For the most part I avoided PVP, but around Tier 2-3 I started actually trying and even gained managed to convince a second fully formed Warband to follow mine around for a brief little bit. Although the enemy had seen what we were planning and fled before we could attack it, we did still technically nab a castle from them before the timer in the Human area ran out.
I mostly did PVE to level up, mostly because I enjoyed the story lines but looking back I honestly forgot to read a good portion of them. When if finally came time that I finished the quests for the Empire, I realized that it was time to either A, continue questing on the other realms (such as working for the Dwarves and the like) or to B, pony up and start fighting against actual players. I tried the PVE route for a while, but got sick and bored of just one-shotting my way up to and through whatever final boss happened to cross my way and so I got my "start" with seriously doing PVP well into having already made it to level 40 and thus having equipment nowhere near suitable for fighting people that had long since studied how to kill me.
This time around, as soon as PVP is available, it will be me sole intent to get as much practice as I can with that and then go back to complete the stories because despite the madness of it, I sincerely loved working with other people that were actively trying to keep me from dying to other people. In that regard, it probably did not help that I was a DPS Warrior Priest ACTING LIKE A TANK AND ABSOLUTELY REFUSING TO EQUIP, NEVER MIND USE ANYTHING THAT WOULD HELP ME ESCAPE OR OTHERWISE TAKE THE AGGRO OFF OF ME WITH AN ATTITUDE THAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS SICKENED ABHORRENCE.
So yeah. That's pretty much what my career was in the original and what my new plans for this game will be.
I will still probably end up making another Warrior Priest and playing him as a tank though. That part won't change
