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Rog is currently playing Lord of the Rings Online, along with friends from the Gloomy Bears on the Landroval server.

Harhm (Rog)
Nelgdorf (Nelg)
Nazrin (Michelle)
Pulltab (Lurch)
Gwendelen (Aife)
Ninhydran (Philip)

We will likely be joining a guild in-game soon.

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Oct '08

Balance? Depends on the server

Rog posted in

On the Monolith server, Order is dominating Tier 3.

Our overall server population leans a bit to Destruction, but the bigger, more organized guilds bent on RvR conquest are clearly Order. With huge numbers of Ironbreakers and Bright Wizards they're sweeping across the lands, taking and holding every Keep there is.

It was the same at the beginning of Tier 1 and then Tier 2. Mark my words, it won't be long before they're burning a capital city.

Chances are though, as the massive casuals on Destruction level up, it will roll back the other way. Part of the strategy of the Order guilds is to level up ahead of the curve. That can't last forever. I can see a hint of this now as I'm departing Tier 2 it's bouncing back towards Destruction.

I'm also expecting that Order's widespread RvR and Scenario success on our server will likely attract a lot of re-rolls to that Realm. Elsewhere, Syp has even called for a migration to Order for all servers. It's a wait-and-see and anyone's guess what the landscape will be like once the majority hit Endgame.

While Syp is eating his hat over his assumption that casuals would choose Order, I'm going to eat my own over my assumption that Destruction would get both the casuals AND the hardcore. Looks like the hardcore is on Order and in the long run the casuals may just follow them.

Our server is one of the lucky ones so far, I think we're a lot more balanced than most.

(3:29 pm)

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