Would you ever honestly go to red server?

[Brut]

There's no "played it early when it was good, not anymore".
Don't like all the new rules, don't like Kunark & Velious on a pvp server (especially when stuck in Kunark farm for years), don't like the vztz tryhard community that's ever rampant on the server.

[myriverse]

I came to EverQuest back in 1999 to get away from the PVP of UO. Nothing about PVP whatsoever interests me in the slightest. I don't understand the mindset of rolling up on a person and jacking what they have, be it loot or a camp or... nothing at all. It's not what I consider fun.

[Faron]

Originally Posted by myriverse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I came to EverQuest back in 1999 to get away from the PVP of UO. Nothing about PVP whatsoever interests me in the slightest. I don't understand the mindset of rolling up on a person and jacking what they have, be it loot or a camp or... nothing at all. It's not what I consider fun.

I can see the fun in that if the PvP was more involved than turning on attack, sending in pet, or standing there casting a spell.

[Speaker]

No interest in PVP, especially PVP lite, easy leveling, no perm death and most NPC 's have better abilities anyway.

[Taminy]

Since EQ PVP was never designed to be balanced, no. Never.

I have done PVP in other MMOs though.

[hammertime7795]

EQ has never and will never be a pvp game. There has never been any support or balance around pvp. I don't understand why people try to make eq something its not. Whatever floats their boat I guess but no I would never on a red eq server.

[Colgate]

Originally Posted by hammertime7795 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EQ has never and will never be a pvp game. There has never been any support or balance around pvp. I don't understand why people try to make eq something its not. Whatever floats their boat I guess but no I would never on a red eq server.

pvp solves most of the issues that people cry about daily on the blue server with minimal GM intervention

[Schwing]

Originally Posted by Colgate [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

pvp solves most of the issues that people cry about daily on the blue server with minimal GM intervention

This being true doesn't change the fact that the game wasn't designed with pvp in mind. It's just too clunky and imbalanced for me, personally. I enjoyed my time on TZ but it ultimately showed me that I much prefer pve servers.

Most people don't have problems with others on a regular basis, let alone are interested in getting a GM involved. When it happens and someone makes a thread, Red players pounce on it - which is super original - and give the old, "tisk tisk, this one bad experience could have all been avoided on the pvp server!" Starting a brand new character on red after countless hours played, in a game with terrible pvp, on an underpopulated server, just isn't that enticing. It shouldn't be some great insult to red players that not everyone wants to play there, just like not many give it a second thought you don't want to play on blue.

[Colgate]

Originally Posted by Schwing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's just too clunky and imbalanced for me, personally.

what MMORPG have you ever played that ACTUALLY had "balanced" pvp?

is imbalance the idea of having different role classes who excel in different scenarios?

[Schwing]

Pretty much every other game I've played did it better than EQ, whether we're talking 1v1, arena, large-scale fights or all three, but honestly the mechanics of this game bother me more than any 'balance' issues. Glaring flaws like resists having no counters are too off-putting for me. Random LOS when target is clearly visible after lengthy cast time. Game just has zero polish.