The elves will be the most popular, followed closely by the dwarves, and then greenskins. :3

Originally posted by AngeluxMedia
 

If for nothing else than comic releif, the Goblin Shaman and Squig Herder should be the most popular of the Greenskins.

Hah, indeed.  That's why I want to play a Goblin SH.

Originally posted by AngeluxMedia

Originally posted by SoulSurfer

Play what YOU want to play, who gives a damn about other people.  Fact is, both sides will have good players, you just have to filter out a bunch, and find a group of skilled players you can guild with.

 

Aye

Originally posted by colep53

Just wondering what you guys think. Especially those who play the workshop game. What race and which side do you think people will be most attracted to . And people coming from wow are you horde or alliance and which way are u going?

 

I play Horde on WoW, but I mostly RP soooooo...

Anyway I will be going High Elf Shadow Warrior. Partially because of the Legolawlz feel, partially because I want to hide and destroy the destruction from far away =]. I always loved MM hunters.

my money is on...

high elves, greenskins, chaos, empire.

i think the dark elves and dwarfs (definately the dwarfs) will be the least played (much like their tabletop counterparts)

Originally posted by Moogleboy13

Originally posted by Tawn47

Originally posted by klapdoor

I think the argument of 'good' vs 'bad' is not entirely valid. The one thing that Horde did not have at release was a race that people could somewhat identify with, which caused the initial imbalance. So mostly this comes down to the 'pretty race' argument. And lastly; a lot of WoW players (not necessarily good players) now equate the 'bad' side in a game with the winning side.

 

So we have a situation where all the 'mature' gamers are going Dest. to avoid the kids and all the kids are likely to be attracted there too.

Come on, isnt it obvious that female sorceresses and witch elves are going to be popular with teenagers?

Man, I hope you're wrong with the thought that most mature players are going destruction.  Not that I have a problem with the races and classes, I'm just more "Chaotic Good/neutral" than "Chaotic Evil".  But alas, you're probably right and I'd be stuck with the immature kitties on Order.  Meh, if that happens I'll just have to roll a Choppa or Sorceress...

Still, I'd prefer to stay Shadow Warrior... Not for the Legolas wannabe factor, but for the striking - from - the  -distant - shadows - before - getting - dead factor. 

I hope I am wrong too..  I think in the end things will balance out.  Especially if we stop assuming that the alliance/horde mentality will apply to this game.

Originally posted by Tawn47

Originally posted by Moogleboy13

Originally posted by Tawn47

Originally posted by klapdoor

I think the argument of 'good' vs 'bad' is not entirely valid. The one thing that Horde did not have at release was a race that people could somewhat identify with, which caused the initial imbalance. So mostly this comes down to the 'pretty race' argument. And lastly; a lot of WoW players (not necessarily good players) now equate the 'bad' side in a game with the winning side.

 

So we have a situation where all the 'mature' gamers are going Dest. to avoid the kids and all the kids are likely to be attracted there too.

Come on, isnt it obvious that female sorceresses and witch elves are going to be popular with teenagers?

Man, I hope you're wrong with the thought that most mature players are going destruction.  Not that I have a problem with the races and classes, I'm just more "Chaotic Good/neutral" than "Chaotic Evil".  But alas, you're probably right and I'd be stuck with the immature kitties on Order.  Meh, if that happens I'll just have to roll a Choppa or Sorceress...

Still, I'd prefer to stay Shadow Warrior... Not for the Legolas wannabe factor, but for the striking - from - the  -distant - shadows - before - getting - dead factor. 

 

I hope I am wrong too..  I think in the end things will balance out.  Especially if we stop assuming that the alliance/horde mentality will apply to this game.

Hopefully that will die out in time... But I don't think anytime before launch.  After all it doesn't seem like a lot of people out there can resist comparing MMO's to WoW now... >_>

I Believe I read somehwere that War as far as balancing sides (order and destruction) that they are taking the issue seriously to help improve the quality of the game and balance of both sides.

Here are my picks and are just my opinions

1. Greenskins

2 High Elves

3 Chaos

4 Empire - close tie with 3rd

5 Dwarfs

6 Dark Elves

I believe that at first it would go to Dest. b/c people tend to think that the more evil people would be stronger in pvp. later on though, the more mature players would probably roll Order to get away from the kids who went to Dest.

Thats why Im rolling order so I can power lvl the newcomers so they can RvR faster.

dark elves ftw!

