Dwarves are higher do beacause alot of information has been giving on their classes. We know that how ironbreaker, Hammer(lots of knockbacks/knockdowns), Runepriest (hot healer), Engineer(hunter w/o a pet). work and people can decide if they want to play them. Very few peopel atm would pick DE black guard caause we no next to nothing about them.
Doing this poll during open beta whne the NDA lifts will be alot more revealing as other people like to pick classes they percevie to be powerful or similar to what they like. Some people like ranged guns (here engineer, Shadow warrior, and Squig herder). or maybe they want a pet class (squig herder, white lioin?, magus? (their disc they fly on in lore can shoot spells of its own)
Too many unknowns for this kind of poll to be accurate.
Destruction is lame I'm gonna pick Order, most likely an Engineer
-------------------------------------- A human and an Elf get captured by Skaven. The rat-men are getting ready to shoot the first hostage with Dwarf-made guns when he yells, "Earthquake!" The naturally nervous Skaven run and hide from the imaginary threat. He escapes. The Skaven regroup and bring out the Elf. Being very smart, the Elf has figured out what to do. When the Skaven get ready to shoot, the Elf, in order to scare them, yells, "Fire!"
I'm going to roll a warrior-priest on release day. I've always enjoyed the healer role in MMOs, but standing in the back not really doing anything else was always the big downside. Even when playing as a character with solid survivability (like my old resto shaman) there was still never any reason to go up front.
Now I get to heal and be in the front smacking things with my hammer
I voted Dark Elf, but I will probably end up joining whichever side needs players. All of the races seem cool, all the classes even. Based on the limited info I have right now, I think I'd be happy playing any race/class. That's a good sign imo.
Normally I hate Dwarves with a passion, but in WAR they have some of the most interesting classes. I'm even considering playing a Dwarf at this point. Bottom line, all of the races/classes are compelling and eminently playable. I doubt if faction balance will be a major issue when all is said and done.
Man what is with teh dwarves, the engis look amazing with the bombs and stuff. But if i dont play that witch hunter for me.
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The groups themselves I'm pretty confident about, but not the order within the groups (that's why I used bullets instead of numbers). In other words, I wouldn't be surprised if Empire ended up being more popular than Dark Elves, but I would be surprised if High Elves ended up being more popular than Chaos.
I will be a hammerer. Bashing people with a hammer, can it be any more glorious?
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Im gonna call it for you right now... same things gonna happen here that has happened in EVERY game the past 15 years of MMO's
everyone is gonna start out making "cool charachters" and playing hybrids and other classes that do cool things.
By the time everyone knows the game and it comes time to pvp against others people wil figure out that you can kill MORE people if you have one small unit working together comprised of Healers that heal, support classes that support and tanks that are sturdy.
Remember daoc? everyone ran around in a zerg... healers speced smite, casters speced for aoe and tanks just ran out and died to arrow fire. Once we all learned the game? Every group was 3 healers who healed and 5 tanks for the most part.
Remember wow? everyone played a rogue or a hunter and all the healers speced shadow. Casters speced for aoe and everyone ran around in a zerg. what happened once 5v5 arena started? 2 warriors, 2 healers that healed (priest and a paladin) became the "go to " mold for a group and casters speced for single target damage and DOT's
So im calling it right now. There are two healers that heal in the game... rune priest and the chaos priest. And there are two heavy tanks.... one in orks and one in Dwarves... and there are also two no frills light tanks.... one in dwarves one in orks. So I think dwarves will be rare in the beginning but everyone will have to reroll to make the best tank and best support class.
I think in the end Rune priest will be the best class in the game. because its support only type. it will be like the midgard healer and the holy paladin.
Im gonna call it for you right now... same things gonna happen here that has happened in EVERY game the past 15 years of MMO's
everyone is gonna start out making "cool charachters" and playing hybrids and other classes that do cool things. By the time everyone knows the game and it comes time to pvp against others people wil figure out that you can kill MORE people if you have one small unit working together comprised of Healers that heal, support classes that support and tanks that are sturdy.
