Perspective of a new Red player - for other new Red players

[PatriotPanda]

So, wife and I decided to join the dark side and rolled new toons on Red (We've been on Blue for a bit, but don't play often.) We made a mage/mage duo and the leveling / xp is ** insane ** Probably on par with or better than most PLs you'll get on Blue (we're only lvl 13 at the moment.)

Thus far we have been involved in zero PVP and only witnessed one battle which resulted in no death.

The community on Red is really awesome in terms of chattiness and general friendliness so far. There have been one or two one-off higher ups that have helped with a few pp for spells which helped greatly.

Economy wise for spell casters it's near impossible to make enough money at this level to support ourselves. That should get better as we get higher level, but the struggle is real and I would caution new players to Red on that point. You'll level far faster than you can make money, without patronage from some higher up. There is no selling bone chips for 10pp a stack (that we've seen so far) and most of those other player-player interactions that lowbies use to support themselves aren't really there.

All-in-all it's an excellent experience so far. Duo'ing we have a constant 90% xp bonus + whatever the ZEM is.

tldr: 8/10, do recommend. Money is hard, leveling is not.