I believe Blue is being left to slowly die as the "beta" server, while Green/Teal are the "prod" servers that will continue to exist long term, open question being whether they will merge at some point. My guess would be yes long term, as it just doesn't seem likely to me that there will be enough pop to support two servers, but that may be very long term- like well after Velious comes out and most people have done everything they're interested in doing and are off doing other things. But I could be wrong and they stay separate, no one is sure at this point.
If you're even vaguely sane and/or have a job that doesn't allow you to be a walking zombie on Monday, don't even consider jboots/manastone/rubi bp etc. They're completely camped by people who answer false to both of those qualifications and it's like 30 or 40 hours of staying awake to get any of those kinds of items.
Jboots in particular I've never gotten as the gap between when you can get them and the time that 10 dose SOW potions become a acceptable/trivial expense isn't very wide.
Also, stay the hell out of Highpass Hold Keep, it has a higher then classic (to most people) ZEM, and again crazy people who treat the game as a racing simulator are packed in there being full-on crazy time with constant conflict and people getting really upset when they can't get a group.
Same was mostly true on Blue, the "competitive" racers are dominated by none too well adjusted people, and in my opinion it's a much better plan to generally stay out of the narrow paths they take and play the other 90% of the game and worry about whether you're having a good time, and not whether you're making n% higher exp than other people.
If exp rate and raiding and having the very best items is what drives you, prepare for lots of lost sleep and regular conflict with people who manage to still act like 12 year olds even though they're allegedly well into adulthood now.
Outside of that fairly small but noisy slice of population, everyone I've met both Blue and now Green have been nice and helpful and generally very cool to hang with.
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