Fix premades queue dodging

Evade-3235387 · February 4, 2020, 7:02pm

Drakthar:

Facing premades is one of the most frustrating experience as a pug. It is even more frustrating when the in-game mechanics allow premades to makes sure they only face pugs. I stopped playing WSG, the battleground I enjoy the most after losing 6 one-sided games in a row.

While I don’t have a perfect solution, a few changes that could make the WSG experience viable again :

Option for solo players to only face solo players, even if it means a longer queue. I’d rather wait 30 minutes to get into a balanced WSG than 12 minutes to face a premade that will stomp me.

Add random delay before actually queuing to prevent people from syncing their solo queues

Require every player in a party to press “enter battle” before the group actually gets in the game

I don’t know many people that would keep queuing for pvp after losing virtually every game they play. As these players stop to play pvp, the situation gets worse and worse for the other pugs. I understand some alliance think that the changes that were made to AV ruined AV for alliance. I personally think that the only reason this happens is all the hardcore pvpers of alliance headed to WSG after not being able to efficiently premade AV anymore. I’m sorry but the AV map imbalance is not the reason why alliance gets wiped in the middle of the map.

The situation must be addressed for all battlegrounds at the same time, else we are just shifting the problem else where. This is not a horde or a alliance issue, it is a pug issue. You can keep thinking that all the changes make the things worse but without them we soon won’t have any pug queueing for pvp anymore.

I am not doing pvp to rank up, but to have fun. The reason why I am not joining premades on my server is precisely this : having a coordinated team vs pugs is not fun. There is no pride in winning a one-sided game. I really believe the only reason why people are doing it right now is because it is the most efficient way to rank up. We need changes to prevent that.

Queue AV if you want to pug. WSG is the premades playground