Remember daoc? everyone ran around in a zerg... healers speced smite, casters speced for aoe and tanks just ran out and died to arrow fire. Once we all learned the game? Every group was 3 healers who healed and 5 tanks for the most part. Remember wow? everyone played a rogue or a hunter and all the healers speced shadow. Casters speced for aoe and everyone ran around in a zerg. what happened once 5v5 arena started? 2 warriors, 2 healers that healed (priest and a paladin) became the "go to " mold for a group and casters speced for single target damage and DOT's So im calling it right now. There are two healers that heal in the game... rune priest and the chaos priest. And there are two heavy tanks.... one in orks and one in Dwarves... and there are also two no frills light tanks.... one in dwarves one in orks. So I think dwarves will be rare in the beginning but everyone will have to reroll to make the best tank and best support class. I think in the end Rune priest will be the best class in the game. because its support only type. it will be like the midgard healer and the holy paladin.
That sounds like good predictions.
You know what just this reply was worth all the flaming i got for doing this Post in the first place.
While we may not give a overall idea, consider it a focus group, if anything it can show a trend.
I think for once the evil or atleast uglier looking side will have more. They had a talk about how in beta for WOW horde was all the rage yet come release alliance is the top shit, honestly if ya ask me its because 12 year olds cant do beta. Although for me i wonder what kind of 12 year old doesnt want to be the big ass tauren or the ugly ork anything along those lines, i would of jumped all over it. For w/e reason the good races are always the most human like.
Also to the person who said greenskins will be the least played, if i remember the shaman was one of the more look forwared to class (im so making 1 after my marauder) it has a special unique system with the gods being jealous!
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Dwarves are higher do beacause alot of information has been giving on their classes. We know that how ironbreaker, Hammer(lots of knockbacks/knockdowns), Runepriest (hot healer), Engineer(hunter w/o a pet). work and people can decide if they want to play them. Very few peopel atm would pick DE black guard caause we no next to nothing about them.
Doing this poll during open beta whne the NDA lifts will be alot more revealing as other people like to pick classes they percevie to be powerful or similar to what they like. Some people like ranged guns (here engineer, Shadow warrior, and Squig herder). or maybe they want a pet class (squig herder, white lioin?, magus? (their disc they fly on in lore can shoot spells of its own)
Too many unknowns for this kind of poll to be accurate.
Destruction is lame I'm gonna pick Order, most likely an Engineer
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A human and an Elf get captured by Skaven. The rat-men are getting ready to shoot the first hostage with Dwarf-made guns when he yells, "Earthquake!" The naturally nervous Skaven run and hide from the imaginary threat. He escapes. The Skaven regroup and bring out the Elf. Being very smart, the Elf has figured out what to do. When the Skaven get ready to shoot, the Elf, in order to scare them, yells, "Fire!"
Order of the White Border.
I'm going to roll a warrior-priest on release day. I've always enjoyed the healer role in MMOs, but standing in the back not really doing anything else was always the big downside. Even when playing as a character with solid survivability (like my old resto shaman) there was still never any reason to go up front.
Now I get to heal and be in the front smacking things with my hammer
FYI, I usually give fake responses to these polls to throw people off. Or do I?
149 votes, and my race choices are first and last. :-)
Nobody likes the High Elves.
Except me XD
I think you guys are still looking at this all wrong. its 2 sides with 3 races. if you dont play dwarves and insted play highelves... its the same.
you play a race to get the class you want to play.
I voted Dark Elf, but I will probably end up joining whichever side needs players. All of the races seem cool, all the classes even. Based on the limited info I have right now, I think I'd be happy playing any race/class. That's a good sign imo.
Normally I hate Dwarves with a passion, but in WAR they have some of the most interesting classes. I'm even considering playing a Dwarf at this point. Bottom line, all of the races/classes are compelling and eminently playable. I doubt if faction balance will be a major issue when all is said and done.
Probably going to be a Hammerer
None of them on the poll there are enuf games with fracking elves and dwaves come up with something original !!!!!
