125552-im-hesitant-to-join-dominion

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(made a post about coming back to game earlier today)
 
I'd like to join Dominion since I did Exiles last time around.
 
But now I see a few posts on how the population is "Grossly" shifted to Exiles. I made a character and in the starting zone there's only 2 other people. this scares me.
 
Am I going to see insane queue times for dungeons at 50? Am I even going to see a single wayward player as I re-level? Will my finder even pop while I'm pre-50? Are population issues this dramatic? How is the game going to survive if one faction doesn't even exist.
 
What does Dominion need most? Healers, DPS, Tanks?
 
I know Dominion needs players, but is this exaggerated or am I walking myself into a ghost town? I'd rather not gimp myself from the get-go.
 
Info plz?	
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Yeah there are more Exile than Dominion in general, but that doesn't mean the Dommies have no population.
 
Dommies have an active PvP and PvE presence. They're very active in the game, almost exclusively claiming World Firsts and top players and are very active when it comes to Theory crafting and working the economy.
 
Really, for goodness sake, pick the faction you -like-. You'll be fine where ever you are.	
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There are plenty of players in both factions. Forums peeps are widely known for exaggeration, so I would take pretty much anything you read on any forums anywhere with a grain (or 10) of salt.
 
Play what you like. Find fun peeps to play with (if you like to do group content). Profit!	
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    "Come to the Darkside.....yes......let the hate flow through you"
 
 
Oh, sorry. Wrong game.
 
 
     I play both and there are plenty of Dommies around.  As far as ques poping the best thing to do on either side is to join a guild and get a freinds list populated.  There are far more instances formed within guilds than are with just the LFG tool.	
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			Didn't you learn from DK? It's good to be bad  ;)	
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Thanks for the replies,
 
Still would like to know which role is most underplayed (tank, dps, or healer),	
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Thanks for the replies,
 
Still would like to know which role is most underplayed (tank, dps, or healer),
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On Entity it seems like healers are the hardest to come by. Then tanks. DPS are everywhere as always.
 
I've got 2 50s on Dominion but I'm playing Exile right now. My brother is on Dominion side as well.
 
Dominion SEEMS empty a lot of the time but I think some of that has to do with how wide open Ilium is.	
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The population difference exists but is smaller than most think. As previously mentioned, this is possibly due to the layout of Illium which spreads out players more so it looks less busy. Then there is a snowball effect of players joining the Exile due to conversations similar to this one. :P
 
In other words:	
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			Join the Dominion so you don't have to see Aurin running around everywhere. Bleeeeeeegh.	
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Join the Dominion so you don't have to see Aurin running around everywhere. Bleeeeeeegh.
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			I don't have any characters on Exile so I don't know what the difference really is, but I see a good amount of people in Illium even during off hours (Entity server, no Idea about the other ones.. It's not great comparative to other mmos but meh. If you really need to get some group content done there is always people looking in the EntityLFM channel so just join that and you're good, so I say dominion all the way.	
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			With luck the 3 million who just quit WOW are looking this way, and the dommie scum smell like Horde.......so you never know :)	
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With luck the 3 million who just quit WOW are looking this way, and the dommie scum smell like Horde.......so you never know :)
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Dominion needs espers BAD.
 
My guild has no raiding espers.  They all went to play aurin and I don't blame them.  I plan to do the same thing.  :)	
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			Strongly advise TS against joining our glorious empire, the Dominion is not a shelter for the "hesitant", weak and otherwise whiny subjects. Best stick to the fluffy-tailed squirrel-huggers and stone-faced alcoholics :D	
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Strongly advise TS against joining our glorious empire, the Dominion is not a shelter for the "hesitant", weak and otherwise whiny subjects. Best stick to the fluffy-tailed squirrel-huggers and stone-faced alcoholics :D
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the dommie scum smell like Horde......
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The population difference exists but is smaller than most think. As previously mentioned, this is possibly due to the layout of Illium which spreads out players more so it looks less busy. Then there is a snowball effect of players joining the Exile due to conversations similar to this one. :P
 
In other words:
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Prove it! Or this is just propaganda! ;)
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You think noone like chua?
 
 
B...b...but I promise... not all chua do science on exiles
 
 
Please come play with chua on dominion :'c
 	
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			Play the faction you want, the class you want, and the race you want. Everything else will even itself out over time :P	
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			Hesitant, why....grow some cajones and get on Dominion!!!  :P	
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I could convince you why to go Dominion, or I could convince you why you shouldn't go Exile. 
 
You should go Dominion because we do not have teenage school girls as a playable race (Aurin).
 
You shouldn't join the Exiles because they have teenage school girls as a playable race (Aurin).
 
You could say both are the same, but frankly, that's my 2nd reason for going Dominion. First being Malvolio Portus, he is just amazing!	
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You think noone like chua?
 
 
B...b...but I promise... not all chua do science on exiles
 
 
Please come play with chua on dominion :'c
 
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I'd love to play a Draken esper...
or a mechari slinger....
or a Chua warrior...
 
Honestly just play what YOU  want to play. At first I went for the "whats least likely to be played" or "what do people need most" kinda thing...but I just stopped caring and made a character I wanted to and have been much happier personally. I WOULD be a dominion if i could play the race and class combo i wanted, but I can't...so...	
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The moment I saw the video about how Chua's came to be.. I knew I was destined to be a dominion. Dominion is fun. Being Evil and dominating is fun.
Being Crazy evil is even more fun. Join dominion.. And help TheBluemeanie slaughter EXiles.
You know you want to. :)	
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Dominion for life! Don't believe the Exile propaganda. Despite what many people think the Dominion is NOT evil. We also have Chua. I don't play one myself but I think they're great.
 
Do your part in reducing the Aurin population by killing them on sight and not rolling one!	
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			Bottom line, do you want to get blown up by a chua, or do you NOT want to get blown up by a chua?	
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			All I know is that I saw bacon in one of those chua pics.....that's reason enough to join the dominion.	
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Bottom line, do you want to get blown up by a chua, or do you NOT want to get blown up by a chua?
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All I know is that I saw bacon in one of those chua pics.....that's reason enough to join the dominion.
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I know! I was like... "Is that Bacon and Eggs?"   :huh:
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I'd eat a Chua...just sayin'...
Chua n' Chips	
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So is this right?  
 
Exiles -- more populated; better PVE queues; more likely to lose in PBGs
Dominion -- less populated, longer PVE queues (maybe mitigated by playing healer), more likely to win PBGs (premades/geared PVPers who PVP often)
 
Does that sum it up?  I am having a tough time deciding, because I want to do both.  And sounds like I'd face frustrating queues (as Dommie) or frustrating BG losses (as Exile).  What to do... what to do?	
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I'd love to play a Draken esper...
or a mechari slinger....
or a Chua warrior...
 
Honestly just play what YOU  want to play. At first I went for the "whats least likely to be played" or "what do people need most" kinda thing...but I just stopped caring and made a character I wanted to and have been much happier personally. I WOULD be a dominion if i could play the race and class combo i wanted, but I can't...so...
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Stiiiiill waiting on those Chua Stalkers and Chua Warriors CRB...
 
I know that the reason we didnt get all classes for all races at launch was due to not enough time to do all the animations.  But i think at this point i would be happy with a Chua Stalker/Warrior just walking around in a T-pose.	
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