I miss the world PVP of BFA, intense battles over ground while having PVP orientated world quests.
Are there any Alliance based RP-PVP guilds within the WRA server, that would be interested in collaborating some campaign material?
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I don’t think there are enough Alliance players on WrA currently who would be interested. It would have to be cross server. There was an event scheduled earlier this year with MG. If you roll down in the forums, you’ll see the post for it.
Based on the response from MG, I would recommend coordinating the battles outside of the populated areas. That seemed to be a sticking point in the past.
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The game doesn’t really give us a lot to fight over so we just don’t right now, and the Season 2 PvP scene has been… oh god it’s horrendous.
My suggestion would be to wait until the PvP season is coming to a close and 10.2 is announced, then people might come back to throw down.
Some of the best friends I made in this game came from RP PvP and building out stories from our Tol Barad rivalries. I wish there would be a resurgence of that though I am not certain where to start or even if it’s possible at all.
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World PVP has taken a pretty big hit in WrA due to poor phasing, unbalanced factions, and lack of incentives to really bring people into the fold. I didn’t pvp during BFA but from what I see, you have toys, cosmetics, objectives you can play towards, etc. That is not even mentioning the revived faction animosity due to BFA’s storyline.
I am currently running one of a handful of PVP guilds on WrA, and we have since shifted our focus towards BGs/RBGs. I feel like other PVP guilds have gone down a similar route as I rarely see them nowadays in wpvp as compared to even Shadowlands. At the end of the day, people just want to play, and queuing up for BGs as a group is much simpler than hoping a rival group would show up.
Coordination is certainly possible. I have made events with other PVP guilds and communities but those are few and far between and are extremely difficult to balance, but still possible for sure.
Your best luck for WPVP right now are those sparks quests on Tuesday, but you will have to phase over to another server in LFR to make it happen. I’ve seen huge battles as of a few months ago over there. Idk if enough people still want to farm sparks, but its worth a shot.
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all the rp-pvp guild are on MG
maybe if they knew there was good competition here theyd migrate? I’d love to have some battles in the EK
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I dont want to RP PVP because if I lose I will have to delete my character.
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Even speaking as a guild with a history of RP-PVP, the story just isn’t there to facilitate it anymore.
We’re role players! We make our own story!
Also, theres a Scarlet uprising in Lordaeron (again) maybe someone in Alliance was funding it?
Who in the livid hell would stand up to take that villain bat?
for pvp? I would…
…i have
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Yeah but you’re always unga, Morde. That’s your thing.
oh im not allowed at the United Nations General Assembly anymore…
…cause of all the pvp
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Someone would have to REALLY want to fight and ignore a lot of other story concerns. To me, the coherency of the story is more important than the possibility of RP-PVP.
The current WoW atmosphere reminds me a lot of the cold war tensions with Vanilla WoW. The whole “coming together after a mutual enemy” with a bit more emphasis on actually trying to hold on to an armistice. But that does not mean conflicts aren’t possible. I can’t imagine such a sterile and perfect setting where no agents are conducting subterfuge, people of authority are not using proxy agents, or figures are conveniently looking the other way when opportunities to undermine the other are present
I think writing RP/PvP plotlines require more nuance and craftiness, something that I think is better overall, than just the simple “Lok’tar we at war, we raid your city /rage” as there’s been in the past. But I’m not sure if it’s entirely accurate to say the setting doesn’t facilitate it anymore.
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Sir, this is WoW
I can have personal standards!
It makes perfect sense that there would be subterfuge, rogue agents, angry citizen’s militias, and discontented nobles or military brass funding mercenary bands or splinter factions to antagonistic ends. It also seems to me that RP-PvP as a playstyle doesn’t even need to be about Horde/Alliance conflict at all; as long as one mechanically puts Alliance characters on one side and Horde characters on the other, it could be any two groups of any IC allegiances fighting it out.
I think the issue with setting up ongoing RP-PvP isn’t that the setting doesn’t facilitate it, but that facilitation on a player level is now more complicated. I assume it always took work to connect with people on the opposing side with whom you worked well OOC and to handle the scheduling and win/loss balance and so on, but everyone involved could at least be playing their own characters’ and guilds’ experience of the conflict while also being the antagonist for the other side. Now, the only way you can do that is to find someone who’s not only a good OOC match but who also happens to be playing the renegades, which narrows the pool, or to set up a sufficiently large but well-matched community in which everyone is willing to take turns dressing up as each other’s campaign mobs rather than focusing on their own characters and guilds full time – which I think sounds really neat, but I don’t know how hard that would or wouldn’t be to set up.
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I’ll be honest, since we lost Southshore, any real desire to World PVP on my end died completely.
The greatest crime in WoW’s development history was shattering the load bearing wall that was the Tarren Mill/Southshore World PVP.
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theres Stromgarde now! if they stop playing with warfront phasing and give it to Alliance properly