Why is solo q content longer q than a normal bg when it’s peak hours and season launch. Everyone should be doing the new bg blitz content yet it’s 15-20 min q from 0 cr ? Already half the time I used to wait at 2.4K+ cr. Imagine how long it’s gonna take once reaching 2.4K + this season ? 1-2 hours waiting time ?
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I’m praying that it’s people who are trying to get those handful of conquest and wPVP pieces before jumping into the rated solo BGs. Or were focused on knocking out delves/using their shiny keys.
I know I knocked out the wPVP stuff before jumping into a rated solo BG last night.
Did you guys think that the lack of healers to dps metrics were going to change? The queue times are here to stay from the mere fact that the game has discrepancy on how many dps versus how many healers are required for any given match.
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Not sure it’s as popular as people seem to think.
I actually do see this a lot; people want to feel “full geared” and know what to do with crafting vs buying pieces before committing to a push.
It seems like many people get 15 min for the first game, somewhat shorter for their second, and then super fast 2-5 min queues after that.
They seem to try and match up first-game and post-first-win players together, for the first two games, resulting in higher queue times.
Are you still continuing to experience high queue times after that?
What are queue times? Barely have time to farm 3 nodes before I’m thick in the action, boiii.
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it’s wed morning and people have jobs perhaps
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Yup, just tested this out. On my WW Monk that I have a couple rated BGB games in, it’s Wednesday morning and I still have 5 min queue times (Blizzard estimate). Pretty great!
Oh my Ele Shaman, where it would be the first rated BGB game on that character, it reports 15 min queue time.
right now a lot of players have returned back to school. Summer break is over or back to work. queue times should be faster closer to the holidays ig idk man ggs glhf and all that jazz
More players = longer queues. Try queueing at an off-peak time and your queues will be much faster.
You don’t have a queue time because the game is struggling to find enough players to fill a lobby. You have a queue time because the game is struggling to find enough HEALERS to fill a lobby. So when there’s lots of people playing the game, that means there’s way more DPS sitting ahead of you in queue waiting for healers to fill lobbies.
well yeah because a lot of players our off summer break now at least in NA /shrug
It was only 17 minutes for my first placement game , once you get some rating my Que times went to 2 minutes last night
Part of the problem, where RBGBs is concerned, is the fact that it only awards a piddly 58 Conquest/win (if you win) after the daily bonus. Most people are going to queue once a day, and that’s it.
I’m sure more people will queue rbgb in a couple months after the sit-and-wait meta has fulfilled.
No one is healing. That’s why. I get in to both right away.
The whole community is 30+ year old balding men. No one is “back in school”
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hey man… that’s offensive… I’m not balding
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my first game took like 23 m but after that every q was like under 5 min
type 1 in the chat if youre summer break is over and are either going back to school or back to work
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From what I understand once you get a few games in and your mmr is set queues usually go down for dps, but not by too much. Queue times in wow likely won’t change though, theres a ton of dps queueing compared to healers.
Look at how many dps are complaining about some healers being “immortal” right now. Dps dont realize it I guess but that is what healers really do need, not immortality but good healing and survivability like both disc/pres have now. That is what the devs basically have to do in order to make healing actually fun, if healers just die in 1 cc chain from locks shadowbolting for 1 mil and 2 fury wars bursting over 1.3m dps they will not play the game or they will just q as dps instead. Sitting half of a warrior fear into a blinding sleet>strang>storm bolt combo in a bg with this kind of damage requires healing to be very good with how much damage classes are doing.
Bringing healers up to the level of disc/pres (nerfing pres dam is what they should do, not healing) would be good for the game because healers will actually play, I guarantee you.