WAR (Warhammer Online)

With my friend in the game, (curse you CE!) I was able to see that Destruction has about a 2:1 ratio over Order.  This initally will cause problems with lower level RvR.

For all of you DAOC Veterans, you know what will happen.  They will have bonuses to EXP and RvR points to draw more Order members.  Mid-range, this will help.  But...

Long run.  Something is wrong.  Are the order character races weak?  Is it the classes?  Both?  I think Mythic may have to make a class adjustment so an order class will be the "flavor of the moment" to boost the numbers.

Thoughts?

Originally posted by Hpnotiq

With my friend in the game, (curse you CE!) I was able to see that Destruction has about a 2:1 ratio over Order.  This initally will cause problems with lower level RvR.

 

For all of you DAOC Veterans, you know what will happen.  They will have bonuses to EXP and RvR points to draw more Order members.  Mid-range, this will help.  But...

 

Long run.  Something is wrong.  Are the order character races weak?  Is it the classes?  Both?  I think Mythic may have to make a class adjustment so an order class will be the "flavor of the moment" to boost the numbers.

 

Thoughts?

The classes are very balanced.

However, there is a large consensus that the Destruction Characters are just "more cool".

The High Elves in particular have taken a lot of heat from some people on a number of grounds. Some people don't like the Tolkienesque male elves, who don't appear "masculine enough" for some. Because of the looks in the tabletop Warhammer, which WAR follows, most of the High Elf Classes, including The Tank class, wear robes, which is another problem for those with masculinity issues.

Also, most of the female High Elf faces are horrible, so the race doesn't even win points for "eye candy".

I think Mythic was mindful of the population imbalance in WoW favoring Alliance and wanted to make Destruction more appealing. For some, this went to far.

For players open to either side, Order now has a clear advantage in that server queues for order are smaller or non-existent and queues for scenarios will be shorter.

Of course, Destruction will have an advantage in non-Scenario RvR unless the imbalances are fixed.

I think Destro armor looks more appealing than Order's, thus it may be a factor in the roll.

I havent seen population be a factor in winning, at least in Scenarios. Really depends on organization and smart playing.

 I just think not enough people have read the books. For me, reading about the Chaos made me not even want to go near Destruction. Not like I won't try it out, but...

Not in the short term, no.

I n the long term, even with queues, numbers do tell simply in the form of 'replacement'  and 'fresh' players. Mythic is going to need to keep its eye on the ball here. Amazingly, a lot of people I knew were too used to WOW as well and simply assumed htat Order would be highly populated and Destruction underplayed. I kept trying to tell them how the opposite was going to be true of WAR -- but they're so diggong on Chaos and the Greenskins thatt they rolled anyways. Seems they're hardly alone. :)

I think its too early to make such an assumption,  its just CE, next is SE, then the game goes live to the world, hence your gonna have 10x more the people playing after sept.18, so lets just wait a few weeks and see how the population is then, i think it will not be a problem at all,

i am gonna wait and see myself. i think a lot will roll order at full release. evil seems to have effects on some people so they will always roll the "good guys"

Actually, as far as I've seen, on some of the servers Dest and Order are even, and some of the servers (RP ones it seems more likely) the Order side actually outnumbers Dest! In addition, when Dest does outnumber Order, it doesn't appear to be anywhere near 2:1. Usually Order is High and Dest is Full with a small queue.

Besides, this is CE preorder codes only, Standard preorders go in tuesday, and everyone else comes in thursday. With presumably only 1/3 of the population in the game, we shouldn't worry too much about population balance just yet (and it isn't even that bad now).

You should also take note that the people who preordered the CE are more the "hardcore" crowd, where as the more casual crowd tends to flock more to the "good" side (atleast they appear to in WoW). This means the numbers could easily skew the other direction once normal people are playing and not just all us degenerates obsessed with the game