It is absolutely true that players who spend time on a PVP server are superior at Everquest. Moving from Tallon Zek to Stormhammer really showed me that a lot of people on blue servers are absolutely terrible at the game.
In a PVP situation, you are forced to fully understand the strengths, weaknesses, capabilities and play-styles of every class in the game. You nearly always are doing content in shit gear under the constant and ever-present threat of getting jumped. The awareness it brings and the ability to anticipate what others are going to do makes you a better player on both blue and red servers.
That said, I won't play on a PVP server again.
These MMO's are totally gear dependent. What will happen here will be the same thing that happened on Tallon Zek back in the day; one guild will rise to the top and dominate the content first. They will farm the gear, put in the time, and lock that shit down to the point where the other guilds won't be able to stand a chance. Skill can make up for some of it, sure, but not enough of it to make a difference. Have you ever fought off other players who are wearing a mix of Skyshrine quest and NToV gear while you're wearing shit from Vex Thal and bashing their little skulls in with Mournfollow or Goldenrod? It's kind of the same thing as an epic rogue twink with 120 mr, jboots and a fungi at level 20...you're pretty much unkillable. It was fun for maybe a week before I sold my character and quit for a few years.
It's kind of funny, but the mass RMTing and subsequent banning is probably the only thing keeping competition on R99 alive.
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