwalker who has “no past” that is to say its a past you don’t wish to speak about.
But there is one thing that all characters must do. Interact. Without interacting with others, you will find difficulty in maintaining an interest in this hobby, and thats okay too if it just isn’t your thing. At the end of the day, watching rp from a distance will not create the experience that locks you in, so I urge you to just rip the band-aid and jump head first into it.
As for warmode and toy and consumable restrictions, they’ve done very little to hinder the community, and more helpful tools are being implemented every patch to facilitate people’s rp, like the size changing noggenfogger in Undermine for example. Edit: heavy sharding in major cities during patch releases, however, has had a strong effect. During those times on MG, people tend to go to either Redridge or Darkshire. Uncertain though if WrA is as affected by that problem as MG. Someone else may tell you what happens to horde RP in that case.
Hopefully you give it a shot, though! It’s not too intimidating once you start! There’s lots of good guides on charactee RP ideas by the youtuber Doronsmovies that I recommend.
That is the only way you’re going to find even slightly consistent RP. Outside of guilds, RP is basically dead because both Blizzard and RPers themselves couldn’t be bothered to stand up to the non-RPer parasites coming for “the community”, lack of sharding, or just easy War Mode.
This isn’t true in the slightest.
RPers are all over the place in SW on MG, guilded or not you can find consistent RP easily. Guilds are more likely to take you out of the city though, and while I don’t doubt there are a lot of players moving to RP servers for their unique server features, they very rarely step on the toes of people who are actually there to RP. And if they do, remember that RP servers have rules unique to them outlined in the ToS that can and will be enforced by GMs. Not so much the character name policy since nobody really cares about that, but particularly in regards to harassment.
In regards to sharding, there are workarounds! It takes a coordinated effort but this has been made easier than ever thanks to cross faction guilds. It’s not nearly the obstacle it used to be.
I will say a guild makes organizing and attending events much easier, but even then anyone and everyone is invited to ours, and I know I have been able to just stumble into them every now and then. There are resources available to make sure folks catch things!
I’m not sure who these ‘non-RPer parasites’ are, or what WM has to do with this? But the scene is still alive, guild or not! I’d argue it’s bigger than ever, with it being more accessible for folks to join in!
You’re on the same server as me. What reason do you hand to blatantly LIE like this?
We are absolutely surrounded by non-RPers and they mock us.
Blizzard hasn’t actively enforced RP server rules in over a freakin’ DECADE and the only way to get them to acknowledge the rules is to mass report which obviously doesn’t happen because we’re the minority and incredibly complacent, like yourself. Not to mention that’s really just automation and happens if anything receives enough reports.
I’m on Wymrest too. Wyrmrest is even worse, there’s barely even guilds nowadays.
Why are you LYING?
Is “futurama name guy” giving you a cut of his profits or something?
I think your heart has been twisted into believing the issue is on a grander scale than it is. I’ll admit, assuming the GMs will take care of anything that isnt a mass report is pretty overly optimistic of me though, I won’t lie. The moderation needs to come back to WoW big time.
But no, I’m not surrounded by non RPers, because I choose to surround myself with RPers. I very rarely see someone without a TRP3 profile because I am always where they are. Even out doing current content I see them all the time. And not just people who installed the addon for a joke, or didn’t fill it out, but people who put thought into their characters and are out of the RP hub playing the game as them. I sometimes see joke profiles, I sometimes see a straggling Goldshiree with an obscene profile, but if I played 8 hours a day for a full week I could count those profiles in that timeframe on my fingers. I can’t say the same for people invested earnestly in RP as a hobby. I see too many to count.
I don’t know how you’ve established this view of MG’s RP community, but however it happened I’m sorry you experienced that, all I can say is from my own experiences there is no such divide between RPer and not.
So in other words, you pretty much never leave Cathedral square, or in Guuah’s case a 30ft patch of ground in the Valley of Honor. There’s a whole wide world, of warcraft, out there friend and it thinks you’re a weenie that should get off their server.
In the same way you see diapergnomes “all the time”, they’re there but they are way way waaaaaaaaaaaaaay outnumbered. Also like 70% of people that do have TRP3 profiles don’t really have TRP3 profiles. “Daddyhealer”, “Beefcannon”, and “Illllidan” (altered names of people I’m looking at right now outside the cathedral) are completely blank without even a changed name, IE they’re just there to read the profiles of people that actually care.
While I agree that RP should be more spread out than the whole upper section of SW and that ungodly little square of Valley of Honor especially, your stance on it still contradicts my continued experiences. There’s obviously a serious diverge in our game experiences that have enabled this conversation to continue on without getting anywhere, but I’ll cease any arguing over such things now.
