Order and Destro Community differences
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:45 am
A couple of things before I start, first sorry for my poor English, and second this is just my opinion based on my personal experience in 17 months in RoR.
I see tons of post talking about class or faction balance/differences, but today I wanna talk about the community.
I played 1 year on Order only, mostly with my main, a KotBS, after finish my Invader I decided to let him rest and try the Destro side rolling a Black Orc (that I'm currently playing).
Order, in general, have a good community, most of the people tend to play together as a faction and have fun. However, Order lack of hard-core players and guild, reducing the chance to play competitively for people that prefer that style, probably because of that, 99% of the Order WBs in RvR are all open and is very easy to find a group regardless of your level and/or spec. (except for healers DPS, no one love them ), there are also plenty of good and nice Pug-WB leaders. For the majority, Order is composed of nice but casual players with ofc few exceptions, there are also pretty toxic people too, luckily they are just few.
On the PVE side, I noticed that is very rare to find groups for GB, Crypt/Tunnel and BS (that can also finishing it) due to the dominant casual mentality and low interest on invest so much time in a dungeon.
On general PVP side (rvr and sc) Order tend to "QQ" way too much about "Choppa yolo-pull", "Devs play Destro", and mostly happens during Fort. for sc the most common QQ is the vast number of AM in pure DPS spec. Personally I not agree with Choppa pull or Devs play Destro to be an issue, for the AM DPS.... well if you see just 2 healers and both are AM DPS, they should be flexible and switch healing even with the wrong spec, instead of pewpew but free lose but that is just my opinion.
In conclusion, I recommend playing Order if you wanna play as a casual but with most of the people still being nice to you without big expectation about super-elite groups (still there are, but rare).
In general, Destro side is way ruder and surprisingly more childish, but the best persons I have ever met in this game are all Destro, same with the most rude, Destro have huge peek in both directions, you can find the sweetest people but also the worst piece of ****. You can find full geared people that will nicely help you on quest/dungeon or simply advice, but you can also find that type of guy that will criticize all your choice, talisman/gear etc., and repeat how much he's better than you, very annoying especially for newcomers.
On PVE side, Destro have more activity on the dungeon or ch22 farm than Order, it's easier to start a dungeon and also finishing without no one quit, and players overall are more prepared with bosses strategy.
For PVP, Destro is more elitist, in all tiers (from T2 to T4) most of the WB are closed and prefers lv 40 with a minimum of decent gear, is not rare to find 0 open WB in a zone with 70+ players, making thing hard for non-dedicated players. There are also a lot of 6-man groups premade for both rvr-roaming and sc compared to Order (I probably saw very rarely people looking for a 6-man roaming group in Order) and I saw 2 active guilds in RVR with their own WB (on Order side there are basically 0 guilds running their own WB). Like Order, Destro have no-sense "QQ" too, most are related to WL, Engi insane range and Xrealmer (most of them don't even understand what an Xrealmer is, but hey! Everyone QQ about that, I'll do it! ).
In conclusion, I recommend Destro if you plan to play more Hard-Core and looking for small group/guild rather than a realm casual interaction, with the right group you can enjoy RoR 100% on both PVP and PVE side.
With that saying is obvious that can find Hard-Core scenario in Order and Casual scenario in Destro, just they are rarer.
This, in short, is my opinion based on my personal experience in RoR and ofc during my timezone (Asia), I'm curious what is the experience of other people with the RoR community, because in the end, in 10+ years, what will remain in your memory about this game will not be your gear but the people you met and how you played the game.
I see tons of post talking about class or faction balance/differences, but today I wanna talk about the community.
I played 1 year on Order only, mostly with my main, a KotBS, after finish my Invader I decided to let him rest and try the Destro side rolling a Black Orc (that I'm currently playing).
Order, in general, have a good community, most of the people tend to play together as a faction and have fun. However, Order lack of hard-core players and guild, reducing the chance to play competitively for people that prefer that style, probably because of that, 99% of the Order WBs in RvR are all open and is very easy to find a group regardless of your level and/or spec. (except for healers DPS, no one love them ), there are also plenty of good and nice Pug-WB leaders. For the majority, Order is composed of nice but casual players with ofc few exceptions, there are also pretty toxic people too, luckily they are just few.
On the PVE side, I noticed that is very rare to find groups for GB, Crypt/Tunnel and BS (that can also finishing it) due to the dominant casual mentality and low interest on invest so much time in a dungeon.
On general PVP side (rvr and sc) Order tend to "QQ" way too much about "Choppa yolo-pull", "Devs play Destro", and mostly happens during Fort. for sc the most common QQ is the vast number of AM in pure DPS spec. Personally I not agree with Choppa pull or Devs play Destro to be an issue, for the AM DPS.... well if you see just 2 healers and both are AM DPS, they should be flexible and switch healing even with the wrong spec, instead of pewpew but free lose but that is just my opinion.
In conclusion, I recommend playing Order if you wanna play as a casual but with most of the people still being nice to you without big expectation about super-elite groups (still there are, but rare).
In general, Destro side is way ruder and surprisingly more childish, but the best persons I have ever met in this game are all Destro, same with the most rude, Destro have huge peek in both directions, you can find the sweetest people but also the worst piece of ****. You can find full geared people that will nicely help you on quest/dungeon or simply advice, but you can also find that type of guy that will criticize all your choice, talisman/gear etc., and repeat how much he's better than you, very annoying especially for newcomers.
On PVE side, Destro have more activity on the dungeon or ch22 farm than Order, it's easier to start a dungeon and also finishing without no one quit, and players overall are more prepared with bosses strategy.
For PVP, Destro is more elitist, in all tiers (from T2 to T4) most of the WB are closed and prefers lv 40 with a minimum of decent gear, is not rare to find 0 open WB in a zone with 70+ players, making thing hard for non-dedicated players. There are also a lot of 6-man groups premade for both rvr-roaming and sc compared to Order (I probably saw very rarely people looking for a 6-man roaming group in Order) and I saw 2 active guilds in RVR with their own WB (on Order side there are basically 0 guilds running their own WB). Like Order, Destro have no-sense "QQ" too, most are related to WL, Engi insane range and Xrealmer (most of them don't even understand what an Xrealmer is, but hey! Everyone QQ about that, I'll do it! ).
In conclusion, I recommend Destro if you plan to play more Hard-Core and looking for small group/guild rather than a realm casual interaction, with the right group you can enjoy RoR 100% on both PVP and PVE side.
With that saying is obvious that can find Hard-Core scenario in Order and Casual scenario in Destro, just they are rarer.
This, in short, is my opinion based on my personal experience in RoR and ofc during my timezone (Asia), I'm curious what is the experience of other people with the RoR community, because in the end, in 10+ years, what will remain in your memory about this game will not be your gear but the people you met and how you played the game.