Elysium PVP Class Demand, Poll + Census Info

[Milarepa 1]

This poll from the Nost reddit has 2024 votes at the moment and gives a good indication of what people want to roll:

http://www.strawpoll.me/11733989/r

 

I thought that this deserves its own topic because committing to a low-demand class in vanilla is pretty painful, and it looks like there are some obvious imbalances already.  For example, the interest in rolling healer classes is very low, especially on horde.

 

It seems like the interest in rolling locks is quite high, especially on horde, and I suspect this is because Nost veterans understand the mount grind and want to avoid it.

 

Also, classes such as rogues and hunters which are typically way overpopulated in vanilla seem to be very low, possibly because of bad experiences with this overpopulation on Nost or other vanilla realms, which is resulting in the opposite extreme.

 

Any thoughts or other relevant data to share?

 

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Finally, from the Nost PVP census thread.

This seems to be the most accurate snapshot I could find, with 10k players online:

 

Sunday 17 January 8:00 pm Server Time :

Total : 10 017 Players Online
5037 Horde / 4980 Alliance
50,2% Horde / 49,8% Alliance

 

 

Total : 2977 Players level 60 Online
Level 60 : 1920 Horde / 1895 Alliance
50,3% Horde / 49,7% Alliance

Level 60:

[Patchi 4]

That's how it was when Nost first launched. Mostly rogues UD mages/locks and warriors running around. It all evened out after a few weeks of people rerolling or new players coming in.

[Emptora 17]

High quality tanks capable of performing BWL mechanics were not rare but they did become a commodity from time to time. Once a guild found their tank(s) they would stick with them. Moreover if you like to raid and tank instances as well, you'll rarely be without things to do. Groups were always found bottlenecks looking for a tank. It seemed a majority of Warriors on Nostalrius were DPS.

 

Quality healers, specifically Paladins, were also in demand in most guilds. As far as DPS, Warlocks were sought out regularly both for community raids and guild progression.

 

Choose a class around this and study it well. Anyone worth their salts would have no problem finding a home in a mid-tier guild or higher.

[Tholren 7]

UD dominating, as expected. As it should be...

[Noxm 1]

i will continue to make census for old PVP and old PVE realm

[Zealotz 0]

Oh boy I can't decide between Sham and Druid

[Mealticket 0]

Can we talk about how consistent the numbers are between the distribution of the server and @60. Not to mention, we had near perfect balance in population.