Sure, DAoC caters to many different playstyles, ranging from soloers and smallman teams, to large-scale battlegroups consisting of scores of players, even to so-called "trap groups'' of casters who place carefully hidden mines designed to wipe entire armies in the frontiers. realm (RvR), remains mostly unique in the MMO pantheon and provides some of the most compelling, asymmetric PvP in a fantasy setting on the internet.Īnd at the apex of Dark Age of Camelot’s RvR is the 8v8 scene. This team-based conflict, dubbed realm vs. Even if the population has shrunk considerably since its heyday of a dozen servers and thousands of concurrent players, the game consistently fills its large-scale PvP zones with armies of players from each of the three realms: Albion, Midgard, and Hibernia. Launched in 2001, Dark Age of Camelot is one of the oldest MMOs still running.
The premise was simple: what if the players themselves could organize an event where anyone, even the most inexperienced player or dedicated zerger, could join in a properly setup group and learn the ropes from the people who play like this every day? Led by Xuu and Tuneses, another prominent 8v8 player in the DAoC community, some of the most experienced 8v8 players in the game came together in early April 2021 to organize the first draft. Thus the notion of the Ywain 8v8 Roaming Drafts was born. Why wouldn't the best groups fight themselves? And if Leegyn could tell his entire battlegroup to stay away, surely it was within the power of the players themselves to take this a step further to actually promote 8v8 fights? What about an event celebrating the 8v8 playstyle and teaching others its secrets? But from this initial exchange grew the germ of an idea for promoting the 8v8 playstyle from the player community itself. That comment was initially met with a sullen silence. "Maybe your group just needs to fight each other?" someone else offered helpfully. "I'm keeping my BG away from the island." "Don't blame me," Leegen, the Midgard battlegroup leader, replied promptly. "We're looking for a fight but everyone's dodging or zerging." "There's no 8v8 groups out," noted Xuu, a prominent 8v8 player, in the game's official Discord.
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