General Discussion

Blizzard has announced that character transfers from World of Warcraft's PvE servers to PvP servers are now available.

Providing a smooth and enjoyable experience for all players is always a priority for us, and we are continually re-evaluating our policies and programs to do so. As the state of the game has matured substantially since the inception of Paid Character Transfers, we will now be allowing PvE-to-PvP transfers on a full-time basis to provide players with more mobility and freedom to easily play with their friends.

Keep in mind that all of the other standard cooldowns and restrictions will continue to apply; we're just opening the option to transfer characters on Normal realms to Player-vs.-Player realms.

Read more here.

Do you hear it?  I hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the hardcore PVP crowd headed this way.

there is no "hardcore pvp" in wow, unless they remove battlegrounds and bring back world pvp... ah i quess u heard this a couple of times before

It looks like Blizzard is trying to offset PvP migration to Warhammer.

Originally posted by Abstruse

It looks like Blizzard is trying to offset PvP migration to Warhammer.

- Truth

Originally posted by Tolmo

there is no "hardcore pvp" in wow, unless they remove battlegrounds and bring back world pvp... ah i quess u heard this a couple of times before

Haha...yep, more than a couple.

I levelled PvE because I was too carebearish to get ganked while grinding up levels.  Even I can understand how pissed players would be if they levelled up on PvP and had to endure PvE players migrating over.  I think this is going to make the less serious PvPers happy but the hard core PvP players, if they exist in WoW, might just feel motivated to leave for a level playing field.

Wonder what the low level populations on the PvP servers are going to be like now? Hmm...

 Blizzard made a huge mistake introducing far too many pvp servers.  The came is rooted in pve, it was obvious from the beginning that pvp was an afterthought.

Obviously, Blizzard is doing this to keep people from quitting wow and coming to warhammer.  Unfortunalty, I think it's gonna backfire and cause a lot of the old pvp players to finally quit. I know that my pvp guild in wow are all very pissed with the change and have now decided to switch over to warhammer.  Bad move by Blizz I think, but theyre gonna get loads of cash just from transfers that will last them for the next year.

I've leveled several characters to 60 on a PVP server back when WoW first came out.  It isnt hard.  No more as hard than normal PVE servers.  You just have to be careful. 

I like the idea, and if I was still playing, I would probally use it.  Why?  Gear has no matter anymore.  The arena gear is way more suited to the pvp scene than the tier gear.  That was the basical arguement back in the day about pve to pvp xfers.  "They lvled up without getting ganked and got Tier gear and that wouldnt be fair."

Well, I have a lot of friends on PVP servers.  I refuse to level any new characters, especially after obtaining Tier 6 and getting a murloc suit from Blizzcon.  =P.  So, it would give me a chance to play with those friends with said character.  Instead of re-leveling.

At level 70, its either PVP or farm all day.  Its the same on both PVP and PVE servers.  So why not? 

Just my 2 cents.