RED OR BLUE (New Player)

[Aeaolena]

Blue has a better community, in my humble opinion.

I've been 60 for a couple years now, and have never been bored. Lots of big guilds on Blue with established communities and their assorted casts of characters. Lots of Forumquesting, bullshitting, gossiping about other guilds, racing other guilds for targets, drunken late-night banter on Ventrilo, etc.

I played on a PvP server in WoW. And I can agree that the "Be on the lookout for Danger at ANY MOMENT" is a cool factor, but I prefer the PvE side of things with Everquest. There is enough conflict with racing other raid guilds (or shifting alliances of other raid guilds) enough to keep things interesting. And if I am really looking for that "rush" of adrenaline -- I'll just log in and play a few games of Team Fortress 2 on Steam.

And what's wrong with hangin' out at the EC tunnel or in front of Thurg bank? Fashionquest on!

[simp403]

choose life

[shimonuh]

Flip a coin

[Pipip]

Try them both.

Personally I prefer red. The high pop of blue was nice when I was starting out, but it started to wear on me as I got higher in level. It was just too overcamped for me. Your experience might be different.

The one thing that I miss most about blue is EC. Finding the gear you want on red can take a while, and it's usually more expensive than on blue.

[pink grapefruit]

I've played both.

Blue is better for the classic experience of leveling, I think. I really like leveling and this is where blue shines for me. Classic xp rate, ability to /shout LFG in basically any level-appropriate zone. Seems everyone is twinked though, which is a definite downside. Maybe it's better now that you have to be 46 to get your epic but I'm not a big fan of twinks being more prominent than new players.

Red has a lot of newbies, and everyone is pretty nice for the most part. More people on red seem to look out for newbies and give them gear or buffs. The xp is too fast for my liking though, and if you take a break for a couple days all your friends will be 50+ when you come back.

End game blue is terrible. I'd never played EQ blue before so maybe it's just not what I'm used to. I prefer it on red with lots of targets available and the fun pvp fights that happen sometimes. You'll never run out of things to do on red endgame, and it is crazy boring on blue.

My vote goes to red, but blue might be better, especially if you hate pvp.

[Oleris]

ITT:
1) blue people saying blue

2) red players saying red

[iruinedyourday]

ima give you infos one of these days oley and take you on a pvpventure

[Oleris]

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ima give you infos one of these days oley and take you on a pvpventure

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[applesauce25r624]

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Blue is like math class & red is like recess.

blue is for smart people, red is for dumb jocks

got it

[captnamazing]

where do I pick RP server?