I think most of us can agree, no matter what rating we are, that we’d rather have legitimate bots for healers rather than wait 45+ minutes for a queue for solo shuffle.
Get those healers from the comp stomp to heal if queues take longer than, say, 5 minutes. No one would care if they’re terrible since all the dps players would have to deal with them equally, just like with actual human healers in the match.
Waiting over 45 minutes for a queue is unacceptable.
No, then I can’t “???” them when I die
they should just attach a rating to the pvp dummy for you guys
This reads as if you would place blame on the developers for refusing to act and “fix” the problem.
Bot healers isn’t really a solution imo. What fix do you believe blizzard could implement to resolve this “unacceptable” problem?
I absolutely assure you, fixing healer MMR, better balance and more rewards for healers is not going to fix DPS queue times, full stop.
Also, healer-less RSS, DPS fast passes via playing a healer for x amount of games (and bot healers) will accomplish nothing but a far more miserable experience across the board.
with improvements to chat bot ai you can actually
OP that is 100% the best most viable way!!!
Make Heal Bots, get the queues poppin… Players logging in to NOT play a game and to sit in queue is a problem.
It’s kind of a controversial opinion but yea bots imo are better than long waits. Either that or making a game mode of PvP that doesn’t include healers
Agreed, no matter what they do just to get the players into the game playing…
They still have not learned the lessons of Farmville garrisons in WoD, players sitting around bored quit the game.
Honestly solo shuffle came way too late. Should’ve been added in legion or WoD because people have been asking for it for a long time. The issues we’re having now could’ve been solved a decade ago when PvP was still booming
This may be a weird take but they could always did what they did with Lost Ark (even though pvp was extremely imbalanced in that game).
You get 3 dps on each team fight each other to the death until the timer and the team with the most kills win the lobby. This solves somewhat of the issue of not having to depend on the traditional style arena line up for 3’s but I can see a floodgate of complaints on the forums about x class is performing too well in x mode if something was ever suggested like that.
You didn’t give any proposed solutions to the current problem; you just shot down other peoples’ ideas, which may or may not improve the situation if implemented.
Yes, waiting 45 minutes just to play the game for 3 minutes is unacceptable. All anyone really does in this game is sit around waiting, be it trying to fill rbg teams, sit in lfg for 3s, filling raids, etc. This is probably the biggest problem with this game overall.
What can’t be disputed is that Blizzard’s efforts to improve queue times in solo shuffle by implementing meager rewards for healers hasn’t been working. I haven’t seen any improvement whatsoever over the course of this entire expansion. 45 minute wait times as dps has been standard ever since season 1, even when it was extremely popular.
Ever notice that you get near-instant queues for comp stomp when it’s available? The same could be done for shuffle, since healers are clearly the bottleneck. As I said, if a queue goes past 5 minutes, fill both healer roles with bots.