The total playerbase on retail isnt quing for 1-3 bg’s though. Rated bg’s and arena took the vast majority of pvp players out of regular bg’s.
Not the case in Classic - every single one will be in the same bg q as everyone else. Take that into account.
in retail before mercing was a thing horde had 30-45m queues. it will probably be at least that. though that was before classic’s pvp population all decided to go horde for easy wins so AV may take longer than that.
In 2006 before the introduction of arena every single player that wanted pvp had to use wsg/ab and then av (for marks - thats the only reason any horde ever did av after they got exalted) - pvp q times were on average 3-15 mins in my battle group. After arena was introduced they skyrocketed to 30+ mins.
Dont blame merc modes and whatnot. Arena and then later rated bg’s killed random bg’s - nothing to do with faction balance.
But retail also had multiple xpacs where alliance players went horde even harder than in classic, I don’t think anyone will hit hour queues outside of the off hours.
8 mins isnt too bad for 8am. Game feels very laggy though.
Damn, 8 minutes vs instant
As expected, at least until the hype dies, my guildies are reporting instant queues in disc.
Survey results are in!
They are instant for us getting into AV now.
Lel.
1-2 min AV queue…
Haven’t tried WSG yet.
This thread didn’t age well…
im getting 2 min max Q’s
lol what’s this?
if it makes you feel any better
AV ques have been 2-3 mins for Horde so much for the “hue hue hue” but it wont last of course once ally are AV exalted than WSG exalted and finaly AB exalted.
Less than 3 minutes 
Transfers are coming, so exactly who do you think you are fooling? You will be the orc that’s exactly the same as the orcs in every flamelash video out there. You will be afk in Stormwind, the alliance will be on heartseeker.
Im on Yojamba. I no longer care about the interactions of NA servers due to an OCE only battle group.
/goodbye - it has been fun.
So you’ll just keep doing what you’re doing? Not really a threat at this point.
its like 2m-3m…lol.
Yeah but actual BG queues (ie: WSG) are 15+ minutes…
Only because everyone is queuing AV. This is crazy, a loss for us gives us more honor than Alliance who won 