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 "Warhammer, 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 u have a better chance to get in a PQ group on Destro.
ORDER CLASSES:
Tanks-- Ours are weak at TANKING
Swordmaster- moderate damage, moderate tanking abilities in Warhammer Gold and Instances. All around a mediocre class based on power
Ironbreaker- Our only class that can tank high lvl instance bosses. Tough on the RvR fields as well, but not as tough as a Black Orc. I can not see how Order can beat an IC seige if we have no class that can tank the boss in IC? Exploits/Hacks not withstanding. I dont play that way.
Healers-- Ours Are great
Warrior Priest--Great great class at solo PvE, Pretty good at RvR since they stay up awhile, can deal low/moderate Warhammer Gold and also do low level heals.
Archmage-- Better than a shaman, but still a weak healer. More of a DPS class, ESPECIALLY since they are on order with our Runepriests and are not forced into healbot mode like a shaman is.
RunePriest-- The Best healer in the game. But weak in PvE. Very slow to level one. They are head and Warhammer Gold above all other classes in heals except Zealots which they moderately beat
DPS-- LOL, this isn't even fair. We are mega Uber in DPS.
Witch Hunter- Incredible burst damage. Can WTFPWN almost any class on Destro
White Lion-- Should be called a weak tank IMO, their dps is good, but not in same class as WH or Warhammer Gold. And they can take a beating somewhat.
Engineer--Need love. The buff to DOTs will help their grenades but right now, as an engineer you wil be EXPECTED to guard the flag in almost every SC that has one. Also, your punt is incredible. You get it at a real real low level, and it is a game changer until other classes get one.
Bright Wizard-- Here is where the BW crybabies come in and call me a troll, or a liar. EVERYONE who plays any class in WAR says BW are insanely OP. (even most BW say that). A Bright wizard is not only OP in mechanics it is bugged. Mythic even stated it in prior messages. The most common bug is the Firecage doesnt break. Basically You cast FC it DOESNT break, it STACKS. You move 2 steps away and unload with your DOTs. They die. You and another BW can basically kill 5 people this way. in a DUO.