That's just Cyrodil performance as of late.

I think there has always been a misunderstanding on performance during Mayhem events. I don't think anything Zos is doing actually improves server performance in any meaningful way. I don't think they are adding more resources to it and opening more campaigns only works to funnel overfill from the main campaign, which has zero impact on the player filled campaign, as the main campaign is still pop locked and isn't losing players to the newer campaigns.

A few things are actually happening in the main campaigns that often lead to an impression of improvement:
- AP zerg trains are running large groups of people around the map, usually away from major choke points, for fast, easy AP. So players in typical offensive and defense skirmishes are away from those fights, and are removed from the majority of the lag and performance issues. However, whereever that AP train is, will always be a lag fest, and even more so when two or even 3 alliance AP trains collide. It's a mess. But, when you are up defending Arrius with a group a 12 against another group of 12, its not so bad.
- Players join the main campaign to do out of the way quests for boxes and tickets. This shuffles the population of the server from actual performance diminishing PVP activities into more PVE oriented ones. The more players who do this, which often tends to happen in times when the queue to join the server is lower, the better performance for the server.

So yeah, while the zerg is on the opposite of the map, or people are running more quests than participating in larger scale battles, the performance appears to be better. But if you are in the mix of those larger scale battles, performance during any MYM event has always been awful. Always, every single time the event has been run. My personal favorite was a BRK defense a few years ago where all three alliances were fighting it out and periodically throughout the 30-40 minute siege, all three sides had players DC randomly. I think I crashed twice, but managed to get back in before the defensive tick finally hit, was somewhere near 80K AP. It was crazy, but performance was on par with how the event has always been.

My experience in Imperial City was actually pretty good. Very little lag, no freezes or hangs. Even in large groups.

Using NA servers. For about 2 hours. And that is the only Mayhem experience I have had so far...let's see how the rest progresses.

Just my $0.02

I popped into Grey Host in PC NA this morning around 9am Central, and headed to an average keep fight, perhaps 30 players total. However, lag was at the level of a prime time faction stack keep fight. It was ridiculous. I logged out 5 minutes later and switched back to an off campaign. This is why I usually only play off campaigns during MYM, but I assumed GH at 9am would be fine. Silly me.

I'm going to be honest here, I only play in Cyrodiil on Stadia, and I do not experience performance issues even when in ball groups sieging. I have fiber optic internet with symmetrical speeds if it matters.

Ravenwatch has been nearly unplayable.

Ravenwatch PC NA performance was pretty good even when we locked for all three factions. And we played prime time every night of the event.

Aside from Templars being unable to Mount because they are stuck in combat but that’s every night of the year.

It also felt 'emptier' than other events. Like there was less overall players...

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It also felt 'emptier' than other events. Like there was less overall players...

Yup, there was a queue only in the first couple of days, at least on DC PCNA, in previous events I remember getting a queue for most of the event. As for performance, in all days my game crashed at least once (game froze->got kicked to the log in screen), and in on one day it crashed on 6 different occassions. Besides the crashes, it was very laggy, even when populations in one area weren't very big--in the past the lag would start when a lot more players were around.