So out of curiosity how do you see the people you play with? I am a Hib all the way and playing the game i make alot of observations about the people i fight with and the people i fight against.


Midgard: On the whole i have respect for, Mid players tend to be more knowledgeable about their classes and anytime i fight them i fully expect them to put up a decent fight. When they win a battle for the most part they are humble about winning and often courteous if they win in a 1 on 1 fight. When it comes to a fight they are not inclined to run versus higher numbers and will really try their damnedst to rez a fallen realmmate. Sadly i dont find as many solo mids as i would like to.

Albion: Lol quite the opposite compared to Midgard. I find albs to be individually much less skilled at their classes compared to mids. Ive had some solo fights versus albs where i was at low RR and they were RR 10 to 12 and i was taken aback by how shockingly bad they were. Albs tend to be huge cowards and when confronted with a fair fight they will run to get help from their realmates without hesitation. Lol at RR3 for instance i got a drop on a solo RR11 scout and he ran to get help from two other albs in the area after he blew zephyer,slam,phase shift. Lol good job albs also tend to emote way more then mids and always after embarrassing wins like if 3 of them beat one of you. Lol /flex after getting 3 of your buddies to help you beat an enemy. Albs also given the opportunity will abandon their grp mates in a fight if it means saving their own ass. I have zero respect for albs,most of the time they have an embarrassingly pathetic and cowardly playstyle and i enjoy killing them most. I am never surprised to the depths albs will sink to when rvring.


Hibernians: There are good hibs,but there are certainly more arrogant and cliquish hibs out there. There are those players who are generally good and a joy to play with but, alot of hibs who are greedy RP whores to the point where it often hurts the realms. Ive experienced hib healers who will stand still and let yo die only to try to rez you right after for RP. Sometimes Hibs RP whore nature is too much. Like for instance one time i went to defend dun bolg and its towers versus midgard. I went into a tower,set up a palintone,loaded it with armor and i was waiting for mids to come ram the door,so my siegewrecker timer resets and i drop down to the door to drop a siegewrecker node,when i get back upstairs i find that another hib has taken over the palintone and instead of shooting at the ram,he starts firing at random mids and the whole time i am trying to plead with him to either let go the siege or at the least shoot the ram. Well he did neither,mids rammed the door down quickly came up,killed the lord and him and took Bolg. Thats a Hib defenders mindset.

However it seems to be getting better,there are some leaders like Lovein emerging who are organizing realm defense and takes and Hibernia is feeling alot less cliquish.I can understand if someone didnt want to play hib because of their greedy,cliquish and arrogant playstyle.

Don't like playing them because of gimped classes. They have the highet number of bad or broken classes.
So gimped classes made them RP whores, it's what I think.
As people I find most of the hibs very friendly unlike mids or albs.

I know it's just a silly stereotype, and it's not good to make generelisations.

But I agree that Albs are total cowards and I cannot stand them. I think they are unskilled pathetic noobs that don't know how to play this game, they only win because of numbers and easymode classes. When I kill albs I yell out "in your face b#@$*" IRL.

I suppose this is just part of the game though. We are at war and I hate the enemy.

Mind you I don't hate Midguard nearly that much. I just think its funny that if, once in a while, I decide to go solo in Alb, if I even dare to get near a bridge, I will see two visi's that I think perhaps I can take out, and then get run over by a group of 5-6 Scouts just sitting there waiting for sucker's like me to come by. I mean how the hell do you even make realm points this? Mids on the other hand will take their stealth duo or trio over to Hib land and put up a good fight against a reasonable amount of enemies, hopefully getting some RPs before getting wiped by a full group.

But that's what RvR is all about these days, just getting run over by people who have more numbers than you. When I run a full group I do not at all enjoy killing solo'ers and if I have any say in it I will tell my group not to. If its a smallman then I might run them over, because smallman's make 80% of their RPs from running around with speed5 and killing people who try to solo, so I lose quite a bit of respect for them. I also have no respect for Hersir and his buddies, who run around with 1 fg of Mids, while another FG trails not more than 20 seconds behind. So they are just out of sight, but as soon as Hersir starts a fight, they will come by and destroy everybody else in the next 10 seconds. We all know everybody loves a 16v8.

