You would communicate with other players heavily, and say appropriate things for your character. RP means you treat the game as if you are the actual character rather than truly treating WoW as a basic video game. There is one other category of server, called RP for role-playing. You will still be able to participate in battlegrounds and the Arena. It only means that world PvP is optional. If you choose to play on a PvE server, this does not mean you will never participate in PvP. There is the ability to shut the mode off at will as well, (although it takes 5 minutes to 'turn off' in a friendly environment) but you will normally find that other players on PvE servers usually choose not to participate in open PvP as often as players on a PvP server. A player on a PvE server can ' flag' themselves as PvP by either typing /pvp or right clicking on their portrait at the top of the page and selecting 'flagged'. This type of server has much more of the spirit of Warcraft to it, but can also prove to be extremely frustrating to players who just want to experience the game itself without being griefed by other players.Ī PvE server, on the other hand, does not allow you to be attacked unless you allow it. On a PvP server, members of opposing factions can attack each other freely. There are two main types of servers, Player vs.