Well, its been a hot topic in the ventrilo and on the guild chat from time to time. I managed to find this today on the WHA Forums. Its made by a guy playing a Blorc named Ralph on Burlok. He dueled some folks from Precept. Check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5czFoXTzGY
There are some really interesting things to take note of here. If we assume that all the duels take place between 40vs40 Players. The Black Orc wins them all and only draws between healers. Which isnt that bad as well. He isnt fighting all the classes though. But some points of interest:
Apperantly Ralph is defensivly tanked specced, we dont know specs on the other players.
We dont know stats, gear, and player skills of the players involved.
Even so:
He kills the 2H Sword Master without barely any effort at all
He kills the Sword&Board Swordmaster, ending the fight with full health.
He kills the Witchhunter -even- when the witchhunter gets the drop on him from stealth.
He kills the BW in the end, getting killed in the process.
He´s having a rather amusing fight with the Engineer, but the end result is the same.
The end "scoreboard" basically says it all : Against some classes, its might be expected that a tank comes out on top. But against this many? Against another tank (granted we dont know the mastery for the Swordmasters) the fight is still very uneven.
I dont know, Im not sure this video can be taken as pure evidence that Black Orcs are too good. There are so many factors that one doesnt know. The above mentioned just being a few. Also, he is not fighting any mdps, since well, order doesnt really have a proper one yet (Yes, not counting the broken WL) He might have been defeated by a mdps. Would be interesting to see how the Blorc holds out against an Ironbreaker as well! Its also possible that the Ironbreaker can accomplish the same thing. Not ending with full health though, thats just bollocks in my opinion. Furthermore, I know this isnt supposed to be a game where every career is able to take down someone 1on1. That would just get dull, but the Blorc sure manages to take down alot of careers 1on1.
What do you guys make of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5czFoXTzGY
There are some really interesting things to take note of here. If we assume that all the duels take place between 40vs40 Players. The Black Orc wins them all and only draws between healers. Which isnt that bad as well. He isnt fighting all the classes though. But some points of interest:
Apperantly Ralph is defensivly tanked specced, we dont know specs on the other players.
We dont know stats, gear, and player skills of the players involved.
Even so:
He kills the 2H Sword Master without barely any effort at all
He kills the Sword&Board Swordmaster, ending the fight with full health.
He kills the Witchhunter -even- when the witchhunter gets the drop on him from stealth.
He kills the BW in the end, getting killed in the process.
He´s having a rather amusing fight with the Engineer, but the end result is the same.
The end "scoreboard" basically says it all : Against some classes, its might be expected that a tank comes out on top. But against this many? Against another tank (granted we dont know the mastery for the Swordmasters) the fight is still very uneven.
I dont know, Im not sure this video can be taken as pure evidence that Black Orcs are too good. There are so many factors that one doesnt know. The above mentioned just being a few. Also, he is not fighting any mdps, since well, order doesnt really have a proper one yet (Yes, not counting the broken WL) He might have been defeated by a mdps. Would be interesting to see how the Blorc holds out against an Ironbreaker as well! Its also possible that the Ironbreaker can accomplish the same thing. Not ending with full health though, thats just bollocks in my opinion. Furthermore, I know this isnt supposed to be a game where every career is able to take down someone 1on1. That would just get dull, but the Blorc sure manages to take down alot of careers 1on1.
What do you guys make of it?