Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

Add a PVE realm
I know the first concern is going to be "Splitting the playerbase"

But i hope this is considered eventually.

The reason why this server is successful has nothing to do with the fact that it is a PvP server, the reason for its success is the fact that it is the most stable, best scripted and "Blizzlike" server out there. It would be as populated if it was a PvE server, maybe not populated with the same type of people. Many people participated in the beta (not 6k players), word spread, and like a snowball effect and hype, a lot of people started playing here or moved from other private servers.
I wish the devs had opened 2 servers, 1 PvP and 1 PvE, leaving players a choice, like Blizzard did. 5-6k people online is NOT "Blizzlike", and I would not care if the population was 3k, it is more than enough.
I see many posts "go play somewhere else...... etc", this is the "Suggestions" forum.
Back in vanilla retail, I had a lot of free time to play this game, now my time is limited, and only during EU primetime, after work. It is getting worst every day, I/my group get ganged quite often, by skulls/high level, can't fly because flightmasters are being camped, and towns are “exploited” by safe-spotters or skulls. You move from one zone to another, same old shit, so changing levelling zone is not a viable option. I feel the frustration build-up because I spend a lot of my limited playtime running to my corpse, and all I want to do is fucking get to 60, run some BGs, do some instances/raid, but I surely don't want anything to do with this no-skill wPvP griefing. I played vanilla retail on a PvE server, and I really enjoyed it, there was a LOT of wPvP, faction leader raids and especially in the Barrens and TM/SS, players still needed the honor while in queue for WSG/AB/AV, but for everyone this was a CHOICE, you flagged yourself and engaged in wPvP.
I don’t know if things will settle down with time, I don’t know if I will keep playing, probably this server is not right for me. I tried another private PvE server but the scripting bothered me, it was not right. I am not asking for anything actually, devs made the choice to launch a PvP server, fine, players that enjoy it will stay and others will move on, I know I will probably move on. I like vanilla deeply but I am not enjoying this non-sense gang fest, and I can’t play retail anymore so much it is a joke now.
Anyway, to players that enjoy killing low health, low on mana, lower level players engaged in combat with 1 or 2 mobs is beyond my comprehension, even with all the help in the world, I will never understand what type of satisfaction the attacker can get. He is probably feeding off of the frustration of the assaulted player that was minding his own business. To me, this is borderline mental illness.

Poony wrote:Anyway, to players that enjoy killing low health, low on mana, lower level players engaged in combat with 1 or 2 mobs is beyond my comprehension, even with all the help in the world, I will never understand what type of satisfaction the attacker can get. He is probably feeding off of the frustration of the assaulted player that was minding his own business. To me, this is borderline mental illness.

It is an illness. I am just glad they are venting on a game rather than on the world tbh. Every time this has happened, I don't get frustrated, I get glad that this person isn't doing this in real life as that would be worse.

You have plenty of other private pve servers to choose from if you don't like this one, as is.

Bye?

Playing here is reminding me why I was so happy to switch to a PVE server early in the days of retail. I'm another player who pretty much hates the PVP server designation and would love to see a PVE realm added. It's pretty much impossible to quest in Western Plaguelands at all these days, I think.

I'm certain the server has the population to support a split (I know there would be much weeping and gnashing of teeth if the Nost server were straight up changed to PVE, so that's not an option, I don't think), and I'm sure there would be no small amount of people that would switch to the PVE server too, especially if transfers were added so people didn't have to reroll.

This has been debated so many times already. Viper has already stated that this will never turn into a PvE realm, nor will they open a new realm to split the population.

Bottom line: It's not going to happen, especially after Viper made it clear already.

Would you happen to have a link to that by chance, Shiggs?

Tali wrote:Would you happen to have a link to that by chance, Shiggs?

My mistake, not viper, but Witcher:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2815&start=20

Shiggs13 wrote:
My mistake, not viper, but Witcher:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2815&start=20

Thank you very much.

Well, that's not exactly great news for us but I don't think it's as definite as "never happening," so I'll continue to hold out hope.

Tali wrote:

Shiggs13 wrote:
My mistake, not viper, but Witcher:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2815&start=20

Thank you very much.

Well, that's not exactly great news for us but I don't think it's as definite as "never happening," so I'll continue to hold out hope.

I won't - the Nost admins have said they won't set up a PVE server, and they certainly don't owe me one. The Nost admins deserve a lot of praise for the stability and robustness of this server, and if they want it PVP that's of course their right. I just hope some other team might be inspired by this server's success to establish a PVE server this solid.

Meanwhile, in Redridge there's a troll priest level 30 or higher standing on the roof of the inn, killing lowbies as they come out to quest. That's what world PVP really seems to be about to most of the "l2p" crowd - killing toons too low in level to fight back. And I'd guess a solid percentage of those lowbies won't be logging back in after completing the starting PVE zones of the game. Those players want a PVE vanilla server - there's a demand out there that I'd bet some would be willing to pay to have met.