Quick backstory here you can skip the next paragraph if you could care less but still wanna answer 
Ever since I started in TBC I have played tanks 90% of the time or more, at that time my sister played Rogue and my brother in law healed so we could find two dps in trade chat for our dungeons. This continued through other expansions and once the group finder was added I also could get instant groups even when online alone. Now that I don’t have any IRL friends/family who play and with delves giving decent gear a lot of my alts will only be dps spec.
So I guess my question is for those characters I want to gear solely through delves and queueable content like LFG/LFR how do you guys fill the time? Do you just do world quests, farm old transmogs and mounts, play the Auction House, maybe you tab out and watch a movie waiting to hear the siren when it’s time? Anything else I am missing, any “secrets,” to make that time seem easier even if it’s 20-30 minutes.
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I dont queue for dungeons or raids. That content doesnt even require my keyboard or monitor to be plugged in to complete at a high level
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Fish, Herb, Mine, Rares, WQ etc or I’ll tab out to the forums or watch TV waiting for the sound.
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I don’t do anything because queues pop prettty quickly for tanks.
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If I have to wait, usually I am in Valdrakken (or one of the main hubs) working on professions. Its fun to look at other peoples guild names too when I’m just waiting, some people have pretty creative names
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This is one reason I have played my Rogue less over the years, in favor of my Druid and Pally.
Those pure DPS queues are insane.
What ever I am doing, I am doing it wrong. When I queue for LFR on my Rogue or Warlock, I could be staring at my screen for 20 minutes, but if I look at my phone for a half a minute, I missed the queue pop… or if I get up to use the restroom, or grab a glass of water…. that’s when the queue pops.
Playing a Class that can heal or tank for queued content just saves time.
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Weekly quests, world quests, gather mats, check or relist AH sales.
There’s not much queued content though, I’ve been queuing LFR for bullions but without those in TWW I don’t think there will be anything to queue for after the first week or two.
You also mentioned delves, there’s no queue for those you just walk in whenever you want or have to manually form a group if you don’t want to solo them.
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Nah not a lot to queue on for my “mains,” but my really alty alts like my Warlock or Mage I generally do heroics dungeons for them. I’ll do an occasional key but not many. When I play them I want to get on and off, hit up a heroic for a low vault slot and right back off.
I don’t really have a queue-time routine. I may watch a video, I might go over my gear and check enchants/gems, I could read an article or tweet something dumb.
Lots of options.
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I typically slap on a podcast or something and grind out quests for rep, money, etc.
Sometimes I work on skills. Sometimes I will try to piece together a new transmog. Sometimes, I just sit and chat with people in my guild.
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I am tank so I have very little downtime.
But what you should do is. Make sure to complete al your world quests.
If you have gathering professions. Make sure to level them up.
What you want to do is. If your time is 15 min make sure to capitalize on that either by gaining levels in professions, completing quests or world quests.
Mog you can do anytime.
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Not really an obscure tip but be sure to q up for all of them at once.
If one pops early, that is going to be an incomplete run, remember to re-queue (unless somebody bailed during trash, that does happen and still counts as an incomplete run). Timers continue going while you’re already in a dungeon/raid, so once they start to pop they all will back-to-back.
If you don’t need anything in particular from the skipped bosses then just clean up the queues and finish what you get into.
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