Did Blizzard get their average wait time technology from the DMV?
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It’s just timewalking
it’s always wrong.
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seriously. I can’t recall one time in recent memory its been correct. I just queue up and go do whatever, and end up forgetting about it
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Is it averaging all wait times? Like tanks, healers and dps? So the queue times for healers and tanks will push the average down.
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I’m convinced they just make up a random number
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So my lvl 70 Ret Pally had some very long wait times.
My lvl 62 (now 64) Arms Warrior hasn’t had to wait more than a couple of minutes.
I wonder if they group up people of similar level, and if that might be part of the problem.
It doesnt appear to be an average between all 3 roles. Whenever I pop on my hpal its always like 63 seconds and is usually pretty accurate. When I am on one of my dps roles it is much higher. I do have to say it is not very accurate for TW qs. Had multiple last night start out at 12 mins and by the time I was in q for 18 minutes the average time was like down to 6 minutes. That one baffled me a bit.
I just want to know who’s the dps that gets the instaqueue that brings the average down. Is it possible that they’re including solo and non-solo? If so, me queueing as healer with a couple DPS will bring their number to a minute, compared to the 20 I waited the other day on my rogue
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Well it isn’t uncommon to get 30-40 minute Queue times. There is a tank and healer shortage. I waited once close to a hour in Q before.
i mean the dmv here isnt that bad anymore.
you draenei deserve itl.
That would be easy to fix but Blizzard refuses to do so.
For Timewalking? 
Do tell… 
Yes there is shortage on tanks and healers. It isn’t uncommon to get a 20-30 minute Q for Timewalking as well.
LFR can be 40-50 minutes. LFD can be about 15-20 minutes.
So ive found that when this happens, the thing is bugged on you. Ive gone up to 58 minutes on a 6 minute estimated timer.
Drop, requeue, and it should fix itself. How and why it bugs is beyond me
I get that there are significantly fewer tanks and healers than DPS, but TW is tuned so easily that most of the time you just end up running after the tank, who does 90% of the work.
Maybe participation has dropped off since they replaced the Heroic Raid gear reward with 454 gear for doing the 5 TW dungeons?
Ever since I started doing M+ on my characters, I see no reason to do TW since the rewards from it are just not worth it.
I feel like this data point should be brought up any time someone makes a thread about adding a queue to M+.
LFR has a much larger need for DPS than tanks (only 2) and healers (4 - 5?); if the queue times are really that long, then imagine the insane queue times for M+ should such a thing exist… 
Draenei deserve the world 
draenei deserves my sneakers to their face. fight me elk.
Some people pay for that
uhm…uhh…what?