Some considerations

Morai is not that bad as a PVE server. But server time is based on EU time (french hour basically) so depending of where you live it might not be the most suited one.

just like others input, choose the server that good for you to play. to level up and earn some coin at early level is not so hard. And if you want to get end game gear without CS or atleast CS with minimum money, try to farm, merch and do events in PWI such as tiger even, CoA, NW and so on.

slowshi wrote: »

Can you level up in this game through primarily pvping?

Is there scaled down pvp for lower levels (equivalent to battlegrounds in ****) or is everything geared to end game content?

1) No. There's no way to lvl with PVP. Lvl up is PVE only.

2) There's only a weekly tournament for PVP that separates players by lvl ranges. It's probably usually dead, though. Mostly it's end game content, though some mid lvls can have their share of fun on Nation Wars twice a week if they find similarly-geared squads on the opposing side. That, however, is pretty random.

slowshi wrote: »

So unless there's an event going on, the day to day pvp interactions in this game are primarily skirmishes like pking and such?

There is pvp event that good to level up and get good reward from it. you can do tourney weekly, that is pvp event. i think tourney is for level 70-79, 80-89 then 90+. and for NW, as long you are not afk and active in battle, you can get good reward. i know some ppl that level 90+ can get decent amount of token.

Ehhhhh

Game is pretty much endgame, as is to be expected for a game this old

105 is essentially out of the picture atm because the devs squashed 100-150 into 100-105, resulting in an insurmountable barrier only breached by an old trick or by soloing Phoenix Valley (100+) multiple times in the 15 minutes you have (impossible before absolute endgame gears)

Endgame gear is basically Nirvana Tier 3 (G16) at the very least. Assassins need their Rank 8 chest for -interval (this is a demonstration of PW's -interval system that lets melee DPS hit the cap of 5 attacks per second. Skai is 4aps due to using R9 weapon instead of one with interval) Assassins, Blademasters and the rare APS Barbarian also use Twiligh Temple level 99 gold arms/wrists/belt and necklace to get the -interval bonuses they need to reach 5aps. Oh, yea, Archers get the -0.1 sec interval on their r8, too, so they turn out to be a nice aps class if you choose to spend extra

R8r is expensive and only really worth it for Sins, Archers BMs and barbs going for interval

PVP wise it's full G16 at least or gtfo tbh. Mass pvp will more or less be a tab targeting turkey shoot for R9rr or well refined G16. Open world is mostly dead because people are rushing into instances for gear but it's very possible to find friends to pk with

80v80 Territory Wars is more or less 40v40 to 60v60

So basically it boils down to finding the right friends and an active faction to work with. Dreamweaver (GMT-5) is fairly populated

As for leveling you can easily solo quest from 1-80. From 80 on BH (69 and 79 basically) becomes much easier to find if you World Chat to form and offer free wines in exchange for 3* and mold drops, or just wait for someone else to do it. 80+ you'll be spamming Frostcovered City to 95, at which point you'll do Morai instance to 96 and then FC + do Morai daily quests to 100, and that's when the fun (BH100, Warsong City, TW, full Delta (yea it's 85+ but who does it until they have to anyways lol) starts)