Well I don't like to complain too much. I think RvR is better if you just make it possible and just let things turn out how they do (like in its current state). I much prefer the current system rather then forcing equal number of players into stupid little 15 minute scenario's. I would surely quit DAOC is this ever happened, but I don't think there is much way to solve the numbers problem. So you either run with a FG and try to find other FG's, or run with the zerg which I find pretty boring, but you might have some chances. Even though the average Hib zerg that I run with is 3-4 full groups tops, and when we take an Alb keep, they come back 15 minutes later with 110 of them. But its fun because in keep defense sometimes we win that battle anyways.

 

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As a mid/hib player In that order I share your opinion placenta. Alb players tend to be the biggest sissies about their toons dying in rvr.

 

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Mind you this is not a complain about rvr thread,more like observations on the other side. I dont like to overgeneralize about any realm but these styles of gameplay is what i repeatedly from all 3 realms.

When it comes to albs i laugh out loud literally seeing some of the cheap ways they choose to make RP.


Like a few days ago i was roaming albion to find targets and i see a Valkyn ML decoy,so i pop SL and go to investigate and hovering around the decoy were 5 scouts,4 being RR10 and up. So they gang up and kill me and i cant help but to laugh. Did albs really log in a mid SB to make decoys and to trap enemies who got close i thought,off course,their albs lol.

It is funny that you see that much difference with all the realm hoppers. Maybe you just don't like certain realms or certain people who play on them since in general every realm is about the same. Go to any realms main bridge and you will get zerged down by the stealth zergs and coast gaurds. The zergs basically do what the zerg leader wants so hard to use them to generalize since it is basically 1 person deciding for the zerg.

On an individual level players are generally friendly and helpful on all 3 realms. There's idiots about but I don't think any realm has the monopoly. Acts of generosity tend to be more common in whatever realm is currently the underdog, which is why there's a perception that this tends to happen more in Hib and Mid than Alb.

When it comes to PUGs, Midgard seems the easiest to get a group going, Mids just want to get out there and fight with the minimum of fuss, helped by the fact most Mid classes are pretty straightforward. Hibs are the hardest to get a group together, always fretting about the perfect class setup and if everyone has the perfect buffs. Perhaps it's the fact that Bards are hard to find and a number of Hib classes are quite gimped or lack synergy. Albs find it easy to get a group going, there's always Sorcs and Minstrels about and they have zerg friendly classes. I've usually found Alb groups to be the most disorganised though.

As for fighting styles, Hibs like to camp and ambush, Mids like to roam and charge and Albs like to zerg. If Albs don't have overwhelming numbers they usually can't stomach a fight and run away a lot or use their army of Sorcs to create a ranged standoff. Hibs and Mids tend to be braver about charging when outnumbered, Mids often to the point of being wreckless. I think it's the melee realm thing with Mids, they can't usually win a ranged standoff so it's usually a case of commit everything and go for it.

Player skill varies and there's good players and well organised groups in all realms, But only with Alb have I seen quite unbelievable meltdowns where superior numbers can go into headless chicken mode where you end up thinking "how did we win/lose that" (depending which side you're on). When it comes to lame tactics, Alb definitely has the monopoly, but they have so many cheesey classes it's inevitable.

When solo, it used to be the case that Mids respected solo'ers slightly more than Albs or Hibs, but these days everyone just adds like crazy. Deathblow stealing seems a popular hobby for a lot of players too.

All generalisations I know.

Well i dont zerg or camp bridges,im sure there are people in my realm who play the same. But im basing my observations on my experiences in rvr

I have never seen this. However, I have seen idiot players accusing druids of doing it. Some people just need someone else to blame for their own stupidity.

 

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