I think everyone here can agree horde queues are slower than alliance queues - and that is a consequence of the reality that the majority of wow players prefer to play horde, it is what it is.
For the sake of the health of the game, could blizzard devs please consider transitioning to the system currently on live where same factions can end up as opponents in battlegrounds? I know #nochanges and all that good stuff but I really don’t enjoy waiting in 1hr queues on my twinks or my 60… the queue sucks at every level and the BG server split already screwed over every single low-level bracket making pvping while you level basically impossible…
plz fix
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No. That removes all incentive to play Alliance, and Alliance deserve healthy pvp servers too. Find another way that doesn’t fix Horde at the expense of Alliance and I’ll support it.
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to both your points - alliance sucks, dont want to play it (already tried), obviously people agree or we would’ve all just rerolled by now
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Actually, for the 20-29 bracket, as Horde, the queue is fine!
But, yeah, personally I’m mostly a #nochanges, as the point there is to be the most Vanilla-like possible, with the fewest changes possible. However, faction vs faction BGs seems like it would be a good idea.
The only downside I could see is for people who specifically rolled Horde or Alliance due to a preference in their queue times. For example, maybe people who work from home, and also want to rank. They may be able to take a break from work every 30 minutes, 1 hour, or 2 hours, whatever the queue times are for the Horde, for example, and since they are only competing for rank against others on their own faction and server, that could be a great way to both work and rank. I mean, that’s sort of an ideal, isn’t it?
I see your point, but if queues were always instant or 1-2 mins you would be able to time it better with when you are done with work and when you want to play, as opposed to being cut off in the middle of something when your queue pops. I actually belong to this category myself and its infuriating waiting up to an hour and a half for a queue, only to have it pop while im in the middle of a call and have to miss it.
My server is roughly 55-45 h/a. But with cross-server battlegrounds we get large queues anyway because of overall population. Unfair.
Wouldn’t be enough by my estimates for reasonable queues. Alliance participate(even on pvp servers) less in pvp than Horde do. To have relatively even queues your server ratio would have to be more like 60/40 in favor of Alliance.
You may find this idea offensive, but I guarantee you that if Horde let Alliance cap… well anything, in your average AV, more people would want to play it and your queue times would drop drastically.
You can analyze that however you like, it’s just cause and effect. I realize everybody likes to think of WoW as Horde vs. Alliance. Indeed, humanity itself has evolved to think “us vs. them”, but in reality it’s a global game community and the current state is a product of the way people are playing.
So Horde can continue to experience ever increasing queue times.
(Note this is only what Horde can do to change the state of the game. There are things Alliance can do also, but that is another topic.)
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Server-lock BGs and still allow paid transfers and suddenly both queue times and server faction-imbalances instantly fix themselves.
Unfortunately, Blizzard went with cross-realm BGs and paid transfers, which only make imbalances worse.
So horde on PvP servers are free to still camp BRM in groups of 10-20+ during peak times, control all the dragon world bosses 95% of the time, control light hopes chapel still on my server on a normal basis, camp ally that are out farming ele’s in felwood or fublong rep, camping ele air farmers in silithus and the list goes on and on and on but the one bonus to being ally is fast ques now you just want them to throw that away because there are so many horde and you want all faster ques on top of still controlling the world? I’ll have some of the silver spoon you’ve been feeding off of for awhile please.
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Did you not read what I said…like, at all?
My post was directed at the OP not you, you would see a “Reply from” next to your name with my picture if it was me replying to you.
You did reply to me, not to the OP. You don’t see the “Reply From” if you reply to someone directly above you.
As long as the zugs keep zuggin your queue times will keep chuggin
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I don’t see it, my bad if I did.
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You can understand my confusion. lol. No worries. It happens.
Such as they are for Alliance? So, that’s always an option.
I can understand that. Sounds like under the current circumstances, you’d be better off as Alliance.
If you (like many others) chose Alliance, because you had anticipated this, or rerolled Alliance, I can imagine not wanting any changes that would affect queue times.
I personally don’t really care what the queue times are on either side, but I do think that consistency is desirable, as people tend to make decisions based on what they have observed and believe will be true in the future.
On this character, I had a lot of fun in the 20-29 bracket, since BG queues were predictably around 2 minutes for AB and WSG. I’ll see what they are like at higher brackets, and if I decide I’d like to get enjoyment out of BGs, and relatively instant (or short) queue times, I may decide to focus on the 20-29 bracket for that, rather than attempting to push rank at level 60.
In Vanilla the numbers were reversed. Blizzard created pretty Blood Elves and Over Powered Seal of Blood to attract people to play horde for TBC. So the fix is to make the alliance have something more attractive. That is about the only change I can get behind.
As you said more people play horde now, how do you give incentives to go alliance.