Quest Completion - PvP vs. PvE

[xDarkDrifterx]

So, I'll be choosing a server tomorrow night as my cable will finally be installed.

One of my concerns is quest completion.

How much of a pain is it to complete simple quests that may take you into neutral/contested areas when on the PvP server? I would think that some would be hard, but are there groups of ppl just waiting for you to try such-n-such a quest at such-n-such a place and time? Are simple quests sometimes hard quests that need you to get a group just to help you live through the onslaught?

I want to go PvP b/c I like the "OH GOD!" factor! But I also want my wife to be able to complete quests, etc.

Just wondering what everyones thought on this is . . .

thanks! :grin:

[Gormash]

For the most part you can quest just fine on a PvP server though there WILL be times when you are interrupted during a quest. My experience is that about 1 in 15 quests are interrupted by a PvP-ing bastich with your name on his axe.

One thing I noticed though...
I started playing WoW on a PvE server and leveled to 48 before I created a new toon on a PvP server. I leveled just as well there and even surpassed my initial character before I thought to try out the old character again.
The thing is, when I came back to the PvE server everything was so darn DULL! It was not the character but rather the fact that you couldn't be surprised that ruined it.

My point is: Yes, you WILL occationally be killed on a PvP server (thereoff the name Player vs Player), but it also adds a bit of exitement that's lacking from teh PvE servers.
Well, that's MY oppinion at any rate...

[xDarkDrifterx]

PvE server everything was so darn DULL! It was not the character but rather the fact that you couldn't be surprised that ruined it.

My point is: Yes, you WILL occationally be killed on a PvP server (thereoff the name Player vs Player), but it also adds a bit of exitement that's lacking from teh PvE servers.
Well, that's MY oppinion at any rate...

Yeah that's how I feel too . . . I played dragonraja on a pvp server for over a year and love the excitement of PvP . . . I can't fathom walking past an army of horde chars with my PvP tag off just smiling . . . I want the RL feeling of OH GOD HERE COMES 30 PPL!!!!!! lol:grin:

Thanks for the info on the quests too! :thumbsup:

[zkajan]

it depends on the place too, not all contested territory is very contested and other is a lot, and there is also certain places. for example you could be questing in STV all day and be fine, but then you go to Nessingwary's Expedition (a place you can get a lot of quests from like 3 NPCs) and it's a battlefield. Then there is places like Redridge Mountains which has no horde quests or NPCs but it's contested territory aliance enter as early as lvl 15 or so, that lvl 60 bored horde sometimes come to relieive some stress.
I personaly rarely pvp these days unless it's over some really short resource. For example I went into northern Fellwood yesterday to kill some Furbolgs for a quest I had never done (never cared about that particular rep grind, but saw the quest last night and figured i'd get the exp conversion money) and I saw two groups of horde (one with two mages and the other with a mage a warrior and a warlock) farming them. There is plenty of spawns so I left them alone and started doing my quest, but ofcourse one of the groups kills me while I'm fighitng the mobs. So I come back and wreck both groups (well, one group at a time). Eventualy they kill me (they do have numbers advantage) but each time I'm taking out the smaller group and at least one person from the bigger group. Then they team up and bring in 2 more guys (anotehr lock and a rogue) and I can't kill that whole zerg, so I move on to winterspring with my quest uncompleted (I was going to go there after anyway). On my way through the tunnel I see the rogue from earlier and a shaman too, and kill them with easy. While still eating a warrior is riding past me and I jump and kill her too. I start riding away, and about halfway to teh town I see a hunter. Dismount and bring to 1/3 hp in one nice backstab, but he's not dismounted and keeps runnign and I don't feel like chasing. Then at my next farm place there is a horde mage, a horde rogue, and an aliance warlock. I /dance with the rogue and the mage and there is enough mobs for all so we leave each other alone. At some point a horde hunter has showed up and it's too much so I kill it. Soon thereafter the warlock and the rogue get into a tussle, me and the mage just watch. They keep killing each other, someitimes one wins sometimes the other. Eventualy the rogue goes away.

[Dynatos]

*Wall Of Text crits you for 46245*

[xDarkDrifterx]

never cared about that particular rep grind, but saw the quest last night and figured i'd get the exp conversion money

Experience Conversion Money? :shocked:

I'm guessing this is when you are too high of a level to obtain exp from a quest . . . it gives you money instead? Is this guess correct? :ponder:

[Dynatos]

Yes. It was added in a semi-recent patch to encourage L60 folks to continue to complete quests, even when already level capped.

It adds up, too. Roughly 4-6g per quest turnin at L60 (for L58-60 quests).

Of course, we'll all need to get used to not receiving this gold anymore come TBC ... until we hit L70.

[xDarkDrifterx]

Yes. It was added in a semi-recent patch to encourage L60 folks to continue to complete quests, even when already level capped.

It adds up, too. Roughly 4-6g per quest turnin at L60 (for L58-60 quests).

Excellent! Thanks for the info bro! :grin:

Extra ca$h is always helpful!!!!!! :thumbsup:

[Dynatos]

Experience Conversion Money? :shocked:

I'm guessing this is when you are too high of a level to obtain exp from a quest . . . it gives you money instead? Is this guess correct? :ponder:

Er, I misread this.

No, that's not entirely correct. You're never too high of a level to receive XP from a quest; but when you're much higher than the quest, the amount you receive will be reduced to a very meaningless level. (Say, 2000XP for quests of your current level, and 100XP for a quest 10 levels below you ... as an example).

The XP to gold conversion is for quests that you cannot receive XP for anymore. In other words, it's for quests that you complete when you're already level capped (ie, L60).