wonshot wrote: Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:38 am
So after this patch and the moral bandaid, I was personally very interested in how this would look tonight monday, and on wedsday since that is when Order are actually in the rvr lakes now.
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1. slayer, 2.bw, 3.wh, destro, 5.bw, 6.engi
This was Reikland after about 2and a half hours of play, CNTK, some pug tail and in the last 30min during siege an additional pug warband. Order having about 100 aao the entire zone, and it could had been even worse if TUP didnt desite that PQ22 was more of a challenge than chasing the one order warband around the entire zone, like the rest of the other 2-3 destro warbands.
So what am I getting at here, am I bragging about kills? no, not at all. The CNTK warband had about 3 BW in the warband during this Zone, and while I can understand the fear and trauma some destro mains instantly jumped to, when they saw the patchnotes about Ruin and Destruction being reverted to 1200 damage, I think it is safe to say that this wasn't very far off from my own analysis:
"reverting BW and Mara M2 will only mean Organized Order warbands will pug stomp a little faster, where as Organized destro warbands will stand a better chance in the organized warband fights vs order, due to the natural outcome of having drain and moral dump on the same class"
So we shall see on wedsday, I personally predict a roaring landslide when it comes to destro dominance, but hope I am wrong.
(order still need utility tools, and destro need a damage buff)
This only helped pugstomping, and will not help Order, if that was the intended result. However armor debuff on RP was not used.
we've been working on our pve game!
It's actually nice to be able to do something as a guild together when rvr lakes are dead in primetime, by dead i mean uncompetitive or imbalanced for us and unfair on enemy. (CH22 is fairly decent now its fixed just needs a bit of organisation)
we've died more in pve than rvr so far but i expect we will die a couple times tonight we will see.
Im not worried about co-ordinated morales on order, is not going to be anywhere close to the level that Phalanx was using morales at all... nobody specialised in that better so its not fear, as already overcome more challanges from rusblob and others when they had strong morale use.
The issue is stopgap reverting and thinking the problem is fixed... Its partially order's players fault for not running more BW's but its partially balance fault for not making other order dps characters more viable and a legitmate option yet, so order get a healthy choice in lineup. Requiring 7 + BW's under the same banner is pretty hard even for more disciplined guilds, and order has a more casual mindset / relaxed approach (pug heavy) so that is why you struggle to see this revert have a massive impact on the battlefield, although that tool is there again just not being utilized fully yet. If we was on order, i know it would make some impact as we would bring more bw together, but order setup and looks is fairly undesirable.
The only thing desirable besides seeing the glorious macro spam from bitterstone on order is, when they have AAO so there is more people to fight and kill (the only reason to consider playing them)... but then if you bomb enemy too hard they disappear / swap sides (as most players like to zerg and win instead of pick a side and fight to death) and you have to play cat and mouse game again which is what we use to do when enemy disappeared, but unlike some others we would never do it in cheesey ways i.e encourage keep attack swap sides farm them because thats weak and too much trolling.
If order had the potential to run a melee train or bomb setup then that is progress imo. Destro can run both. Fine margins can make things snowball, a little love in the right places and a bit more utility then i don't see why order can't be equally competitive again, it will come down to player numbers/organisation instead of class balance / spread of useful classes... because if you look at orvr lakes and compared the realms, you would see currently order brings alot more useless classes in orvr compared to destro and also they do this while being outnumbered so it really hurts them two fold again that is partially player fault but it is what it is. Order getting new debuff from rp is step in right direction atleast as its another tool for them to use, which can only be a good thing as order needs some tender loving care.