Rulesets: Groups, Factions, and Hardcore
Choose the same ruleset and faction as your friends, and understand PvP character limits and Hardcore progression.
Choose Normal, PvP, Roleplay, or Hardcore instead of a realm. Hardcore opens after launch.
Groups require the same ruleset and faction. Battlegrounds can match across rulesets, except Hardcore.
Characters cannot freely switch rulesets; create another character to try one. Dead Hardcore characters may transfer elsewhere, including PvP. Hardcore progress can carry out; outside progress cannot carry in.
PvP limits character creation to one faction and may temporarily restrict the larger faction when populations are uneven. Normal, Roleplay, and Hardcore allow characters on both factions.