PvE vs RP and some musings.

[vor_lord]

Recently, however, I decided to give a PvP server a try. My RL friends that I play with had a PvP craving, so we decided to give the Horde a try on a server. I suggested Tichondrius, since I knew there would be some Lurkers around. After about 8-10 hours of play time, I've become incredibly sour to the server.
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I recently played for some time on Tich also. I have a level 18 shaman (who I've stopped playing because my timing just hasn't worked out to run RFC yet and I don't want to level past it too far) and a level 12 shaman that I've been playing along with bonemage occasionally.

My experience has been quite different. But I haven't played at all on a RP server. The only poor experience I've had on Tich was being annoyed by a 12 year old (and yes he really was 12 and said so himself) who kept wanting me to show him everything and help him do everything. I humored him as far as I could and then said sayonara.

That said, on November 23rd with my first character I left general chat on Doomhammer (a PvE server). Since then I've not been in general on any server with any character. So I may be insulated to a large degree from what people are saying.
There are often a few people doing dumb things like dancing on the mailbox and yelling, but /ignore is easy to use.

Big differences between Doomhammer (which as a launch server has a pretty decent population) and Tichondrius? Tich has far more "uber" players on it. The trade channel in Orgrimmar is full of purple items. The gear that the average player is wearing is much better.

Having not tried any pickup instance runs yet there I can't speak to that, but I have not seen things to be that much different than a PvE server with respect to the maturity of the players. Guess RP is a different kettle of tea than either.