Why are most people going to a PvP server? ⚔

[Relodis-dathremar (Relodis)]

Good one

I played on a pvp server for many years and will not be in Classic, partly because of douchey jerks.

Welcome to the better side of life around here!

[Dammrogue-dreadmaul]

Watching some of the vids of the big battles makes me want to roll a PVP server… then I remember being ganked

[Jetlie-arthas]

What’s the real reason to go to a PvP server?

World PvP.
Phase 2, Honor Points for Honorable Kills.
Battle Grounds are not till Phase 3.

Why aren’t more players considering a PvE realm?

Would be missing out on an important part of the game.

[Stango-kelthuzad]

Pvp realms just way more fun. You run out of things to do in vanilla on pve servers. Especially the first phases without bgs. Trust me i was on a pve server on launch stayed only for a short time and rolled horde on a pvp server.

[Deloch-thrall]

I’m not even a huge pvp fan, but I will still play on a pvp server for one reason:

My characters feel like they have more value to me.

When WoW first launched, we all (my wife, co-workers, and friends) rolled on a PvE server because we didn’t like the idea of being ganked. After getting to 60 many of us were thinking about quitting the game.

One of our spouse’s co-workers were on a different server and begged us to re-roll on their server before quitting. It was a PvP server but we reluctantly agreed. This saved the game for us!

Ironically, being ganked many times while leveling is what made the game more fun. I’m not saying being ganked was fun, but having to go through that and constantly looking over our shoulder and making other preparations really added life to the game for us. By the time we got our new toons to 60, they felt so much more valuable and ‘real’ to us. The game world itself felt heavier and more immersive. We felt our characters had earned their place in the world.

It also forced a more community aspect onto the game for us. We had to reach out for help more often. Since this was before sharding and cross realm and all that crap you really got to know who the heroes on your server were.

Questing along and you come upon somebody of your faction being ganked and you are able to jump in and turn the tables…being ganked and some stranger jumps in to help you…I wouldn’t trade those experiences for the world.

Unlike in battlegrounds, these experience are random, unplanned, and often unexpected. This makes them so much more valuable. It makes the game feel more like a world than just a themepark on rails.

[Abigaiil-tichondrius (Abigaiil)]

Great post.

This is why the layering scheme really gets me salty. I know you can pvp with layering - but it won’t be the same. People that didn’t experience it as it was, will never understand.

[Kessiaanjr-blackhand]

I’ll be on a pvp server because my guild is. I’m not a hardcore pvper by any stretch of the imagination, but I do expect Classic pvp servers to be overwhelmingly Horde-dominated so it won’t be so different from PvE in terms of actual gameplay, barring a few fights here and there.

Pretty much how WoW is now and has been for almost its entire history.

[Zin-blackrock]

Killing people is fun. Killing only mobs is not. The end.

[Relodis-dathremar (Relodis)]

I beg to differ…

[Zin-blackrock]

You are welcome to do so!

[anon26013520]

In my entire time playing WoW, I’ve been actually “camped”, maybe half a dozen times-ish.

I played PvP servers for a solid six years and only remember being camped twice. Both times by rogues, though.

The game world itself felt heavier and more immersive.

Unironically the reason why I prefer PvP servers. Totally changes the atmosphere. You walk away from the guards at a city and just know that you might die. God, it feels great. Nothing else in the game compares. I mean, monsters just stay in their general locations and only bother you when you bother them, but players are so unpredictable.

“Will that guy wave at me and move on? Will he attack me? Will he wave at me and then attack me? Can I handle him? Should I bring him down first?”

“Vale of Cinders, huh? I better be careful or I might die. Oh, look at that, three players that are clearly grouped up. I better lay low until they move on.”

Totally different game.

[Dimitra-kelthuzad]

I’m playing on a pvp server because in vanilla I was ALL about that see red, kill red lifestyle.

[Evanson-emerald-dream]

Ohhhh we can only hope.

[Davrille-moon-guard]

Because objectively the only difference between a pvp and a pve server is that on a pvp server players of the other faction can be attacked without their consent. Other than that the two server types are exactly the same. So for someone who doesn’t care about wpvp a pvp server is actually a far worse chose.

first off, not sure why the need to repetitively say something 20 times but word it differently each round; it makes no sense.
secondly, this is exactly why they get called “carebears”- no danger or care in the world… just pick an herb here… kill a mob there… but then beats on chest “ugh. we better than everyone! just look at my achieves!”

yeah… big whoop.

And yet threads trying to neg players into rolling on PvP servers never go away.

Like yours.

[Davrille-moon-guard]

but I do expect Classic pvp servers to be overwhelmingly Horde-dominated so it won’t be so different from PvE in terms of actual gameplay, barring a few fights here and there.

Pretty much how WoW is now and has been for almost its entire history.

This is the elephant in the room the PvP stans desperately try to ignore. It’ll be fun to read the threads complaining about the lack of the opposite faction a few months down the road.

[Fookí-sargeras (Fookí)]

And yet threads trying to neg players into rolling on PvP servers never go away.

Like yours.

no, i couldn’t care less if they do or don’t. just don’t take digs at my play style without thinking i won’t defend it.

[Chete-moon-guard]

Pvp players for the most part feel, and can argue effectively, that pvp servers offer a better total gaming experience for both pve and pvp. Progression carry’s more weight and a greater sense of accomplishment when on a pvp server because of the challenges of the pvp server.

Well no, they can argue that for them personally a pvp server might be better, they can’t argue that it is better for anyone else. And people have given plenty of reasons why they find pvp servers worse in terms of immersion and progression for them personally.

Because objectively the only difference between a pvp and a pve server is that on a pvp server players of the other faction can be attacked without their consent. Other than that the two server types are exactly the same. So for someone who doesn’t care about wpvp a pvp server is actually a far worse chose.

Some would argue consent is given when one chooses to roll on a pvp server.

[Stellan-khaz-modan (Stellan)]

Why aren’t more players considering a PvE realm? Thoughts?

I probably shouldn’t get into this pissing contest but what makes you think most people won’t go Alliance? They did in Vanilla.

[Lagspike-duskwood (Lagspike)]

Just posting here to the the 1000th post in the thread!

Also pvp servers suck

[Nearo-emerald-dream (Nearo)]

Because people want to play World of Warcraft.