Question on Server (rules)

[Frost]

Hello there,
I played this game a couple of years ago and loved it. I want to spent some hours in the game again - nothing serious - i am waiting for other games to release.
I understand there are wo servers Crom and Fury. I remember that when i played AoC the last time, you were safe in tortage except for the sewers and white sands.
When you left tortage you could be attacked everywhere and as far as i recall there have been three major guilds that controlled the level 65-80 area in Stygia (one of them was Heruaida?)
Anyway - i want to have some pvp here and there - but i dont want to be farmed and ganked all the time by lvl 80s. So how is the siutation on Fury? If i pick crom - will i see some pvp? (e.g. in the sewers and whitesands?)

regards

[NavFamG]

Here's something from the official forums concerning Pvp on Crom. Read the last post as it gives a fairly good view of it:

https://forums.funcom.com/t/worth-to-come-back/18291/20

And here's one from the forums on how Fury stands:

fury update :
24 people on

5 level 80’s
19 low level classes from 5 - 71

0 minis
0 raidfinder
0 chat

- WSI and the Underhalls are Pvp zones for Tortage ONLY on Fury. There are NO Pvp zones on Crom except for the Border regions after you leave Tortage.

I don't think there's enough players on Fury to control zones anymore as from various other posts people have said they've leveled to 51 without ever seeing another person.

Now there is a post else where here from a lvl 15 that kept getting ganked by lvl 80's on WSI.

A couple changes from when you last played; there's no level cap for WSI any more, F/C introduced a monthly World Boss feature and one of the spots is WSI so that killed the cap and players more than 3 levels below you aren't suppose to count towards the kill ratio, not that that would stop the gankers.

All in all Crom would be the best choice if you come back.

[Frost]

Thank you so much for this well written overview of the situation. That helps a lot.
Its a shame that they ruined Whitesands. Why is funcom so clumsy?
I'd like to see AoC 2 - but maybe not with funcom.

[NavFamG]

I honestly don't think Funcom thinks things through. For example: 'Let's add World Bosses' and have them rotate though all the area's'. So far so good. '

We'll put them in Free zones and B2p zones', again so far so good. Players have the option of buying a zone or skipping that months boss, no biggie.

'We should put one on WSI', 'Well OK, but we'll have to lift the level cap', 'Oh, well that's no problem'. AND here's where someone only thinking on the World Bosses or only thinking PvE, screws the pooch.

I think Pvp get's such short shift now, that no one actually takes the time to think how changes in one 'realm', effects the other one (PvE vs PvP).

[NavFamG]

Now since you seem to be interested in Pvp, the current rumor is that after the success of the PvE limited time Saga Server, that the next one will be Pvp focused. So you might want to keep an eye out for that late summer / fall?.

I played all of the last Saga and Pvp mini-games were quite the thing for the first month of the server. Dying off as people outleveled the games. But as to that, F/C has put a feature in where you can halt your XP gain so you could stay in those lower level brackets.