As we do not have a useable way to get information on who is in forts or cities to make those stats anything other than fluffy “feels like” I looked at the mmr ratings per classAethilmar wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:00 pmDid that faction really come out worse?TenTonHammer wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 11:35 am This game has diviated so far from the AoR of old that's it's almost like a different game in terms of balance and design and one faction clearly came out worse for it
Does Destro actually lose in head to head matchups more?
City numbers (anecdotally) suggest not and are usually relatively balanced in final outcome.
Ranked ratings also suggest the faction as a whole can hold its own.
SCs (anecdotally once again) feel about the same.
Maybe Forts are actually harder for Destro now although hard to tell with new mechanics.
And we all (should) know that zone caps are mostly about "the will to win" also known as organization and numbers instead of metas and that may be where destro is lacking atm.
That is, some of the organized guilds (who could still dominate and do very well) are pissed off at X or Y or Z and have left b/c their favorite thing A, B or C was changed and they don't like it. Not that XYZ or ABC is unfair. They just don't like it. So now the faction more frequently gets run over in the lakes.
This is all about attitudes and changing tastes and, quite frankly, people just moving on b/c of other things.
https://postimg.cc/JyS8fW7B
(Less than 10 games removed, so some classes not represented on both Destro and order)
The graph is median mmr (number of wins that was shown in season summary only shows mmr matching is working) , and median used to remove extremes of certain good/bad players to try and get what mmr an average player should expect.
Even if it is clear that 6v6 is not that representative of rvr is gives a strong indication of the classes.
You see directly that class 1 is well above the other classes, slayer and the big drop on class 13 is a Destro class .
So the only decent (half decent) quantative numbers show there is an order advantage
Big difference between slayer and Choppa in order favor
Big difference between SM and BO in order favor
Other classes in this statistics (not aoe considered as 6v6) seem within reasonable level