hey just opening a new thread for those that have questions about PvP and PvP servers. i dont know everything but i can speak from some experience and im learning everytime i log on so fire away and im sure there are others out there with answers. SHAMAN POWA!!!

ill try to get my magelo updated soon so you guys can see what i have to work with...kinda embarrased, dont laugh when i get it posted.

Chapul
69th Iksar Shaman
Tallon Zek

I am looking forward to the answers too.. I have no idea how pvp works behond that you can kill and get killed by other players...

If they can loot your corpse, that could get expensive if in replacing your gear etc no??

come Feb 8th all PvP servers are gonna merge to one server and just be called Zek. the new server is going to have Rallos Zek rule set which is that you can attack any race within 4 levels of you. they did away with the item loot and cash loot when LDoN came out cause you just aug all yer gear and they couldnt loot a NO DROP item off of yas. as to what you get out of PvP it is just personal satisfaction. now you also get PvP points which can be spent at a merchant for different stuff. also if you want a camp spot you can try to take it. Tallon Zek used to be very territorial. everybody knew what guilds controlled what xp zones and raid zones. Pandemonium controlled the planes and Discordia/Indignation alliance were stuck in Vex Thal for example. so basically PvP servers had a strong sense of survival of the fittest. newcomers if not truely dedicated would be weeded off the server very quick and those that love PvP would stick it out thru the low lvl hell and no money hell to reach greatness and excitement on a PvP server. i spent a year playin on Ayonae Ro before going to a PvP server. i had a lvl 50 wizard, 50 shaman, 45bard, and various other low lvl alts. i had invested a good amount into playin on that server but when i started on Tallon i knew that it was going to be my new home and never regreted going and stayin. starting from scratch knowing what i already had on another server was the hardest thing but i couldnt be happier now, and i didnt neccessarily pick a super strong PvP class to play either but i do aight and i just got Time flagged last nite so some loot in due time will make my life easier. SHAMAN POWA!!!

Chapul
69th Iksar Shaman
Tallon Zek

Great post. I am fairly new to EQ and am planning on making the switch to pvp. I wish there were more posts on pvp experiences. Thanks a bunch for sharing yours with us.

Well actually you should not kill people in your group, it will be well known on Zek that you do, and you will have a problem finding groups later on. But kicking someone out of group first and then kill him is seen as a little bit different, especially if a player goes afk a long time or often and expect his toon to get exp... then people will start saying he deserved it... And when a mission is completed, the group is disbanded which open up new possibilities...

Sometimes group members decide to pvp each other in mutual agreement to a certain% or death. This can be okay, depending on when and where, but this can also really **** me off. I've been in groups that done this, and then when these ppl are almost dead they expect the healer to heal them, then they go again for a second try, and suddenly mobs start popping, and your group is at low health, your healer oom and you wipe.

There goes your 50pp kei and your 50pp virtue and there goes more plats for summoning corpse and rez... ending the evening with less exp and less plat than when you actually started a couple of hours ago, and you start writing a "never-going-to-group-with-this-guy-again-list"...

But basically, always know who others are in zone, always be looking over your shoulder, but primarily the real danger is from outside your group, not from your group.

PvP is an entirely different world!!!
I wanted to experiance PvP so I tranferred my main from the Bristelbane server to the Zec server. At the time I transfered him he was a 66 Level Ranger with EQ and AM 3.
I got owned at every turn. My PvP record at one point was 24 deaths and 1 kill. I did not know the difference between Panda and Uncarring Skulls. Defiant and Hate killed me so often that I felt they were camping me.
So, if you are thinking of joining the world of PvP my advice would be to start from the ground level, learn who is who and make friends fast.
For what it is worth I will never go back to PvE.