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Which side will be the underdog?
Ragana
Member Posts: 458
I played Horde on WoW back in the day when they were the major underdog and the alliance greatly outnumbered them. Which side will be the clear underdog in this game?
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bump really curious about this.
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order easily in almost all cases. More high pop desto servers than Order. also everyone seem to think most of the order "look" lame or stupid. Im playing order and i like it so far. Im not getting roflstopped like i thought i would RvR and scenarious are pretty 50/50 with desto being a bit better in Rvr overall. Im enjoying everyhing
Hard to say this early on. Wait and see when they have the full release for every one. Destro seemed. in my experience , to have the numbers, BUT i started playing today and i picked a server clear at the bottom of the list hoping for a little peace to get thru the quick early levels, order outnumbered us at least 2 to 1, which surprised me. i think a lot will go order at full release, just seems to always fall to the "good guys" number wise. as of right now though, destro has the numbers i think, going by server populations and such
Is there open world ganking in this game or do the numbers not mean anything (if its bg's its going to even out either way it seems)
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there are scenarios<bg's from what i gather, never tried them b/c i enjoy the open pvp better> . on a core server, which is what i play, there are warcamps<basically encampments with quests and such> u simply have to walk down a hill or cross a river and can pvp. u fight over objectives within those areas. i assume on a PvP server u can kill any time any where but have not done that myself yet.
So destruction is the top dog for sure then?
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For now... Things may change later on of course, but new as this game is, more peeps will roll destruction over order, plain and simple.
Maybe order will get a bump in population a month or 2 down the road, but we will see.
So the song remains the same.. Order = Underdog
order looks like an underdog but whole day yesterday tier 1 was going in favor of order
Eventually destruction will be, trust me. It happens to every mmo. Evil starts out popular pre-release, ends up overwhelmed soon after release.
Depends on server you chose; usually guilds and their leaders are what makes the sides stand out.
Is there a reason why destruction is outnumbering order (besides the fact to they look cool) or are the sides pretty balanced
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QFT!
Zodan has a really good point there!
It's really going to come out which guilds are on which sides really and the game does take some competence to get something going and start winning and turning the tide of battle in our favor. And alot of the skilled DAoC guilds are going Order over D .
Me? I play Order hands down.. more people to stomp on and i like the underdog's best. And plus well from my PvP experiance seems like no Destruction on our server heals their mates they all just dps. /shrug
Yeah, the classes are balanced - each Order class has a "mirror" class on Destruction. For example Bright Wizard is a burst ranged dps with curious build up mechanic called "combustion". Destruction has the Sorceress which has almost the same spells and mechanics but there it is called "hate" and it does different damage type (i think). They're almost perfectly balanced tbh.
Some mirror classes diverge a bit more.. Like mobile ranged dps Squig Herder which has a pet and Shadow Warrior which doesn't but they do pretty much the same thing with quite a few very similar skills.
The sides seem pretty well balanced - but destro is 'cool/sexy' whereas order (for the most part) isn't.
dark elves = chicks in underwear, chaos = 'badass', greenskins = fun orcs.
empire = humans with odd classes, high elves = elves with "lotsa clothing" and 0 fun, dwarves = dwarves.
It is almost certain that Destro will comfortably outnumber Order on most servers. The plus side is that order wait queues are generally lower and we have all the best players
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The thing with Order is that no one plays tanks. No one is playing swordmasters or ironbreakers. Its all bright wizards, shadow warriors, and egineers wiith the rare runepriest. Order right now is not fun at all, and I may have to switch over if things don't change after a month or two.
I have to agree, out of all of the classes and races for Order Mythic chose some of the most basic ones. The only "cool" classes that are available on the Order side is a Witch Hunter and possibly a Bright Wizard for flavor.
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I have to agree, out of all of the classes and races for Order Mythic chose some of the most basic ones. The only "cool" classes that are available on the Order side is a Witch Hunter and possibly a Bright Wizard for flavor.
What's funny is that my only two characters right now are an Ironbreaker main, and a Warrior Priest Alt.
The sleeper awakes...and rides his dirtbike to the mall.
Order, all the cool kids think it's more badass to be a green guy or a mutant viking than it is to be a midget viking with a shotgun!
Hehe
Tried: WoW
Played: EQ, EQII, AO, SWG, NGE-SWG, LoTRO, WAR, Vanguard, Eve, WWIIOL, Guild Wars, Darkfall, AoC.
Playing: DAoC.
Waiting For: SW:TOR.
All I know is that Order (which I'm playing until the server balances out) was getting spanked last night on Ungrim (at least in Nordland) only because Destruction easily outnumbered order 3 to 1(at least when I was on). It’s never a good sign when you have 20 destruction characters camped out near the entrance to the order camp. Thank God for the field artillery. Seriously though, it seems to me that even in scenario RvR, Destruction comes out on top more often than Order. A balance issue, maybe?
Yes, yes I know I'm complaining
, but at least I'm still buying the game!
If I am going to play a game for 100s of hours I am going to play a character I enjoy looking at. Everything on the side of Order looks like something a European carnival spit out.
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No, not really a balance issue. Its more of a cooperation issue. No one works together in scenarios they all break off into little groups and do their own thing. If one side or they other organizes into two groups, one smaller and the other large. The large group can run around and take out the opposing realm while the smaller group caps objectives.
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Another reason in-game VoIP would be awesome! Oh well, perhaps I'll set up a Mumble server
Another reason in-game VoIP would be awesome! Oh well, perhaps I'll set up a Mumble server
I would much rather people use Vent or TS over in game VoIP anyway. Takes away some of the stress on the game servers.
As a side note. If people aren't going to listen to chat they aren't going to listen to someone barking orders over a mic either. If anything I would be more inclined to not listen to the guy on the other side of a mic over written text anyway. That is unless they are calm and respectful about it. None of that "K nubs, this is how we do dis." or "Hey Noobsauce! I told you to do it now do it!"
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If I am going to play a game for 100s of hours I am going to play a character I enjoy looking at. Everything on the side of Order looks like something a European carnival spit out.
Sayz the green guy with english football hooligan accent.