If you want RP on MG, you go to the mage district, park, cathedral, cemetary, and port. It’s unfortunate that the only place to really find it is there. But there’s a lot of it. There’s a guild, or was, I’m not sure if its still active, that hosted RP 24/7 in Gilneas after the reclamation questline came out. RP is concentrated in one area but arguing with one another in the forums isn’t really gonna fix that, I think we both know. If we want people to go to other parts of the world we need to make a stink to the RP community in game and not the forums. I think we can all strive to make RP servers what they deserve to be, but unfortunately the players will not want to leave the hub by their own decision, only out of necessity like in the case of city sharding on a new patch day. We want the wider world to be used, you and me both, but there’s also a problem with doing that. Separating and spreading the RP out makes it harder to find especially now that everyone is grown used to the hub area approach. Ease of access is why people were drawn to the central hub areas to begin with. Thats why it still works today. Just because people don’t go out to RP in the open world doesn’t mean the RPers are in some losing war against the non-RPers. There really “is no war” haha. People want to RP elsewhere, but you have to find them with everyone else. It’s a stepping stone and it’s not any different in any other modern MMO with an RP community sadly. ESO has some tavern in Orsinium, XIV has Ul’dah, etc.
It stays like this because it’s easiest this way for everyone, much to the dismay of nostalgic RPers from days gone by like us.
Neither of those had dedicated RP servers, so unlike WoW the “Walks-With-Memes” & “Iwanna Bangyshtola” 's have a legit reason to be there.
FFXIV is an interesting choice as an example because y’know how their RP scene go so strong? Gatekeeping, so much gatekeeping, and actually caring about RP’s continued existence. Maybe WoW needs more weebs.
No, there isn’t “a lot”. Hence it being limited to 2 little areas. 2 tiny islands in a vast ocean of people that have no interest in RP and often outright revile it.
Pretty sure they’re gone but even so, that’s one bloody event.
I think we also both know that’s because it’s far faaaaaaaaaaar too late. If we actually cared 10-15+ years ago, yeah it could have fixed it.
No, we don’t. You don’t care. You say you do, but then make it exceptionally clear you have no desire to actually do anything and find any questioning of the status quo offensive.
Players are not in those 2 hubs out of some deep abiding love for them, it’s because where else can they go? They’re the last tiny bastions. Good luck RPing in the Trade District.
No, atmosphere and functionality was why they were drawn there which is why the current hubs weren’t always the hubs. The Horde’s og “hub” Silvermoon is dead now despite belfs being the Horde’s most numerous and most RPer-played rice by a mile. There’s that little RP left on Horde servers. Ironforge is equally dead and it was quite popular back in the day. The Alliance is exclusively in Cathedral Square, and the Horde in that little spot in The Valley of Honor at all, for the same reason: Where else can they go?
Now. Wasn’t hard to find when RP servers were RP servers. Your example of FFXIV even disproves your assertion, non-guild RP is far from limited to the Waking Sands in Ul’dah.
There is “no war” in the same way there is no war against Germany. That war is loooooong over, still happened though. “Everyone else” being the ravening horde of memesters, bankalts, and tradechat comedians that now outnumber us 100 to 1. I “want” a Ferrari but like yourself & a functional RP community, I have no interest in actually doing anything to get one.
Again, no, it’s very different. ESO and FFXIV don’t even have official RP servers. While we let ours die, they went out and made RP servers
It “stays this way” because we gave up, and you’re “nostalgic” in the same way I’m nostalgic for what I felt like 20lbs ago. I could get that feeling back but ewww that requires effort and it’s “easiest” to just shrug my shoulders and tell myself there’s no way to recapture it.
I think the train has gone off the rails a bit here.
I believe the original discussion was taking RP out of capital cities? Which we do! A lot of our stuff is currently in Undermine but we’re often going abroad! 'Cause yeah, I don’t like VoH at all. It’s just an easy hub for folks to gather in.
Things are changing! It’s just going to take a hot minute. With the release of Silvermoon 2.0 I’m sure things will change a lot.
Sorry i let this go direlict guys. My guild is WRA and was gonna do something but the organizer has some irl stuff to tend to, I think, so I thought maybe I would try to organize it but I am inexperienced.
I don’t necessarily want to move my main to WRA, because from what I understand RP realms have their own personal PVP shards and I am really big on world pvp, I think it’s a ton of fun, so I don’t wanna get isolated on a single realms shard, you know what I mean. I mean it would be cool for rp-pvp but I might just make an alt for that.
In the mean time I have just tried asking questions about rp to people when someone with TRP3 walks through dornogol. I want to walk up someone but most people have short, incomplete/empty profiles, or don’t denote walk up status or if they’re in character.
I used to do some ghillie RP back in the day but I literally never see anyone posting public RP events in lfg these days, so I don’t know where to go. I suppose I could transfer my mage to WRA since it’s what I wanted to RP with but I also wanna rp with my monk, so maybe I could make a monk on WRA that looks the same with some cosmetic stuff idk.
After I do that though, where do I go to find the people that wanna chat?
On WRA, the rp community is on the Horde and it’s very small. You can find rpers there in the Valley of Honor at the tavern in that area.
As for rppvp, by all means that just doesn’t really exist in retail anymore. You might still find world pvp in war mode as long as you’re in current content content zones though. Just nothing dynamic like rppvp
