I was wondering if there's a side that seems to be "underdog" at the moment. As far as I have seen when coming to the site from time to time, Midgard has had its keeps taken quite often in Frontiers (coincidence?).
I have been a player since launch and stopped last year due to my disinterest in all of the new changes implemented. Is there a realm that could use me more than the others?

Thanks

Mids and Albs simply doesn't take care about their keeps so much it seems

Hibs were down to the floor and beaten by Albs and Mids for a few months and only got strong again recently (not due to changes on the server but due to changes within the hib community). So there is no real underdog out there atm.

All 3 realms are fairly even. See Statistics on Herald. Play the real where you will feel most at home and have fun.

Yes its best to play the realm that has the classes youd like to play, since when it comes to keeps, they are there for taking DF and that is about it. When it comes to Relics, they dont change owners that often, and one realm will have them for awhile. At one point the albs had them all, then mids, then mixed, and now Hibs and so on. Just takes that rare day where everyone wants to do the raids. But here is something you should consider with lvl 50 RvR, its in Email, so if your in Alb or Mid, its a ..... what 8 min wait or less now, and for hib youl have to ride a horse ( which your volruble on ) to Brifine, then have to run to Emain, takes about the same amount of time as the other realms, some what. If you play alb, you have to get past AMG first, and that will have tons of enemys at, while MMG will have some , but im sure much less then AMG. So consider those things, and make your choice to have fun with your choice. Or else you may not have fun.

on uth, there is no underdog, ppl tend to leave one realm to join another as fast as they change underwaer, realm pride seems to be a word most uth players don't have in their dictionary, some of them serve noble causes, they join the realm that needs help, most of them are not so noble, they are like the rats that leave the sinking ship.. i would love to see te stats abouth players leaving alb and mid to join hibernia cause all relics are over there..
uth is a freechard, you can create all the accounts you want, you can x-realm al you want, so a lot of ppl just play daoc, not alb or hib or mid, they play the realm that has the most chances to give em rp's...

just my 2 cents

Thanks for the replies. I am a little wary about x-realming, but since I don't have to participate in it myself I think it's probably just a good idea for me to join alb or mid because I enjoy filling in the cracks wherever they might be at the moment.

Thanks again, I will see you in there!

monty wrote:on uth, there is no underdog, ppl tend to leave one realm to join another as fast as they change underwaer, realm pride seems to be a word most uth players don't have in their dictionary, some of them serve noble causes, they join the realm that needs help, most of them are not so noble, they are like the rats that leave the sinking ship.. i would love to see te stats abouth players leaving alb and mid to join hibernia cause all relics are over there..
uth is a freechard, you can create all the accounts you want, you can x-realm al you want, so a lot of ppl just play daoc, not alb or hib or mid, they play the realm that has the most chances to give em rp's...

just my 2 cents

Sad truth...

Kaputnik wrote:Thanks for the replies. I am a little wary about x-realming, but since I don't have to participate in it myself I think it's probably just a good idea for me to join alb or mid because I enjoy filling in the cracks wherever they might be at the moment.

Thanks again, I will see you in there!

Don't mind the replies too much( not even mine, i did have lovely times here, though in another setting ), while i guess there is some truth in them some ppl do go with the wind(relics, balance). I've never got further then 30ish on other realms... which is mostly cause i love albion and idolise it cause of my live xp. ( and also cause i hate lvling, and one of my characters has been rendered useless due to bugs...) Good thing i have two, right?

When chosing a realm i'd be cautious of mid( or not ) for the obvious advantage they have in melee combat (melee favored server), i still think, ANY, melee mid setup could own anything on this server. And i'm talking 8vs8 now, zergs or adding or whatever, from mid side, are laughable... Even a low RR mid melee grp can own a high hib/alb grp without serious trouble imo.

Hib has had their animist boost again, though it was hell in agra, it's back. It basicly means though (really) keep takes with defending hibs are useless. It also means hard to take relics. Some adjustment in 8vs8, but tanglers don't make it impossible to beat em, harder, yes.

Albs, offc have their advantages, they have a theurgist, it's not op, grps can counter it, but noob grps will die on it. The split of functionality in Alb is probably the strong point, know your job and do it well.


In the end, the question comes down to this, are you a soloer? Make a ranger on hib... Are you a nostalgic zerger? Go either realm, every realm has his adder 'stuck in 2003, push my playstyle onto others' groups. Are you an 8vs8 player? Go to an instant server, there is no 8vs8 here anymore, besides the slow incs in offtimes. ( To conclude, this is the biggest problem Uthgard faces ATM, there is no mariage in playstyles, it's one or the other, which means ppl log out, don't play at all or join the zerg/addfest ) This once existed on Uthgard though, there was solo/smallman/fg/zerg playstyles in agramon.

Rizla wrote:This once existed on Uthgard though, there was solo/smallman/fg/zerg playstyles in agramon.

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On a more seroius note, what Rizla said i quite correct.

no its not, guilds like anguish and DG made it impossible to solo in agramon, and nowadays theres more of that type roaming in OF, agramon would simply be the hell for everyone trying to solo, lot worse than it is now

Bloodwyne wrote:no its not, guilds like anguish and DG made it impossible to solo in agramon, and nowadays theres more of that type roaming in OF, agramon would simply be the hell for everyone trying to solo, lot worse than it is now

Not impossible, just hard.

But now its plain impossible.

Why? Now they just camp amg and noone can get through.

In agra you could of avoided them.

How do I know? I solo xp'd there...

monty wrote:on uth, there is no underdog, ppl tend to leave one realm to join another as fast as they change underwaer, realm pride seems to be a word most uth players don't have in their dictionary, some of them serve noble causes, they join the realm that needs help, most of them are not so noble, they are like the rats that leave the sinking ship..

I just came back to Hibernia a few weeks ago and actually feel like hibs have realm pride, people coordinate well in /broad and most of the time ppl are just enjoying themselves.. allmost like back in 2002 on live

I could be mistaken, but thats just what i have observed on hib for the last few weeks.

its not impossible, few of my guildies doing solo rvr and having great incs in odins gate and sometimes even in emain (which is less cause of amg stealth zergs usually)

and believe me i know how agramon was in pretty much every perspective so i know what im talking about aswell.

you really think as a hib you could hide ANYWHERE in agramon from people like black adders? or when 6-7 fgs roaming you could trick them by using another milegate ? never ever

Agra and OF setting is the same crap... You have the choice to find 0 enemies or a horsecamper, adding, df or whatever zerg.

NF without Agra would be a lot of better.

P.S.: I saw an OF movie (first relic raid or sth like that in January 2010) on youtube yesterday.
Most of the players dôn´t play Uthgard anymore.

And like Monty said, thanks to the x-realm account sharing and no problem to change realms we got a amazing rate of winning team joiner, who are only concentrated to get their 200+ k lwrps. dont care which realm.

we camp amg very seldom... normaly we roam from atk-cruachon gorge, never staying at one spot longer than a rebuff needs. Like most grps do.

But it might seem as if mids where camping amg, as grps tend to run in different directions, to avoid each other, so often one grps leaves amg the next arrives

and we definatly would stop killing solos, if they would not add in every fight

*pssst* a hint to every solo... if you don't want to be killed by dg any more: just flirt a bit with sohy, she will cry "don't kill him, don't kill him!!!", or use her terrible whistle, in TS 'till we are all deaf.

But this brings responibility... if sohy ever sees you adding on us in a fight again you land on her hate-list... and the list is loong.