New to P99. Benefits of starting Blue vs Green?

[Onos]

Hi all. Planning on starting on either Green vs Blue in the near future with a couple of friends. I’ve been lurking on the forums for a couple of days, and I’m wondering if anyone could help with some more insight into the state of the Blue server now that Green is live and on Kunark.

Are any new characters starting at this point with Blue? We are not that concerned with being on the bleeding edge of end-game content and raiding for first kills, etc., so would we benefit more from playing on Blue where it may be a little less competitive to camp certain dungeon mobs? And slightly easier to buy gear upgrades?

Or would we have difficulty filling out our group of 3 because green has a far more active player base?

At this point the events that I would’ve wanted to catch on a new progression server are passed, and I really like a lot of Velious for later game leveling, so is the population disparity really so significant that it wouldn’t make sense to start in Blue?

Also, random question but I’ve seen the guild name Venerate around on the forums. Any players from Venerate on Winters Roar/Shards of Dalaya?

Thanks for reading.

[Silencia]

I'd highly recommend green over blue. There's simply more to do and more to look forward to currently. I have seen 4~ players from Shards of Dalaya including myself, but I don't think they're in any specific guild.

[kaizersoze]

Blue has more content and it's less crowded in general. Some areas still have good opportunities for PUGs if thats your thing, plenty of places to solo as well, and blue has...well...better gear for less plat. Unless you plan on neckbearding super hard to get legacy items, which starting from scratch I highly doubt, I'd say consider blue.

[Onos]

I'd highly recommend green over blue. There's simply more to do and more to look forward to currently. I have seen 4~ players from Shards of Dalaya including myself, but I don't think they're in any specific guild.


Cool, I played Shards...but not for about 14 years at this point (crazy to think about). I was in a guild called Venerate that was just breaking into the raiding scene around 2005 or 06 haha. My char (Junius) may have been used later on, I have no idea.

In terms of things to look forward to, do you mean specific one time events that have passed on blue? Or just things like Hole/VP and Velious? I think I'd be fine starting with all that. I dont expect to hit 60 for months at least.


And thanks Kaiz...I was mainly concerned that there will be nobody still doing classic/planar raiding on blue all that often by the time we are ready. I never raided classic, Kunark, or Velious when it was current on live. But PUGS or a casual guild would be my speed at this point, so Blue sounds promising.

[Ananka]

Blue offers Velious right now and cheaper equipment but if your just starting out why not choose Green. With Kunark just coming out, tons of people are playing level 1 ish characters of all flavours but especially Iksars.

Praise Amun!

[Gustoo]

The only legacy item on green you can get that you can't get on blue right now is like the circlet of shadow which is an SK / necromancer item.

For me its a tossup. Do you want kunark armor to be free / garbage (blue) or do you want it to be high end (green)

Both are great servers.

[kjs86z]

Blue = mostly chill, normal, well-adjusted folks.

Green = weaponized autism

[Gustoo]

Blue was the most intense poopsocked place I've ever seen in my entire life. I don't think all of those people left their blue dragon hoards for green pastures. But maybe some of them did. Certainly the most competitive people are competing on green right now. Who knows what blue folks are up to!

[Topgunben]

Hi all. Planning on starting on either Green vs Blue in the near future with a couple of friends. I’ve been lurking on the forums for a couple of days, and I’m wondering if anyone could help with some more insight into the state of the Blue server now that Green is live and on Kunark.

Are any new characters starting at this point with Blue? We are not that concerned with being on the bleeding edge of end-game content and raiding for first kills, etc., so would we benefit more from playing on Blue where it may be a little less competitive to camp certain dungeon mobs? And slightly easier to buy gear upgrades?

Or would we have difficulty filling out our group of 3 because green has a far more active player base?

At this point the events that I would’ve wanted to catch on a new progression server are passed, and I really like a lot of Velious for later game leveling, so is the population disparity really so significant that it wouldn’t make sense to start in Blue?

Also, random question but I’ve seen the guild name Venerate around on the forums. Any players from Venerate on Winters Roar/Shards of Dalaya?

