BG AT MAX LEVEL
I want to share something that’s been bothering me for a long time in WoW. I just don’t see any logic in how long it takes for a BG to start. The queue times make no sense at all, and I believe it’s because of the way Blizzard matches teams—because I can’t think of any other explanation.
Retail WoW has over 100k players (probably more, but I don’t know the exact numbers), yet it takes more than 10 minutes to get into a BG, even with mercenary mode active. That makes zero sense. Meanwhile, if you log into a private PvE server, the same BG queue barely lasts 10 seconds. Sometimes the private server has only 100 players, and it still pops way faster.
BG queue should be changed.
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In my experience, as horde, BG queues are usually between instant and 3min.
Could be the time you’re queueing though. I’ve definitely had the occasional early morning 15min queue.
The little bit of queueing I’ve done as alliance has definitely had longer queues. That’s the price of meta racials I guess.
What kind of battlegrounds are you queuing for, and at what time of day?
There’s a lot more that goes into it than retail wow having 100k players so BGs should pop. The majority of those players PvE primarily. The remainder don’t all do BGs, there are a lot of arena junkies who rarely step into bgs. After you eliminate the vast majority of players who rarely or never BG it’s also split between epic and randoms, blitz and brawls - all of which need to fill. On top of that there is a large faction population imbalance. There are also in-progress games that have players in them as well as not all players are logged on at the same time every day - there are a lot of different time zones involved
I have no experience with private servers but if there is a population of 100 people that will severely limit the content that there will physically be enough players to fill, it would likely bottleneck everyone into a few specific activities
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A lot of reasons I think. Late in the season, less interest because of pre-mades, bad balancing, blizzard not communicating about pvp. The community is shrinking from what I have seen. Hopefully they pay it some attention and boost it back up.
In short it doesn’t matter how many people are in WoW if nobody wants to do BG’s because they are in tatters.