I'd go as far as removing AP ticks completely, increasing AP for kills by 50% and simply give a +X% AP bonus for kills done while defending or attacking a keep. No more staying at a keep to get the tick, you have to actually (assist in) kill(ing) people now.

The whole idea of ticks just fails in practice. Helping your faction isn't the best way to make AP, and that should be telling enough of how much of an issue that is. Right now: join large siege battles, use sieges or bomb to damage as many people as possible, type /y EVERYONE GO CAPTURE MINE GO GO GO, wait for the D-tick while everyone is away from the keep and profit. Someone who joined a battle at the last second shouldn't be rewarded for just being at the right place at the right moment.

idk wrote: »

As for the AP changes, it is opposite of what Zos has recently done. They have been increasing AP.

Indeed they have. However, the current base value of offense ticks allows players to earn equal or more AP from taking undefended objectives with large amounts of people than actually fighting each other / defending things which leads to keep trading and zergs running over small scale players at resources etc.

idk wrote: »

The rest seems like a stam player wanting mag nerfs and stam buffs.

Not really, just want the large scale battles to be a little more balanced. Magicka users do have a lot more kill potential in large scale fights - some of which is kinda of overkill imo, and even with those proposed tweaks they would still be more efficient than stam in large scale fights. Also keep in mind stamina builds use resto ult / healing thicket to.

kylewwefan wrote: »

None of those changes would make a bit of difference to the horrendous lag encountered by large scale battles

Never said they would Not sure how to fix lag other than doing some major design changes with the map / objectives etc which would take a lot of work.

kylewwefan wrote: »

removing campaigns could make it even worse.

Not really. On PC NA everyone is lock pop on one campaign while the rest are empty to farm telvar in and farm emperor. Taking out those campaigns may condense the population and bring other campaigns to life - perhaps even taking some population off Vivec. Dynamic population cap / scoring or AP rewards would help to but was trying to keep it simple in opening post.

kylewwefan wrote: »

Reduce AP? Are you serious

Only the AP gained from offense ticks which was only added to the game recently during Homestead patch 2.7.

kylewwefan wrote: »

Reduce healing? Come on man your killing me

Not all healing (although it is important to keep healing under control for balance reasons especially in CP to avoid never ending fights.) The resto ult can be very powerful in small scale and the warden tree ultimate can do a very high value of healing for it's cost. I'm not sure what exact changes should be made to them but zos should be at least looking at them and aware of how well they are currently performing in certain situations and on certain builds.

kylewwefan wrote: »

No idea what earthgore is

It's only the most overpowered set ever brought into the game... lol

Checkmath wrote: »

How about decrease overall aoe damage in cyrodiil by 10%?

Blanket balance changes won't change anything. Burst ultimates need to be balanced against damage over time ultiamtes, ground ultimates need to be balanced with PBAoE, Stamina ultimates need to be balanced against magicka ultimates, AoE abilities need to be balanced vs AoE proc sets. etc.

Kilandros wrote: »

I'd actually like to see both morphs of Destro Ult become stationary (high damage, short duration for big ticks) and see class ults (Veil, Standard, Nova) (not Negate, sorry Sorcs) become mobile with a duration increase (high damage, long duration for small ticks.

The mobility of Destro ult paired with the damage is literally killing PvP. Ults that tick that hard should be stationary, and ults that do not tick nearly as hard because they are longer duration and provide utility should be mobile to incentivize use.

I agree that a lot of the ultimate's in the game need re-balancing in PvP. Would be quite a task for zos to do something like that though so I was trying to keep it simple in opening post. PvP meta is really stale. Things need to be mixed up a bit with more build diversity.