Gameforge will be merging down their servers for TERA (EU) at the end of this month. Only three PvE servers will remain once this is completed.
Earlier this year, Nexon performed a server merge for K-TERA leaving it with just a single PvE server (ergo, no PvP server).
The reason I point this out is that En Masse Entertainment (TERA NA) will likely end up merging their PvE and PvP servers within the next few months. The reason for this is simple; the population on both servers has been consistently trending downwards but has accelerated with patch 80 due to the extremely grindy and contentless aspect of the new level 70 cap (not to mention, the RNG which is tilted towards failure with the new gear slots as well as with the existing higher tier equipment).
For myself, most of the 15 characters that I have on the PvP server (Kaiator) were from the previous server merge; basically it was overflow from the few characters I had on the other pre-merge servers. Because of the headaches that other players experienced where they had way more characters than the total account limit (which in NA, is currently 22 characters), I would also be over the limit whenever EME decides to eventually merge (I have 21 characters on the PvE server Velika).
Because I believe the probability is high for a similar merge in NA (and seeing other regions eliminating the PvP server which EME also did for the console merge on both platforms that happened on May 20th), I’m already taking steps now since I know EME won’t go out of their way to convince Bluehole/Krafton to at minimum, double the limit available on the final server (so that players won’t have to decide what characters to delete which can suck if all of those characters have actual purchased cosmetics on them).
