Aion Riftshade

When you open new accounts for Atreia tomorrow you should lock it to allow only for Elyos chars, the faction balance at the moment is like 2:1 for asmos.

imo that seems like a stretch but I wouldn't be surprised if they did lock asmo

What I will express here, will by only my personal opinion and not any official statement.

The ration 2:1, if it were true, would constitute the first time in all of Aion's history to have a server with such an imbalance towards Asmodians. Hence, I find this to be a very wild claim, especially since no further information to support the claim is provided. In the past, Asmodian majorities were rare and only very small. To my knowledge, investigations by both developer and publisher have shown that the biggest reasons for choosing a faction are:

1. Faction of your friends
2. Aesthetics

Unless tendencies in the general populations have shifted dramatically, most people are probably still going to prefer the aesthetics of Elyos, as they have been for over a decade.

By locking one faction, you prevent people from picking their prefered aesthetics and you might prevent them from playing with their friends. Therefore, such a lock should provide a good of at least equal worth to this player freedom.

LFG and Group Finding:
Although I haven't kept records, I believe the LFG section for both factions are lively. There are people searching for groups to do campaign or leveling instances. There are always people searching for all LV 50 instances, Dredgions, as well as PvP on various maps.

Rifting and Open World:
It might appear as if the enemy faction had a huge majority if numerous groups of them find their way onto maps of the enemy faction. To my knowledge, this is an issue for both factions. From an Asmodian point of view, you virtually never have 10 minutes of peace in the sky above Beluslan Fortress because rifting players can be found there around the clock. You may push them away once, but they or perhaps others typically return within 10 to 15 minutes. The areas for gathering aether are heavily ganked and I also died dozens of times while leveling my second character to Elyos who had no qualms attacking me on sight.

The issue here is, that a 1:1 ration would not prevent these events. The number of players on opposite faction maps are limited by the number of rifts. Therefore, the frequency of Rift spawns is something to look at.

As far as movements in the Abyss are concerned, there are again heavily ganked places by both factions such as the entrance to the core. It is also not rare for me to teleport to an upper Abyss Fortress, only to find groups of Elyos farming the fortress guards inside and me having to flee imediately. I am not under any impression, that the Asmodians are serverely dominant in the Abyss suppressing Elyos movements.

Sieges:
The Asmodians on Atreia have won more often than they lost at sieges lately. As a player, who fought in all of these sieges, I must say that none of them were a crushing victory. There was a decent amount of back and forth. Furthermore, there are no incentives to defend a fortress. No instance access is locked behind fortress ownership either. Historically speaking, even in times when there was a clear confirmation of a large Elyos majority, there would sometimes be a month or two of Asmodian victories. If we were to consider the speed at which both factions kill the Fortress Guardian (Dux) of the enemy at the beginning of KKM-sieges, then the Elyos typically finish (slightly) faster, which would rather indicate them having (slightly) more people than the Asmodians.

In summary, I question the claim of servere imbalance in favour of the Asmodians as well as how effective a faction lock would solve any of the issues above, if they are any to you to begin with.

If you meant "So many Asmos Ely can't get divine" it's not rly a numbers problem

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The ration 2:1, if it were true, would constitute the first time in all of Aion's

Yeah that's a wild exaggeration (assumed it's taken that way), but it does feel like that. Indratu area is perma camped with asmos, KKM/Divine dominated by asmos, shugo artifact for DP at the core camped by asmos everytime I go, so idk. It would be nice to see some actual numbers directly from GF.

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KKM/Divine dominated by asmos

they have a lead in siege. we don't.

This has nothing to do with numbers. Elyos are still more than asmos. Even in sieges. We just have no leadership and we do not set a faction goal of doing good in sieges. Every major legion just looks after its own interest and even within legions people dont join alliances for sieges but rather go alone or in small groups because of more rewards.

As for camping, obviously Heiron will be camped more - mobs in belu are elite and can't be farmed as effectively as on heiron. If this gets fixed you will see way less asmos near DC entrance/farm spot.

Core is normal to be camped more by asmos as well. They have a giant ass fort they can retreat to so its easier to pvp for them. And lots of high rank elyos go there to farm guards so its a field day for asmos. Even with that being said I often see elyos dominating core pvp/dp entrance as well..

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Yeah but you'll see if we get divine we will do the same to asmos.

So can some Elyos legion leaders grow a pair and get rid of their ego for one evening and frakin work together?

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Oh, 5 asmos and a spirit near an Asmo fort. That's not balanced!

Jokes aside, these screenshots mean nothing. I don't have numbers, but I believe Elyos outnumber Asmos; and if not, the gap is not that noticeable. It's just that Asmos play better during sieges.