Albs that can hack it out there do so and don't make excuses about their classes being crap or theories that their realm guards are weaker (this is directed at someone on this thread who has spread this little lie) to justify their need for numbers. Personally I agree that it's mythic's fault the population imbalance is so bad and that people need to deal with it since I don't think many albs are going to (or even should have to) leave their friends at this point but albion's population dominence on lancelot is a huge crutch for a significant percentage of its players. They actually believe that they NEED the numbers to win. That they refuse to learn how to play their class and the game better is their fault. There was a time that I actually agreed albion lacked certain abilities to make a good basic group setup but that time is long past and the game has changed.
Guilds like LA and FreeRPS wouldn't be able to pull off the massive numbers of kills on albs as effectively if players were just a little smarter...they'd still own up because they play smart and have high realm ranks but you wouldn't have situations like the FreeRPS videos show.
I have no opinion on whether Gheris is a fun guildemate to play with or not and I'm sure he has qualities his guildies and friend admire but his actions as a "leader" were inspiring the wrong elements and attitudes in albion in terms of learning how to win with something besides numbers. He hasn't done enough in terms of teaching people how to play smarter apparently.
Ex: The other night at the hadrian's/pennine border EoE rolled a group Tharf was in pretty hard...the sad thing was that we were following for a good 15 or 20 seconds before we caught up on sprint...they didn't even turn around to fight us because apparently no one was panning and that's just dumb. Let me throw salt in the wound: we weren't running a gank setup. A ranger, nightshade, 2 voiders, bard, pierce/shield hero, valewalker, and chanter. That's right, no druid with GP. Hell when I first saw you I was mad at myself because I thought you had the jump on us but lack of panning screwed you. The night before we did the same thing to something like 12 albs by eras using 7 players and again no druid. We have to roll like 2 or three keeps to even get albs to come out and play...that's ridiculous. Everything in this example is pretty common.
I love hitting mid keeps because they at least will come out to give hibs a good fight - this was true even when they had no relics. Guess being an underdog realm taught them something.
I get rolled plenty but I usually don't blame anyone but myself and try to learn from it. When I got stealth zerged at amg I learned to go through or go elsewhere instead of sitting there waiting to get farmed. When I'm in a group and get hit with the emain zerg i go someplace besides emain. When Maluv and LA put an axe in my head and kills my ranger I don't get mad and scream radar, I realize that they're high RR folks that play well together and that there was little chance my gimpy RR 5 ranger self was going to melee down a zerker. I know what's my fault and what isn't. Point is that some of you need to stop blaming others and realize what's holding you back from just BASIC improvements.
Maybe Gheris's supporter are right (I don't personally think so) but AWC breaking up is probably a good opportunity for the albs to see what really does and doesn't work...plankton will float.
Edit: oh and much love to all hibs, mids, and albs who understand why balance and fun for all three realms is a good thing for everyone.
Bah second Edit: I won't flame anyone who wants to roleplay but don't expect sympathy around here...everyone knows that certain servers are RP servers and are even designated as such. There's a reason they're in the minority and if the rest of us wanted to play on one we'd roll over there.
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For all the talking people do there is very little discussion....
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