[Karinya]

There was an age in this game where camps were respected, believe it or not, it just died with the introduction of ToA. OK, there was some camp disrespect prior, but far less than now.

We used to have 500 high level players and 6-8 viable high level camps. Now we have 1000 high level players and 2-3 viable high level camps (because they're so much better that *all* the old camps are no longer considered "viable").

Increase in the merit caps led more people to spend more time exping at 75, at the same time that introduction of new camps *reduced* the number of camps people actually use. The increase in overcrowding is an obvious result (even though the new camps are actually far harder to overcrowd because of their ultra-short repops).

Thing about merit PTs is many of them just camp and I don't know if that should really be. Seems where BRD and COR are concerned, roaming would be the best, though I do prefer doing two successive pulls if I still can and probably could when there's no competition.
Curious how other people approach this.

I think some people are wary of roaming in an area with such short repops because you might not have moved past where your previous mob spawns before it repops on you. Although with good crowd control that's less of an issue, I guess.

I have seen roaming parties in mire; they don't seem to do particularly better or worse than, say, camping parties at Mamool Ja Staging Point (although I admit I'm not in the habit of clocking exp at every party I go to, so it's mostly just a subjective impression that the party is succeeding or failing).