I'm not knowledgeable about the WoW endgame open world pvp, but my understand is that like nearly every WoW server ever has had a big imbalance favoring one faction or another on a server by server basis. So this can be expected at the end game either way, you are on in the favored faction and its easy game or not and you are getting ganked by masses of the other faction. As far as getting items, dungeons will be where most players are and this is not a problem there, which was never the case in EQ where there are no instances or sharding. I think you get HKs in BGs so open world pvp is not required for HKs, and I believe the best end game pvp gear was always found in raid instances anyway. Maybe someone who knows better can confirm.

As far as why someone would do this, for the lols. They enjoy making people mad and then those people summoning their friends and making a tussle. Often they will then logon to the faction that they are trolling and enjoy the reaction. Basically they are just bored neckbearding. They view you playing on a pvp server as part of a package deal where you are not free to just level your toon until 60 and bg or whatever. You signed up for a pvp server so 'prepare your body' or whatever.

Vanilla did not allow you to play both sides of the coin. When you made a decision you stuck with it. People having alliance and horde is a private server thing and its awful

Indeed but they will just get multiple accounts. If you are going to go through the trouble of setting up a full geared 30 level character in some pvp quest deathtrap an extra $15 to taste nerd tears is nothing.

I made the (mistake?) of watching some classic WOW on Twitch last night and now I'm jonesin. Azeroth is such an alluring mistress...

^ for real. they raised the level cap to 40 in the beta and all thats done is make me anxious to play classic

just seeing the hotkey artwork is making me want to dive back in. this is going to turn poorly.

and lvl 40 is such a great spot to jump in on with the level cap now. world opens up a bit plus you get mounts.

I tried making a macro. It's so complicated lol

watching some twitch streams has made me want to really avoid whatever servers streamers are playing on. really hoping they try to concentrate on one server to circlejerk.

just seeing asmongold asking for gold and mats and kids tripping over their dicks to give him everything they have is gonna be ridiculous, which just happened on his beta stream.

i think staysafe needed jade for making an item and people just ran to him from all over and he suddenly had 25+ jade for free.

cdew currently has a horde of minions helping him kill skull(??) elites so that he alone can loot them for getting BiS lvl 40 gear

https://www.avoidstreamers.com/

i hadn't seen the video linked in that, pretty good. asmongold "reacted" to it and said pretty much everything is true.

he also believes that none of the big streamers are going to be able to play on pvp realms, but that was a fairly old prediction.

esfand and tips will go pvp, not sure about the rest

mini bump. the private server i play opened up a fresh server to fully give people a server to practice their leveling for classic and all. first to 60 was 2 days 17 hrs. there are some differences between pservers and classic, but the previous record is going to get shattered. a full day sooner for sure, if not more.

are there any new estimates on the difference in leveling speeds? the last i saw was someone estimated it was 30% longer on actual vanilla servers than privates. which would put it at around 3.5 days.

Dynamic respawns for mages specifically makes a WORLD of difference, but regardless... That isn't even close. Leveling paths have been waaaay refined

All the records people reference are also based on solo leveling, no?

For pelt collection quests, everyone in the group will need to get their own, but overall downtime is reduced significantly when there are more people involved.

I said earlier ITT that it's all but guaranteed that MC is cleared by week 2. From what I'm reading recently, I think it's at least 70% that Rag dies before the first reset. It takes people on private servers 20 minutes to clear MC? Yes that's with full gear and consumables, but as long as the tank isn't getting 1-shot, you can double or triple the kill times and it's no big deal. You don't even need to be level 60 to go in and clear MC, again as long as your tank isn't dying in a single swing.

There's too much nerd cred at stake to have Molten Core last longer than the first week. Never underestimate WoW nerds.

yes 100% but world first already happened 15 years ago so there won't be much of a deal of it

Out of anything Classic related, I'm actually most interested to see how the economy shakes out.

15 years of advances in Goblineering and addon tech are no joke when you have perfect hindsight as well.

But since I quit Vanilla so early the first time around, I'm not even sure what people would spend the gold on. Modern WoW gold doesn't completely lose its value until you have a 9 digit wallet.

I assume goldcap is going to be back to 214k. What were the "goldcap" items from Vanilla?

Probably WoWTCG loot?

EDIT - Nevermind this, looked it up and it looks like the loot began in TBC.

nothing, which is why people weren't really goblins back then. once you get your mount and have enough for raid repairs and you can just have your alt farm herbs for flasks there's not much need for $

It's a bit uncomfortable like that. Half of the players play classic, the other half play bfa. So active accounts in servers start going smaller and smaller.

4 pve's
5 pvp's
2 rp..

sure doesn't seem like a lot.

also sharing those 11 with South america. i saw someone saying that the brazilian contigent is choosing 1 of the pvp's so that will be a large portion of non english on one of the pvp's already.

werent there like a billions servers at launch last time. maybe im wrong i remember there being quite a list.


seems bad

it's the perfect amount of servers and you can dodge streamers

i will be playing on Herod if anyone wants to join that server