Ive heard a tired argument that HC characters should only be allowed to tranfer to PVE era servers on death be cause “pvp integrity”. “It’s unethical to let pve characters transfer to pvp server because they leveled without the chalenge of pvp.”
Do you understand that MANY pvp classic servers have been 1 faction since before TBC? and many of those copied characters were able to paid transfer to any server of their choosing despite having essentially 0 world pvp happen the whole time they were lvling.
When i was lvling my paladin in tbc prepatch on sulfuras i seen maybe a handful of alliance and they were all so tired of being ganked and outnumbered that they wanted no part in pvp and i left them alone.
By this logic all characters who were copied from 100% faction pop realms should be force transferred to pve realms immediately lol.
Alot of these characters that were coppied at TBC were perma-leveled in SM/maradon and was, despite the occasional bloodbath at the entrance, mostly pvp free in contrast to lvling normally. Should these characters also be forced into pve realms?
This rule of not allowing ppl to transfer pve-pvp is dumb. The fact is that AFTER YOU TRANSFER YOU MUST NOW COMMIT TO ENGAGING IN WORLD PVP! Even when doing simple things like getting to a dungeon or getting buffs. And if you’ve ever played wow you’ll understand that you spend MUCH more time AT lvl 60 than when you’re lvling.
This rule is bad currently regardless of the hardcore context and id like to see it just removed. Id imagine most of the people who would use this would not be people abusing the system but people who want to transfer their characters that are permalocked to DEAD pve servers and bring them into the more healthy populated pvp ones.
And i understand people could abuse this for farming items then xfering them to a pvp server but they could only do this once and its not like all the popluated era realms dont have trashed economies already.
And from a Hardcore-only context you can add a mechanic to delete all their items as a punishment for transfering to a pvp realm (or at least the super high-contested items like lotus and arcane crystals/arcanite bars). I feel like this is an acceptable tradeoff as you can continue a character on a pvp-focused realm but you’re handicapped by losing the item progression you gained in HC. You’re at a SEVERE disadvantage in pvp as you lost all your stuff and now have to interact with the world vs those who started off lvling on PVP realms.
Maybe give a bag with a combination of white and green items so character isnt completely nude and maybe give them a “born again” optional cosmetic buff/debuff.
