Defense ticks are always a great way to get AP for sure, and big defenses are super fun. I share your opinion in the other thread that siege shouldn't be as out-healable as it is now whether that means that healing should be balanced down or siege damage improved.

As far as Xbox NA Ravenwatch, I do know that I get a bit weary of fighting the same players day in day out without variety. I definitely share your hope that there will be more players coming in and staying. I had hoped that this would happen after Midyear as it did other years but not so much this year. I'm not sure if it was Elden Ring, if it was the no proc or no-cp ruleset, or if the PvP playerbase is just smaller now.

Often when I see you on the opposite side of the field I'm like 'It's OBJ Noob! He's a good guy. He should come red!"

I think I’d agree with it seeming high MMR in Ravenwatch. When I occasionally see familiar Ravenwatch names in a BG or Imp City or CP Cyro I typically know who to play off of (or who to be careful fighting ).

There’s definitely a fair share of stupid drama in Ravenwatch lately though. That’s a bummer. Rumours of people getting DDoS’d, mass reporting players to try and get people banned, all kinds of BS that has nothing to do with why we’re all supposed to be in there which is to play this awesome game and have fun. Ah well. I’ve been in there years before most of the current toxic folks, and I’ll more than likely still be in there well after they either get bored and leave or banned. I’m just there to get some good fights, theorycraft new builds and play styles and stuff and collect AP.

Hmmm I may have to check it out then. Hopefully not all ballgroups

There is more than one guild but the major day to day Ravenwatch players are definitely from a handful of guilds only. I’m not gonna comment on ‘which ball group is ranked better’ because it’s completely irrelevant to me as well as it’s super subjective.

I and the guildies in the small social guild that I’m in go in there to have fun and to have a laugh in our guild chat day to day. I occasionally also muck about solo sometimes, testing out builds and sets and such.

I’m always hoping that there will be more new gamertags though that’ll come in.
It’s way more exciting to fight someone that you have no idea what they’re about to throw at you compared to a guy and his normal cronies you’ve fought 500 times and already have a good idea of the outcome before you even start.

Everyone talks about Ball Groups, but nobody talks about BigMatt's Pirate Brigade. LOL

We're just a bunch of swashbucklers looking for bounty; AP Bounty.

Ya, those were some good fights. Had some good ones tonight as well, but we (red) were outnumbered. Makes it rough at times.

The boosters are annoying. At least they've dropping the campaign. It just makes it hard on the people who can't be in Cyro 8+ hours a day. They are the ones hoping to get their EMP title shortly after the campaign resets only to get boosted passed.

I need to get that ring before they nerf it to the ground.

This campaign has been pretty much a dead campaign / bust balance/population wise at least for the past week. I really hope the upcoming Whitestrakes Mayhem breathes some life into it. I much prefer no cp Cyrodiil.

Tbh I wasn’t expecting both The Nobles and Swag to disappear, and even if Swag disappeared they weren’t the only blues.

Whitestrakes will save us! …. Hopefully.

The population/balance in Ravenwatch Xbox NA is crap right now. Swag and DC’d like disappeared a few campaigns ago. EP is mostly non-existent now, it’s like… Big Matt and MVP, sometimes Ms De, maybe a few random others from time to time vs all of Nobles on AD and when misfits do throw a few guildies together to have a bit of fun and take a few things for some AP, maybe try to get in some small skirmishes we get the super sweaty Oakensoul cheese squads or sweaty comp groups with multiple healers, or if we win a fight then we can pretty much expect AD numbers to exponentially grow immediately after. Blue I don’t really know. They had some people last campaign but so far this one it seems to be some DK sweats, possibly also Oakensoul comp groups or something, not sure.

All of that is all well and good I guess because this is a war and war is not supposed to be fair, but I simply wish there were exponentially more and new people in RW of all colours. I’m sick of fighting against the same gamertags when I do go in there, and there’s very rarely anyone new for any significant length of time. That is probably part of why I’ve mostly sat out the last couple of campaigns. That and non-PvP reasons like making a bunch of new toons on my second account

As much as I don’t mind no proc Cyrodiil, some days I wonder if bringing procs back would stimulate some population growth other than the same old boring names.

Sotha Sil, Bahlokdaan (sp?) and Ravenwatch. It’s had its moments over the years. It’s not always been dead, but does go through cycles.

Yes, EE switched their main campaign. From what I understand on EP it’s literally just the small number of Island of Misfit Toys folks that PvP, with like… Big Matt, Fresh Prince sometimes, Pilipino sometimes…. probably a few others… nothing sweaty and organized, just some decent humans trying to have some laughs and some fun and not take the damn game too seriously.

In the past though, even there was a faction imbalance, if there were no single fights because it was all sweat groups and the other side was zerging I could mess about on my bomber or something, but that’s simply less effective in no proc. It’s tricky to fight multiple people in RW without tower kiting which is probably the most annoying playstyle to me to both play and to fight, even if I know it is technically effective.

Also the cross healing in the game is now so strong since the patch where they gave everyone the extra 1000 base weapon and Spell damage that there’s not always a lot of incentive to defend a keep solo, since it can be very tricky to get even one kill even with oils and cold fire so you can waste a lot of siege just trying to get a D-Tick to give a reason to be there to no avail. I mean I could use the Oakensoul Heavy Attack DK Build if I really wanted to but that’s a one trick pony, gets boring and is about to be obliterated anyway. Maybe the game will give me some D-ticks if I repair a wall segment or two along the way.

I can’t speak for others but I abhor boosting, and I do not participate in AP train stuff that is seen in midyear either. Any AP that I earn is made honestly and it almost all goes to buying items for giving to guildies / for stickerbook.

At the end of the day I’ll adapt though. There’s still a laundry list of eventual build ideas that I have. I’ve been having some occasional fun in BGs too and while I’ve been resisting and being stubborn for years, I suppose I could dip into cp a bit more often.