When I hopped on an alt this week and actually needed to grind conquest, I noticed that I got almost no conquest rewards for going 3-3. OTOH, if I’d lost until I got into an easier bracket, I could then go 5-1 or 4-2 pretty easily and actually get conquest. The matches would go by pretty quick if one of the players doesn’t actually try to use defensives, etc…
The queue times might be enough of a disincentive for dps, but for a healer needing to grind conquest it seems like a pretty big temptation to just play poorly for a few rounds to get an easier opponent next round.
I think the conquest rewards should be more in line with regular arena where if you go 3-3 you get a significant amount of conquest. Probably shouldn’t be the same, because there needs to be motivation to form teams, but getting almost no conquest for winning 3 rounds in solo seems untenable.