Cross Server BG

[Watto44]

It's not really all that surprising. The ***average*** skill level of a player on a PvP server tends to be higher than the average skill level of a player on a PvE server. This is due to three reasons:

1) PvE server players have less experience with PvP, since they're not forced to do it on a regular basis.
2) PvP servers attract a more hardcore playing crowd. It's no coincidence that a large percentage of high-end PvE raiding guilds are on PvP servers.
3) PvP'ing helps to make you a better player. You develop more "twitch" skills, and you learn the ins and outs of your class more and see its strengths and weaknesses more clearly.

I agree, but I think there's also a much more important factor that you're overlooking: players on PvP servers spend their time/DKP/whatever getting gear to PvP with. The ability to gear your toon - and the knowledge of how to gear it:)- for PvP is key, and it's something that I don't think PvE server players put as much effort into. This was the main difference I noticed when I rerolled from Terenas to Stormscale: people gear for PvP, plain and simple. There was no real reason to get that asskandi except to whack someone about with it. (On the skill level, I actually felt that a Terenas horde PuG would roll a Stormscale Horde PuG, just because the Terenas crew worked together pretty well. Far too many solo heros and kill #$&^%s on Stormscale. :wacko: )

Also, in my experience high end guilds on PvP servers tend to be a lot more relaxed about speccing than a lot of PvE guilds. (Excepting when they're making a hard push on PvE content, which is fair enough.:))

Finally (okay, so it was three factors) there are a lot more pre-established "teams" on PvP servers. While a PvE server might be able to field a couple of honor farming groups, just about every high-end PvP server guild fields an A and a B team that have extensive experience fighting together and use vent/teamspeak as a matter of course.

In the end, I think the differences are mostly about desire. There's a greater desire to PvP on the servers set up for it, and thus there's a greater wealth of properly geared and experienced players.

PS. Hehe, I just thought of a forth one. Ruthlessness. On a PvE server, camping the enemies spawn point graveyard is - or was in my day - considered bad form. On a PvP server you're considered mad if you don't. It's par for the course and an accepted, legitimate, above board tactic.