Well i do not know the warhammer - world, and i dont think that they will alow the classes to get there normal powers from, the board game, so i havend used moat time reading about this.

But I may play:
Chosen,Disciples of Khaine or Shadow Warriors.

Ive almost given up on trying to predict what the balance will be like in WAR.

Ill admit it now so that I can beg forgiveness... I play WoW, sorry I know it hurts to hear, but atm its the only MMO that has kept me coming back for more, even if its MORE boredom.

I play my main which is a Dorf hunter, and I used to consider myself a "pvper". But I dont bother no more as the only BGs Alliance can win regulary is AV, proberly cos its more PvE based of a BG.

So like every other Alliance player planning to play WAR we are looking to go, where the kids aint!  So I constantly read all the pols and the peoples opinions on whats gonna happen and decided that you wont be able to tell whats going on till too late.

So my plans for WAR atm?  Im looking at 2 classes, Dorf Engy and Squig Herder. im leaning towards the Engy, but my uneasiness still remembers my Alliance char.

Just gotta hope theres a balance of the clever players.

Just had a thought after I presed post.

alot of people tend to post that:

High Elf will be more popular then Dark

and Empire will be close to Chaos

and Green with be more pop then Dorf

Hopefully with that guess, you will proberly get more balance than the Alliance will be more popular then Horde, when you mix the 3.

Well here's one way we can judge who many people in these forums are going toward which side...

I have no idea if this concept/idea/whatever has been posted before, but my dad is yelling at me and I don't feel like reading through all the pages :P

All of the pre-release polls come from the rather 'hardcore' group of players. Members of pre-release guilds (in most of my experiences with them at least) are not the typical makeup of the launch day crowd. Remember the race/faction polls for WoW? How the Horde outclassed the Alliance in almost every poll? Look at the population balance now.

I think Order (High Elves or the Empire, it's a toss-up between the two) will prevail as the most popular Faction/Race combination, but it'll be comprimised of more casual players (like myself when I played WOW). Destruction is going to be us hardcore types!

I hope.

Ive been looking at all the classes and races and i think i'm going to be a high elf white lion. Lets say the dark elves to dominate 2:1 we probaly will get owned most times but i won't change its war after all (although its fun and has elves...) . I enjoy a challenge and the only thing from stopping me being a high elf is my friends and what they are going to be or if they are completly boring and in open beta the choas armour is litrally omgbbq that looks so cool.

dude, dark elves rule

Originally posted by Pheace

Originally posted by gorguk

way i understand it, they are going to balace the two sides so one cant get a huge amount of higher population than the other. but anyways as long as the classes are well balanced it probably wont matter an get pretty even.

 

Nah, they're just going to try and keep sides balanced at certain times etc. So one side can still heavily overpopulate. It's just that eventually you might not be able to log in when there's too many people of your side already on.

 

Yay crowd control

IMHO if they have to resort to this ... its there fault for not making order as appealing to play as destruction.

Originally posted by zythen

Originally posted by Pheace

Originally posted by gorguk

way i understand it, they are going to balace the two sides so one cant get a huge amount of higher population than the other. but anyways as long as the classes are well balanced it probably wont matter an get pretty even.

 

Nah, they're just going to try and keep sides balanced at certain times etc. So one side can still heavily overpopulate. It's just that eventually you might not be able to log in when there's too many people of your side already on.

 

Yay crowd control

 

IMHO if they have to resort to this ... its there fault for not making order as appealing to play as destruction.

not their fault that order doesnt have tzeenth to bestow his great gifts of chaos

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Originally posted by star.buck
Remember the race/faction polls for WoW? How the Horde outclassed the Alliance in almost every poll? Look at the population balance now.

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Where is this info coming from? I don't remember Horde outnumbering the Alliance in any pre-release polls for WoW, and a poster named Bijyu at Warhammer Alliance backed it up:

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Originally posted by Bijyu
Truth is that was NEVER the case. As someone who was in the beta tri horde push i can officially say that never once was there any hint to horde outnumbering alliance. In fact on both the main servers and the later added stress test server alliance had horde outnumbered. But ill just keep laughing when i read these threads because no matter what i say people will still say that to counter the balance concerns.

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It sounds to me like people just read once that Horde outnumbered Alliance pre-release and have now run with it in defense of their prediction of WARs population balance.