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According to this, the population on the Phoenix Throne server, the server I play on, is very balanced. 51% Destruction v 49% Order. But this week since moving into Tier 3, Destruction has been dominating Open RvR. And I’ve been getting online at about 3 or 4am and have been joining full or near full warbands and reclaiming keeps unopposed. While I don’t mind the PvE aspect of keep claiming it is 10 times more gratifying to capture a keep from defending players. An organised group can take an undefended keep in 10 minutes, but a siege that is defended by real live players can take hours.
I asked one of our guildies last night how the scenarios were going, since he’d been doing them for most of the night. “Order winning them as usual” was his response. I haven’t really done many Tier 3 scenarios because frankly they’re starting to lose their appeal and I prefer ORvR, and getting constantly thrashed 500-20 takes the shine away. So why do the forces of Order so dominate T3 scenarios, and is a virtual no show in ORvR? Some forum threads seem to think that scenarios favour Order classes. Could this be true and are Order going for the easy victories rather than the hard fought ones?
Comments
Comment from Ainilome
Time: October 30, 2008, 2:09 pm
Nearly every most often played Order class having knockbacks + Lava = Order having fun. Freck, last night Telvarian got knocked in the lava from our spawn point, managed to hop from rock to rock healing himself and make it out to meet an Ironbreaker standing on the oposite bank, alone, waiting … to knock him right back in.
Order brings mainly Runepriests/Archmages, BW and IB/SM. The tanks rush, throwing people everywhere, the healers spam heal and have their own knockbacks and of course the BW do what they do. Usually our forces are mainly MDPS or RDPS, very few tanks or healers. We just get rolled over.
Comment from Kyrana
Time: October 30, 2008, 4:13 pm
I think it’s just rolling the dice and taking your chances. Hard to say what the “real” picture is unless you’re on 24/7, which I’m not. My ORvR experiences have been very much give and take, during north american “peak” hours. I’ve felt like Order has the edge in scenarios in T3, but then again, I haven’t been doing that many of them lately, as I’ve been focused on other things. I think the balance is definately there, but it’s hit or miss as to what kind of night you have.
Comment from caliga
Time: October 30, 2008, 5:43 pm
I was reading Warhammer Alliance today and something they discussed rings true with me; the success of premades v PuGs. I know when we first started doing T2 scenarios we felt like we were losing a lot more than we were winning, but when we had 6 guildies, 3 or 4 on Vent, we seemed to win 90% of them.
Comment from jade
Time: June 12, 2009, 6:03 pm
how do you join wiard 101 I cant find it
caliga
Comment from JoBildo
Time: October 30, 2008, 8:04 am
It seems to be server dependent really.
On Averheim, I’ve got a pretty even record, of wins:losses and both sides are complaining about the other side “always winning”.
I don’t think either side is favored, just that luck is sometimes a bitchy woman to have on your side.