EPIC BG que at 50 min and counting

Moonraja-illidan · February 16, 2019, 2:10pm

W…T…F.

complete sentence.

Dangerjosh-wyrmrest-accord · February 16, 2019, 2:11pm

It’s 6am West Coast. You try getting 80 people out of bed this early on a Saturday

Moonraja-illidan · February 16, 2019, 2:16pm

got in a AV after 55 min. Alliance 300 resources, Horde 50…at least I waited 55 min. for a quick loss.

Garbage.

Erelir-bleeding-hollow · February 16, 2019, 2:23pm

The amount of time you spent in queue actually has no bearing on your chances of winning. Your team has to play better.

If you want to shorten your queues, do:

Play during a human hour
Merc
Play alliance

Do not:

Complain about queue times on a forum without a suggested solution

Irisse-maelstrom · February 16, 2019, 4:41pm

I suggest transferring to Alliance.

Bazongas-zuljin · February 16, 2019, 6:01pm

I’ve been flipping from dusty unused alt to dusty unused alt to farm for the Love Rocket. Horde-side DPS I’m waiting like 1-2 minutes and Ally-side I’m waiting 10-15. Is it always like this for the PVE stuff?

Irisse-maelstrom · February 16, 2019, 8:52pm

Yes; I guess Alliance isn’t really big on PVE. The only fast Alliance PVE queue I know of is queing for any 5 man content with a tank.

Chroesire-bleeding-hollow · February 16, 2019, 9:03pm

It all boils down to two things:

Overall population levels
Percentage of the faction’s players doing instanced content

For the first, Horde is at a 4% advantage for level 120 population. For the second, Horde has more players doing instanced content because it has the larger competitive population of the two. In other words, Alliance not only has fewer players, but also fewer players doing anything more than outdoor PvE content. As a result, PvE queue times are in a place that’s a reversal of PvP queue times.

Both long Horde PvP queue times and long Alliance PvE queue times stem from fewer Alliance players.

Irisse-maelstrom · February 16, 2019, 9:14pm

Where “competitive population” includes people who do Raid Finder and warfronts?

We may just have fewer active players period. Maybe it’s just that we are focusing on outdoor content, but if so it’s not just outdoor PVE content; there are plenty of Alliance in war mode at assaults.

Gitz-shattered-hand · February 16, 2019, 9:50pm

HA HA.

The horde might outnumber us, win most BGs, wreck us in wpvp, but at least we have 2 min BG queue times

Bazongas-zuljin · February 16, 2019, 9:57pm

I doubt that, if there is any discrepancy it’s a minor one.

Now I’m just talking about players, not distinguishing between players just hanging out in Stormwind and players doing content.

Shortheals-undermine · February 16, 2019, 11:21pm

it takes 40+minutes for epic bg but a warfront takes 15 sec.
something doesn’t seem right

Desti-bloodhoof · February 17, 2019, 8:41pm

Population imbalance, i think the actual imbalance is worse than anyone wants to admit.

Lovethisface-malganis · February 17, 2019, 8:54pm

There is no way your queue is that long.
I bet you have multiple queues at the same time.
Let’s say 15 min for epic bg then you also queue into random bg 8 mins.
You accepted random bg because shorter queue popped, then when you get out you missed the epic bg queue so it forced your queue into oblivion.

Pípíkaula-proudmoore · February 18, 2019, 4:31am

Sounds like your team was garbage.

FWIW, I think the non-kiddie Aussies are better at epic BGS than most NA ally…

Dosao-bonechewer · February 18, 2019, 12:09pm

WM population at a given time is made to look busy due to sharding … it’s not a true indication of population numbers .

If alliance have an inordinate time waiting for WF’s then I am going to assume that the issue is very serious and the alliance nos are really low because horde wait times are non existent for anything other than activity which calls for alliance to be present as the opposing party ( BG’s for instance )