Comments on: Realm Balance

By: Xml

Xml — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:07:29 +0000

I’ve spent much of today in T4 sceanrios. This evening has been really brutal – not won Serpents once all day. There is a level imbalance with Destro having more 40 than order playing ( not sure if this is true globally but in scenarios it is). There also seems to be an imbalance of clases which added to the level imbalance has been giving destro the edge all weekend.

There appear to be far fewer order tanks and, to some degree, order healers. With the apparent level imbalance this means that Order have a hill to climb to win.

The long term impact is more disturbing. Currently Destro are getting up to 20k xp and 2-4k renown a scenario. This means that on joining t4 they are likely to level 2-4 times faster than Order which will mean that the imbalance will take longer to even out.

Also, this means that the grind to the top renown level will also be similarly imbalanced assuming that renown rewards and skills upgrade them quicker.

I do wonder if this will cause Order players to switch or leave?

Mythic are trying to even this using xp and renown bonuses on some servers, but if your’e not on one of these then prepare for an uphill struggle.

I would like to see the statistics for the servers , Order, Destro , Avg level time etc.

I think this would highlight what is really happening.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:01:57 +0000

So far, so good.

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Da Bloody Twenty - September 25 « Waaagh! A Warhammer Online Blog — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:04:01 +0000

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By: nerrollus

nerrollus — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:32:37 +0000

I don’t remember where I read/heard it, but someone said the same theory was out there for World of Warcraft when it was in beta. Horde had most of the population and there were concerns that Alliance was always going to be out-popped on the live servers. However, from what I hear, that’s the complete opposite… Alliance tends to out-pop Horde. Generally people just prefer to be the “good guys” and the pretty elves over the scared and war-torn orcs.

By: Sinnach

Sinnach — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:36:23 +0000

Yeah. Here on Badlands, Destruction doesn’t own a keep or node for more than about an hour before order takes it and keeps it. Currently in t3, theres not a single rvr objective that isn’t controlled by order. Guess I’m playing on bizarro server.

By: nerrollus

nerrollus — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:53:48 +0000

I’m just wanted to point out your data point isn’t going to reflect a true trend unless you were taking data for both sides on the same server. As I pointed out, my own experiences have been the complete oposite of yours. It’s very likely that the balance is going to be different based on which server you play on. This morning I deleted my destruction character and started an order character on the same server to join some friends and the queue times for order are much, much longer than the queue times for destruction.

I’m going to agree with the opinion that the blance will eventually balance out as the game matures and the population influx from release levels out. Didn’t Mythic say that they have a system in place to help ensure the population doesn’t get too far out of whack on a server?

By: Melf_Himself

Melf_Himself — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:09:03 +0000

I agree with your initial assessment. However, I think matters will tend to equilibriate in time – the first couple of months are likely the worst it’s going to be. Many people frustrated playing destruction will switch to another server and try order.

I didn’t foresee these problems and just went order for the underdog challenge. I’m glad I did because I like doing the scenarios, though I may regret it when progressing into open RvR later.

By: Weekend of WAR « Hardcore Casual

Weekend of WAR « Hardcore Casual — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:29:45 +0000

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By: Thallian

Thallian — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:13:08 +0000

heh, I think we need some more time to go by before we can say. Its only been a couple days. People will roll to whichever side they think has the upper hand.

p.s. (what’s so biologically improbable about squigs? Oh, never mind :P)

By: Zubon

Zubon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:35:19 +0000

nerrollus, Casualties of WAR plays Order on Averheim and Destruction on Thorgrim.

I do expect there to be server variances. I am more interested in general trends here, not the individual servers that are dominated by guilds x, y, and z. If those variances are significant enough, however, they can be very meaningful. If one devoted guild can flip the balance, the imbalance is not too severe.