Why is Role Queue necessary when LFG already exists?

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@Mightypandah-2930

And how could it decrease by ‘a substantial amount’? Back when it released, average queue times were still under a minute in normal queue in my experience. Not much to decrease about that.

Straight from the horse’s mouth.

Quick LFG update

It’s been a week since we introduced our Looking For Group system and it seems like the response has been really great so far. Don’t worry, we have changes and improvements coming in the next patch. In the first week, instances of players grouping in 6-stacks has doubled. The awesome part is, 6 stacks have seen a significant improvement in queue times. But the best part is, none of this has impacted any other group size queue times or solo queue times at all. So it’s been purely a positive in t…

LFG worked when it launched.

@Mightypandah-2930

Someone said earlier in this thread (or another thread?) that queue times for groups in GM take more than 20 minutes currently. Conflicting much?

There’s nothing conflicting. Normal queue times are not impacted by LFG, LFG sorts through other LFG first before dipping into regular queue… and because of this, even at GM with 20 minute queue LFG is still faster than standard queue… and will continue to be until all of LFG’s player pool has stopped using it.