Not coming up with something original is kinda the point of using an established IP.
And High Elves are lowest?
Come on, that's not gonna happen and you all know it.
The only way I'd ever play an order char would have to be if the devs created a Slayer dwarf class, otherwise I'm a sucker for the bad guys.
Why is this thread still alive?
i have a feeling Dwarves and Empire would be the least played.
Dwarves almost definately and Empire only by a small amount.
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
Man what is with teh dwarves, the engis look amazing with the bombs and stuff. But if i dont play that witch hunter for me.
Hold on Snow Leopard, imma let you finish, but Windows had one of the best operating systems of all time.
If the Powerball lottery was like Lotro, nobody would win for 2 years, and then everyone in Nebraska would win on the same day.
And then Nebraska would get nerfed.-pinkwood lotro fourms
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My personal guess:
Most played:
Followed by:
Least played:
The groups themselves I'm pretty confident about, but not the order within the groups (that's why I used bullets instead of numbers). In other words, I wouldn't be surprised if Empire ended up being more popular than Dark Elves, but I would be surprised if High Elves ended up being more popular than Chaos.
As much as some folks dont like this poll i think it has its place and still Reveals a bit of thuth
In my opinion it deserves to be Seen.
I will post here... can't hurt.
I will be a hammerer. Bashing people with a hammer, can it be any more glorious?
$OE lies list
http://www.rlmmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=424&start=0
"
And I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires" because *I* don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what *I* saw is ******* vampires! "
With time its balancing itself out.
Started off with overwelming destruction numbers and now Order is slowly catching up
Human or Dwarf if I go Order.
Chaos or Greenskin if I go Destruction.
Im gonna call it for you right now... same things gonna happen here that has happened in EVERY game the past 15 years of MMO's
everyone is gonna start out making "cool charachters" and playing hybrids and other classes that do cool things.
By the time everyone knows the game and it comes time to pvp against others people wil figure out that you can kill MORE people if you have one small unit working together comprised of Healers that heal, support classes that support and tanks that are sturdy.
Remember daoc? everyone ran around in a zerg... healers speced smite, casters speced for aoe and tanks just ran out and died to arrow fire. Once we all learned the game? Every group was 3 healers who healed and 5 tanks for the most part.
Remember wow? everyone played a rogue or a hunter and all the healers speced shadow. Casters speced for aoe and everyone ran around in a zerg. what happened once 5v5 arena started? 2 warriors, 2 healers that healed (priest and a paladin) became the "go to " mold for a group and casters speced for single target damage and DOT's
So im calling it right now. There are two healers that heal in the game... rune priest and the chaos priest. And there are two heavy tanks.... one in orks and one in Dwarves... and there are also two no frills light tanks.... one in dwarves one in orks. So I think dwarves will be rare in the beginning but everyone will have to reroll to make the best tank and best support class.
I think in the end Rune priest will be the best class in the game. because its support only type. it will be like the midgard healer and the holy paladin.
My main order character maybe gonna be Shadow Warrior and main destruction character quite likely is Sorceress.
That sounds like good predictions.
You know what just this reply was worth all the flaming i got for doing this Post in the first place.
Thank you.
well i will be a chaos marauder.
While we may not give a overall idea, consider it a focus group, if anything it can show a trend.
I think for once the evil or atleast uglier looking side will have more. They had a talk about how in beta for WOW horde was all the rage yet come release alliance is the top shit, honestly if ya ask me its because 12 year olds cant do beta. Although for me i wonder what kind of 12 year old doesnt want to be the big ass tauren or the ugly ork anything along those lines, i would of jumped all over it. For w/e reason the good races are always the most human like.
Also to the person who said greenskins will be the least played, if i remember the shaman was one of the more look forwared to class (im so making 1 after my marauder) it has a special unique system with the gods being jealous!
I'll most likely make a shadow warrior for my first character then, chaos magus for the second.
It looks to me that the side's are going to be slightly better balanced than they are in warcraft.
Poll's like these of course only give a nominal indication of player distribution and may not correlate to the figures at launch.