Destruction's dominance is temporary, says Mythic's Drescher

Destruction ftw! Love me some greenskins!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!!!

Problem ist - no "knight in shining armor" class present atm, only elfs with stupid helmets and small round armored barrels named Ironbreaker

Sadly, there are a lot of 'good boi' alliance nubs among Destruction at the moment. Hope we trim off the weak, shouldn't be winning 4/5, should be 5/5.

That single loss is cause of the doodz who play chics (or BEs) rolling Destruction.

...but honestly, Destruction vs. Order seems to be dependent on the time of day in Wolfenburg. During the day Order mow us down in BGs. At night, we roll them.

All of the destruction toons look badass. All of the order toons look stupid. You decide.

"Actually, a lot of people have been going in and choosing Order deliberately. Whether they saw the shorter queues or knew they'd have more opportunity to participate in Scenarios, or they just wanted an increased challenge ... we're seeing a lot of people move to Order."

I originally wanted to play a Disciple of Khaine really bad, but I went Warrior Priest for this reason. Someday when the pop levels out maybe I'll make some destro characters.

I play Empire/Order because I play Empire in REAL Warhammer. I realize though that I am in the minority.

The days of "Everyone wants to save the princess and have shiny armor." are fast fading. Drescher needs to look at the world around him (including his own country where there is a homicide every 30 mins) and realize that if so many people are evil in real life, where they will actually face real life consequnces, then the numbers will be tenfold in virtual world where there is no consequence for being the bad guy.

Mythic needs to come to terms with the fact that they made one side really really cool and one side kinda lame and dorky. And this issue is so central to the game, that if they don't do something soon, I'm afraid the game will be ruined. Make changes now before Order starts rerolling Destruction en masse!

Hey there Michael... another article on how Order will, someday, out number Destruction. Why is it that everyone keeps thinking that the general computer gamer wants to play the "good guy"?

Here are some VERY simple reasons why WAR players turn to destruction:

#1 - THE BIGGEST REASON - Nearly every bit of Warhammer marketing features Destruction. Further, the media also chooses to utilize pictures enhancing the allure of Destruction. Case in point, lets look at the picture you used for this news bit. Huge massive orc up against a single, small dwarf. From this picture... who is going to win? Do you want to be the dwarf fighting against the odds or the massive orc about to kill the small stuntie? In a PvP game, people tend to choose the winning side.

#2 - World of Warcraft is the popular MMO right? Well, we ALL know that in PvP Horde owns Alliance on average. Sure, this have changed over time, but for the majority of WoW's existance, Horde won the battlegrounds. So, well... you have a LOT of players trained that the winning side is the destruction side, especially all the players who lost bad as Alliance and what their time in the sun. Those are probably those heroes your hoping will go Order soon.

#3 - Mythic have some favoritism to Destruction. If you get the collector edition, do you get an Order miniature? No you get an Orc. After playing both sides, it also feels as though the Destruction side of the quests are slightly more polished. Just slightly.

It's not like Mythic couldn't have seen this comming a mile away as the imbalance was quite evident in beta. Now that the game is live it's even more pronounced.

I haven't seem this much zerging since I played on Lancelot in DAoC. It appears Destruction is the new Albion.