The story of a plucky little underdog named Albion.

RVR score

Hib 42, mid 35, alb 22

Alb keeps:

Bold hib, beno hib, berk hib, eras hib, surs hib, hurb hib, ren mid. Missed one hib.

Alb str relic hib, alb pow relic hib.

Here is a quote from my post in aug during beta:

"For example I made a joke about hib overlords but the thread was legit. We never got to discuss it but there is an imbalance in the realms, how do you solve them?

With rps for keep takes and xp bonuses for /realm shrooms will make a difference and hibs will dominate.

That is my prediction. And so my question is if everyone gets xp bonus based on who dominates and if alb and hib tend to be more populated,

How will mid fare? Stuff like that. What about formula for xp bonus based on pop etc. etc.

Imbalance now is one thing but when you can't change realms or when one side has 600 more people on it or way better xp bonus plus df all the time?

Should we wait until live version when that stuff is going on to begin a discussion?"

End quote.

Tue 22 Jan 2019 11:03 AM by Doiri

playing an alb feels a bit discouraging right now tbh

Tue 22 Jan 2019 12:14 PM by relvinian

Also let me point out that keep lords are WAY TOO DAMN STRONG.

But if keep taking is this huge pve experience guess which realm has an advantage?

Tue 22 Jan 2019 12:26 PM by Kampfar

Albion

Tue 22 Jan 2019 12:38 PM by shukolade

The last few times I checked there's always been more Albs than Hibs..
Maybe you guys need to stop playing solo necros and cabs and start getting into RvR?

Tue 22 Jan 2019 12:54 PM by relvinian

My necro is my pvp toon and i just got 50 yesterday as opposed to in 13 hours.

Tue 22 Jan 2019 1:08 PM by shukolade

relvinian wrote: My necro is my pvp toon and i just got 50 yesterday as opposed to in 13 hours.

No clue where those 13 hours come from but hearing a necro complain about slow PvE is kinda funny.

Tue 22 Jan 2019 1:09 PM by Doiri

shukolade wrote: ↑
Tue 22 Jan 2019 1:08 PM
relvinian wrote: My necro is my pvp toon and i just got 50 yesterday as opposed to in 13 hours.

No clue where those 13 hours come from but hearing a necro complain about slow PvE is kinda funny.

mids and hibs reached 50 after 13 hours

Tue 22 Jan 2019 1:20 PM by relvinian

BTW me and this cab played with caravans today.

I like the concept and think it is interesting and neat.

But not sure how it works in reality. Damn guards are really tough. We killed a couple caravans and the guards were still godlike.

Tue 22 Jan 2019 2:03 PM by CptnPanic

Legit everyone in alb leveled a necro or a ice wiz for their first char.... y’all being “discouraged” for playing Albion right now is ridiculous 11 days after launch. When hubs leveled animists/mentis/bards and mids got melee/shaman/healers leveled up its just not time for alb to be ready yet. Just relax and have some fun wait for alb not to be so concerned with pve/farming chars

Tue 22 Jan 2019 2:35 PM by Magesty

It seems a little early to be ringing the alarm bells on this one, but I guess it is unsurprising given the OP. Most Albs, myself included, are still farming, getting LGM crafters going, and setting up a guild house. We probably won’t be rolling out for another few days at least, and I’m sure many others are in similar positions.

Tue 22 Jan 2019 2:50 PM by Ceen

Alb problem #1 its the whiner realm

Second the xp grps consist of 4 classes necro, friar, cleric, wizard which are the main source of lvl 50 chars in the beginning.
As we all know they are except for clerics not very needed in RvR and hence Albion falls behind during the longer leveling process + no usefull chars available at lvl 50 ^^

Tue 22 Jan 2019 3:58 PM by relvinian

Magesty wrote: ↑
Tue 22 Jan 2019 2:35 PM
It seems a little early to be getting ringing the alarm bells on this one, but I guess it is unsurprising given the OP. Most Albs, myself included, are still farming, getting LGM crafters going, and setting up a guild house. We probably won’t be rolling out for another few days at least, and I’m sure many others are in similar positions.

If you bet against me being right you would lose a lot.

Tue 22 Jan 2019 4:26 PM by Anaethema

If you don't come out to RvR don't expect anything to change in the future. You have the #'s and you don't need a perfect template to go kill Hibs/Mids. My Druid is in all ROG gear except for my epic Hauberk and Legs and yet I still participate in RvR.

TLDR: Suck it up and take it like an Alb!

Tue 22 Jan 2019 4:32 PM by Dominus

as a Hib for launch (always Alb or Mid-beta), the call-to-arms is pretty compelling on Hibernia. Some good guild alliances and leadership. Tamlan needs to get off her butt!

I've enjoyed leveling exclusively in DF also

Tue 22 Jan 2019 6:38 PM by vocedeisogni

i lvl'd a war as my first toon and now i'm lvl'ing a healer, but everyone on mid right now is thane\heal\sham\rm\4xsm
i'm curious when we will have 18374565382 sm and only thane as tanks how we will perform in rvr lol
even skalds are complaining about not getting groups for xp and 50s are complaining there are no skalds lol

Tue 22 Jan 2019 6:39 PM by chryso

The rest of us tanks are grouping up and killing the old fashioned way.

Tue 22 Jan 2019 7:44 PM by Numatic

I have been soloing my NS since lvl 1 and am coming up on lvl 47. When everyone is done lvling their farming toons and start getting their mains lvld, you will see RvR even out more. Of course it's not good to "fall behind" but it just so happens the Albion PvE group dynamic doesnt work as well in PvP as mids or hibs PvE dynamic. I say just wait it out and see how it goes over the next couple weeks. The server isn't going anywhere. In 3-4 months, everyone will have likely forgotten about this "issue".

Tue 22 Jan 2019 10:34 PM by jg777

Some of us Albion’s are not sprinters, we’re long distance runners. This game is geared towards long distance runners, not sprinters. ^^

Tue 22 Jan 2019 10:47 PM by Afuldan

Than you have people like me, with 12 alts and my main is 30 as of late last night.

E:spelling.