45 minutes in queue, Ave wait time 5 minutes

Gameplay Dungeons, Raids and Scenarios
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I know they won’t address it because it’s been years but I got nothing else I can do while waiting for the weekly quest so I’ll complain on the forums.

Edit: You win Blizz. After 45 minutes time in queue with an average of under 10 minutes I give up.

Blizz doesn’t share how the queue determine what dps to pic next so all we can do it guess. It would be the decent thing to do to give us some metrics. Average is obviously an oversimplification or an outright lie. If the queue for hunters is 30+ minutes I can switch to another character. The sunk-cost fallacy is a tough while waiting and they could solve this if they cared.

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show us the solution.

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You can roll a tank or healer my guy

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Pay me a programmer’s salary and I can take a look at it. Until then, not my job.

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My suggestion is to stop doing queued content. Make some friends and play with them. No more waiting!

There is a reason why people schedule raids and it’s because you don’t have to search or wait for a group. And when your group gets loot it benefits you as well! It’s win win really.

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Your friends must have been something special, because I have always had to wait around for my friends.

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We got a discord for running dungeons with ~10 people with different sub groups playing on different nights and then we send pings for pick up groups. Send the ping a few mins or hours before you plan to be on to give people time to respond and get on.

It’s like any other social event.

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I’m pretty sure the queue can bug. I’ve had this happen several times over the years and dropping and requeuing has always fixed it.

If anything goes 10 minutes over the average now I will always drop and requeue on principle.

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I mean for TW I don’t see why you shouldn’t be able to have a follower version, or at least pay gold (blizz loves a goldsink) to fund a bounty that tank or heals players online in your cluster can see, incentivize them to queue. If they ran an ingame bounty system, this issue would probably pretty much go away. Would have to be transparent tho.

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Show us your qualifications for the job.

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hey, that gives me an idea.

players in queue get to add gold to a pot and the queues are manual, and all the players get to decide which group to join based on the size of the pot. And at the end they split the gold equally.

But there’s a 20% cut as a fee.

that’d be a true gold sink.

it’s like DKP but with Gold.

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Exit out of the game completely; it worked for me. If you see you’re not on the chat channels and / or wait 10+ minutes, it’s worth a shot.

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Didn’t say I was qualified. But guess what? You don’t have to be a director to criticize a movie. Directors like George Lucas painstakingly fight against that fact but it doesn’t change it.

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you want to be employed and payed without being qualified?

ha!

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Surely the solution is just changing the formula to display the correct average wait time lol.

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what is the correct average formula that they should use?

edit: lol

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the time each person of that spec actually waited in queue/number of players

the issue currently is that the number displayed is all players of that role, even though the algorithm doesn’t treat all specs equally

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so each unique queue would have its own average. people who queue for Arakara, city of threads and the rookery will ONLY see averages from other palyers who queued Arakara, city of threads and the rookery.

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Doesnt seem that difficult to implement to me.

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Making tanking and healing fun again.

Also, delves have pretty much rendered queued Content useless at its current reward cap.