I have played Vik on 3 different servers. He was created on Echo Isles, moved to Aerie Peak with hopes of playing with work friends (they went horde…), moved back to EI, and now I just recently moved him to an Oceanic Server.

I play late nights Pacific Time so that should put me in the game as their prime time is starting (kinda like being in NY on a pacific server).

The first thing you notice is the difference in guild names, the next is that the chat seems to have a different tone to it.

It all looks the same, but feels different.

So for me each server is a different alternate universe. I even created a space holder named Vik and am toying with making him a Belf Death Knight…. Evil Vik as it were.

Same basic character with a totally different experience.

I secretly thing Mr. Ratters and “his team” are all the same person….

Don’t tell him I said that…

Having said that, in the past I have often considered that my Human Paladin and my Undead Lock were the exact same person. I worked up this story, in my head of course, that in the course of time the paladin would give his life for his beliefs and perish. Later… He would rise from the grave as a member of the Undead.

It feels good in my head to view it this way. I will continue to view it as such and encourage all to make and undead and human counterpart

PERSONALLY, I maintain that it just doesn’t seem to fit in my mind that two of my characters would be able to “meet” one another. That’s due largely to three things:

1) Of all the servers I play on, none of them are in the same battle group. At least, none that I play on frequently are.

2) I strongly dislike all pvp except world pvp. Very occasionally you’ll find me in AB, but that’s it.

3) In all the scant arena / battleground experience that I do have, I’ve never once connected with somebody from another server enough to exchange a full 3 lines of witty banter. BGs just don’t seem like they connect servers in any social way that is strong enough to justify characters from different servers knowing each other.

All three are very personal to me, and obviously you may feel otherwise. Still, that was a really good point and I appreciate that you gave me something to think about.

But in regards to your cross-server story question.. I woke up just the other night suddenly inspired. I’ve had my ghost saber on my BE hunter since 19 and she’s been 70 for probably 5 months now. And the poor cat is still nameless. What suddenly came into my head was a name I’d used years ago for a NE warrior who only made it to 20. And that name seemed to suit the cat. Which led to… what if that cat was the warrior? So this story has been brewing of NE warrior dying off the coast of Darkshore possibly boat wreck, possibly something magic and naga related, and becoming entrapped in one of the cat figurines there. Along comes Ms Horde Hunter to beast tame her. She resents it, dislikes becoming companion to an enemy… but it’s better than being tied to the figurine and forced to fight her own for the naga. She’s loyal but guarded… thus she’s only cat. But something happens and now she finally able, after all these levels and all this time, to reveal her name and truly bond.

The point being… (though clearly still a story in progress) it never entered my mind that they were from different servers and thus couldn’t “meet.”

I keep coming back to my main’s server, though. You’re absolutely right in saying that each server has a distinct personality to it. I find my own server (Plain ol’ vanilla PVE) to be full of longtime players, many of whom remain around since the game came out. We aren’t huge on the progression front, we aren’t huge in PVP, and there’s no RP to speak of (save for a couple of stellar personalities that rise above – we have a longstanding gnome-loving orc that I suspect may be green in real life, but I digress).

What makes this server special is its sheer friendliness. Drama just kind of seems to die or be ignored, and there’s a remarkable lack of idiots, compared to the other servers I’ve bounced around on. I spent some time on a PVP server that was an abso-friggin’-lute dramafest, through and through – violent interguild rivalries, serious problems with raider-poaching, deliberate wiping of other guilds on outdoor bosses, stuff like that.

While I can’t speak too much as to the inter-meshing of RP personae, as my few forays into RP land have been largely abortive, I find it hard to think of pretty much any of my cross-server characters meeting each other. While my druid, hunter, pally, and mage share friends on my main server, none of them have anything in common with my shaman on the PVP server. No friends in common, no events in common, nothing really. They wouldn’t even have the same expectations of strangers, due to the disparate populations between the two servers.

I can easily see the druid and hunter chatting it up, but if you put the shaman in the room, I suspect there’d be a lot of awkward glances all around. They’re pretty much total strangers.