This post will be long, feel free not to read. If you don't read, either through ability or choice, please do not comment on it.

I will offer my impressions of GAMEPLAY from both sides ( Warhammer Gold and Destro). This is EXACTLY as the game appears as of Nov. 25th. It will/should change in the future.

Hope this helps people make choices for Warhammer Gold and Leveling.

I have a 40 shaman (my first character)
I have a 40 bright wizard (my third char)
I have about 7 characters over lvl 20 (Engineer, White Lion, Marauder, WE etc....)
I have 200 in Apoth, Talsiman, Scavenging, Salvaging, Cultivating, Butchering.

I DO NOT play as much as u might think.

ORDER: In general, Order has less players on their side, This has been the case since Closed beta (as I read), and open Warhammer Gold. All of the Pre-Release surveys showed a 65-35 ratio of Destro to Order. I think that this number might be even greater on some servers. On my Destro server we outnumber approximately 2.5:1, and my order server it is 2:1 easily.

What does this mean? It means that in Open RvR (ORvR) we tend to get rolled. When Destro wants a Keep they take it, at will basically. When we muster a force to protect one, they split into 2-3 groups and take a different one. It is common on both servers I play on, so I assume it is common on all servers. And based on forum threads my assumption is most likely true. Now, is it a bad thing that Destro has all the keeps? Not if u are order it isn't. See, as an order character u can log in at noon, 2 PM, 6PM, 3 AM etc. and hit your guild up "Hey guys, who wants to take a keep?" you then get a party of about 12-20 (very very easy to do, especially with alliances) and group up at a WC. You then zerg the keep and steal it. Instant Gold bag for 3 of you.

In General Order has more powerful characters, Probably on a scale of 1.3:1 Maybe more. A BW is easily more powerful on a scale of 2:1 then any Destro class except Black Orc. What does this power imbalance do? It enables us to WIN most scenarios consistently. Sure you can lose if all your team is lvl 30, and they are all lvl 40. Or if you have no healers and they have 5. Or you have no BW etc.... BUT for the most part you will win FAR more Scenarios then Destro.

Destro: In general, Destro has cooler classes that people love. Chosen, WE, Shaman (until they play them) etc. Mythic was absolutely terrible Pre-Release with all their promotions. Almost every single PAULPODCAST had him spewing love to Destro. That is cool, I love it too, but it skewed the population to roll Destro. In Closed beta, and Open Beta, DESTRUCTION annihilated Order 95% of the time in everything. this had to change, so Destro was nerfed. Heavily.

As a destro character you can be reasonably sure that when u are taking a keep you will win, when u need people to run your lvl 20s or 30s or 40 dungeons you can find them. When you need a tank you can get it, a DPS as well. Healers are a little harder to come by. It has a negative problem as well though. When you log in, a typical chant is 'Hey does anyone know where we can go to get some Objectives or Keeps?" and the reply from guild or alliance is "Of course not, we already own them all." A sceond problem is Scenarios. It is bad enough we lose many of them, but in addition it is longer for you to queue. For simple math lets say 15 people are queueing in order, and 35 in Destro. Well the first 12 on order get in, and first 12 on destro. Then next queue, 9 of that first 12 order are in with the 3 who didnt make it, but a whole diff group on destro. The first 12 destro are now waiting in queue. Order keeps playing over and over, and destro has to wait.

During this time Destro is either standing around or questing. This means more destro are doing PQs at any given time then ORDER and Warhammer Gold have a better chance to get in a PQ group on Destro.