Personality of servers?

[Lity]

I've asked this before, but for the sake of not necro-ing an old thread, whats the main purpose of the community for the clusters? I know Crystal was more casual and Aether was more raid heavy if I remember correctly, but what about Primal?

Thinking of a possible transfer over to Primal to play with some old friends, but Behemoth/Excalibur are the only available servers. I know with world visiting this part is kind of moot, but what about them? I'm just not looking to dive into a hostile environment.

[DevilsDontFly]

General consensus seem to be:

• Aether: Raiding.
• Primal: PvPing.
• Crystal: Roleplaying.

The reality however is:

• Aether: Mind your own business and become the nastiest human being when someone mentions your DPS or inability to do a speed run.
• Primal: Nobody really talks about you, so you're kinda just there.
• Crystal: "Ya'll casuals suck. Learn not to be so bad. I'm transferring to Aether.".

[Gula]

General consensus seem to be:

• Aether: Raiding.
• Primal: PvPing.
• Crystal: Roleplaying.

The reality however is:

• Aether: Mind your own business and become the nastiest human being when someone mentions your DPS or inability to do a speed run.
• Primal: Nobody really talks about you, so you're kinda just there.
• Crystal: "Ya'll casuals suck. Learn not to be so bad. I'm transferring to Aether.".

Primal needs to be: Nobody really talks to you, so you're just kinda there.

Ultros is memes, memes golly more reddit and memes. Plus an added obsession with ERP and egg shell delicate personalities you wouldn't think you'd just run into, but they are ironically what people joked Balmung to be. A very loud, very vocal minority though.

[Mikhaill]

General consensus seem to be:

• Aether: Raiding.
• Primal: PvPing.
• Crystal: Roleplaying.

The reality however is:

• Aether: Mind your own business and become the nastiest human being when someone mentions your DPS or inability to do a speed run.
• Primal: Nobody really talks about you, so you're kinda just there.
• Crystal: "Ya'll casuals suck. Learn not to be so bad. I'm transferring to Aether.".

I heard Primal is a mix of both.
Maybe it's just the "We do whatever honestly" server.

I find Crystal lax as everyone else said.
Friendly imo. RPers are actually really nice.

[Gula]

I heard Primal is a mix of both.
Maybe it's just the "We do whatever honestly" server.

I find Crystal lax as everyone else said.
Friendly imo. RPers are actually really nice.

Roleplay is a highly social activity. You're writing with all kinds of strangers and building fun things together. When on Crystal, I find it very easy to meet new people and socialize with people just idling. When I played on other non RP worlds, especially Primal, I feel like I'm interrupting someone and there's usually a different mood around hub areas.

[YojimboM]

General consensus seem to be:

• Aether: Raiding.
• Primal: PvPing.
• Crystal: Roleplaying.

I have no idea where you're getting this info from. As someone who does PVP on Primal and Aether, Aether's PVP scene is generally regarded as better than Primal's, Primal is just "watered down" Aether in every aspect. Aether has always been more centralized for hardcore raiders and FCs, which also translates into a generally larger population of hardcore players in both PVE and PVP.

Your experience will likely not be too different regardless of if you play on Primal or Aether, though, since many of the hardcore players from either DC play on both of them, if you are playing at that level. It's pretty safe to say Primal and Aether are functionally the same.

Crystal is in a really bad place right now since most of the veteran players jumped ship to stay in statics or migrated to established servers on Aether and Primal. Playing on Crystal would be significantly different than the other two due to the disproportionate number of casual players to raiders left on it.

As far as specific servers on Primal and Aether, just avoid Behemoth or Gilgamesh if you don't want to deal with running into Dunning-Kruger type toxicity.

[SturmChurro]

I've asked this before, but for the sake of not necro-ing an old thread, whats the main purpose of the community for the clusters? I know Crystal was more casual and Aether was more raid heavy if I remember correctly, but what about Primal?

Thinking of a possible transfer over to Primal to play with some old friends, but Behemoth/Excalibur are the only available servers. I know with world visiting this part is kind of moot, but what about them? I'm just not looking to dive into a hostile environment.

I'm on Excalibur. I don't know how primal compares to the other data centers, but I have had a good time here; I consider Primal home. Server personality? I don't know really, seems about like every other american server I have been in with people making jokes. A lot of people with dumb names like mine are here, and you see a lot of cat girls and stuff emoting in hubs - I consider that normal though. Haven't been harassed or noticed a hostile environment, I do get the odd whisper here and there from people catcalling my character (no joke). Zones are active, and hunt trains are daily. Fates trains have kind of died out since launch of ShB. You'll still get a handful of people doing them most of the time in zones.

[zar]

It’s a mix of Aether and Crystal. We raid and ERP.

[Canadane]

I've asked this before, but for the sake of not necro-ing an old thread

Just bump the old thread. They don’t expire and this isn’t some 16 year olds personal forums with ridiculously paradoxical rules in place.

[Zarabeth]

I'm on Primal (Leviathan) and there are a mix of people. The majority seem to be nice. There are both casual and raid groups, FCs and Linkshells. There are some who like to sit in town and chat. I run an FC and LS for helping newer people get things done. I've had no problems with duty finder pts. At least none that I have left or been kicked. We're not much for role playing. I don't know who decided we ignore people but that's very far from true. There are Hunt groups by the dozen. I love it here.