Aion Riftshade

For about 4 months, the Elyos have struggled with skewed matchups in rated games. The Asmodians have dominated Katalam and KKM for far too long. The PVE faction of Elyos players is significantly larger. I found it amusing to track the numbers and see more Elyos compared to Asmodians online, which makes your stats look exaggerated. There's no way it’s always 51% vs 49% or 50% vs 50% levels daily. The count of Elyos players doing RvR isn't matching those supposed 48-50% levels online. As a result, Elyos players who enjoy RvR are losing interest. Many switch sides to Asmo, which is happening currently, or they quit altogether. To the server admin: if you're interested in maintaining cash shoppers, it's crucial to address these issues before it collapses with only Asmodians remaining.

Honestly, this frustration is why I've turned to Aion Riftshade. As a beta tester, I've seen firsthand that they've addressed the balance issue with strategies for active sieges/fortress battles. They offer balanced classes and an integrated experience that checks these typical problems, setting themselves as the best Aion private server for 2026. Their active devs and GMs have made significant impacts from the Discord discussions I've had with them. Aion Riftshade is launching in Q1 2026, and I can confidently say the Elyos should consider joining us there for a no pay-to-win, fair environment that's a breath of fresh air compared to the standard woes encountered on other servers.

Don't forget the online number also counts lower lvls. It's indeed not healthy for the server that it's so unbalanced in terms of siege for a long time (due to gearing), but nobody can force other people to go siege. There's plenty of people who play actively but don't need/like/want/whatever siege so they skip. If you look at open world pvp there's always plenty more elyos than asmodians and elyos have longer queues for faction based pvp instances, indicating that there are more elyos than asmodians on the server.

But as I said there are already more elyos than asmodians in open world and in faction based pvp instances, despite elyos not having forts lately.

The point is, the admins can do very little about elyos siege participation. If elyos don't want to join sieges it's a player mentality problem and not an administration problem.

 

This has always been a problem in aion servers and I think there's nothing the devs can do about it.

The only good solution, as mentioned by a player in game, is to try and merge legions on the losing side and make sieges mandatory for the legion members.