Thanks for reading.

Blue is basically full of veteran P99 players. You will still find some low level characters, but most of these will be power leveled to 50 in a short amount of time.

There is no reason to not go green because Kunark is upon us now.

[Croco]

All the raid content on both servers is killed each week. There are tons of guilds on blue doing all the content from naggy/vox/phinny all the way up to end game velious.

If you don't care about snagging legacy items, most of which are already gone at this point, blue is by far the better choice. A huge portion of the toxic end game poopsockers took up residence on green and the stories coming out of that server dwarf any blue drama by miles. On blue there are 3-5 guilds competing for the raid mobs depending on which zone you're talking about. On green 1 guild kills 95% of the current end game content so I'm told.

Honestly it depends on what your goals are. Do you want to get sleepers tomb loot from before the sleeper wakes up? Green is your only option. If you don't care about that and you want to have an easier time leveling, have instant access to velious zones/gear, and have way more options of guilds to join if you do decide to start raiding then blue is the clear choice.

[Onos]

Thanks all, I appreciate the responses. Leaning towards blue based on the fact that I don't think realistically I have a chance at something like Sleeper loot, or being in a competitive guild. Laid back and easier access to decent gear sounds more my speed. Will probably mess around on both a bit until my RL group can join me.

Thanks again!

[Cacos]

Did they ever confirm if green will eventually merge into blue? Just curious because if it does eventually merge, blue is the obvious choice for casuals. Take advantage of the economy while everything is more affordable if we all are ending up in the same place anyways.

[NPC]

If I was starting now I would play blue, green is full of toxic azz hats trolling everything in site. Stay far, far away for the love of god. If i could move all my characters I would from green to blue I would.

[Bardp1999]

Green will be a lot more active for leveling - Blue is mainly all level 60s doing end game stuff.

Green would be my recommendation for anyone starting new

[Naonak]

Green if you like rusty weapons.

Blue if you like cheap or free shinnies.

[Croco]

Green will be a lot more active for leveling - Blue is mainly all level 60s doing end game stuff.

Green would be my recommendation for anyone starting new

90% of those 60's do end game stuff about 15% of the week and the rest of the time they're leveling alts.

[Eldini]

Blue if you DO NOT care about experiencing Kunark while it's "Current" (I.e. now) and if you don't want to see Velious at launch.
Blue already has all of that and you can go dabble to your hearts content, maybe pick up some nice cheap twink loot from a heavily saturated economy.

Ultimately I think green is ending up like blue, merged, or run in parallel - then "Green" recycles...

This is just a guess, though.

Green feels very active and I thoroughly enjoy it, except for the PetitionQuest which is prevalent in all forms of endgame... Looking at my guild (Seal Team), and the other big guilds on the box.

[Fammaden]

Thanks all, I appreciate the responses. Leaning towards blue based on the fact that I don't think realistically I have a chance at something like Sleeper loot, or being in a competitive guild. Laid back and easier access to decent gear sounds more my speed. Will probably mess around on both a bit until my RL group can join me.

Thanks again!

Absolutely check both out since you are in a position to do so, but it might be hard to get a feel without leveling up past 20 or 30.

The biggest difference now is simply population. If you like pick up groups there's just more of them across all level ranges on green. But there's also steep crowding 50+ right now.

If you are ok getting to 40+ with just your crew or soloing then you won't mind blue and might prefer it. There is grouping on blue too, and if you seek out people you might find them willing to join you. Its not all PL'ing but it is a lot of twinked soloing prior to 40+.

[Ananka]

I've prepared my accounts on Green and Blue incase of an eventual merger. If I have 6 characters on one Blue account I'll have only 2 on the same account on Green and none of my major character names were copied. Having said that, I'm having my doubts about an eventual merger. There are so many people playing characters with the same name on both servers. Are we going to have a bunch of people with x added to a character? I think the higher ups should have mentioned hey don't use the same name as your level 60 character on Blue just incase we do merge.

Praise Amun!