At what point is it better to start on the blue server instead of green?

[Nibblewitz]

Green eventually gets dumped into blue, so it doesn't really matter.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...16&postcount=1

The green server will, at a time yet to be decided, eventually merge into blue and start over again. This merge will not happen until at least 6 months after the last patch in velious (No earlier than January 2023).

[Kowalski]

MEGA = Make Eq Great Again

[Fammaden]

Blue is going to merge into green, get it straight. That way if green was able to be chill and leave the warders up the whole expansion....some blue guild will come wake the sleeper the first day.

[Nilstoniakrath]

Green gear is overpriced, and missing QoL patches

Zones are overpopulated

Blue is just a better server at this point

[sajbert]

It would be quite the crank if they wiped green but it's fair to assume that won't happen.

They could wipe blue and throw all green toons onto it, either as a permanent depository or to be wiped once the next green is done with its cycle. Not as unlikely as the first option but still rather unlikely.

They could throw green into blue and keep blue as they initially suggested or said they would.

The option to that would be to make a new green server and leave current green as a standalone server, likely struggling with low-population, at least until another green server cycle.

The last option would be that they don't release any new server at all or perhaps a PvP server. In many ways this makes sense to me.

... I'd take my chances and play on Green with a new toon.

[Baler]

Swish hit the nail on the head unfortunately.

Green is just another beta server.

[Fammaden]

The lower level and pick up group experience, and the overall population numbers, are only slightly better on green than blue at this point. Blue is still more top heavy overall, but green has become mostly top heavy itself.

If you don't mind soloing (and pick up groups at low to mid levels have become more and more scarce on green anyway) then the economy on blue definitely works in a new player's favor much much much more at this point.

[Baler]

You try running a bugg and exploit infected shard through kunark for 5 years and tell us how easy it is!

[cd288]

If I were rolling a new char/alt I wouldn't start on Green at this point. We're likely a year and a couple months away from a merge with Blue. The main positive to rolling a new char on Green would have been population and ability to find groups as you level up. That no longer really exists on Green (for example, multiple days in the past couple weeks there have been no low level groups in Unrest, whether in the yard or the MR...Crushbone has been relatively empty as well, just to cite a couple of hotspots). Other areas that pre-Kunark (and right around its release) that still had people in them are now dead (Blackburrow, Karana bandit camps, EC orc camps surprisingly rarely camped, etc.).

As such, why roll on Green? Your leveling experience on a new char will be virtually the same as Blue from a population/ease of finding groups perspective, and you will pay much more money for gear etc. For new chars, roll Blue, have the same leveling experience and be able to buy good gear for very cheap since there's so much of it available.

For me, I have mostly abandoned my lowbie chars on Green and will pick them up for a bit once we merge with Blue. Right now I'm just focusing on my higher level characters on Green but even there it feels kind of pointless at this stage.

[Toxigen]

The answer has always been blue.