How Is Solo Shuffle Wait Time So Long?

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Game said average wait time is 17 minutes for a solo shuffle game?? How is that possible? How hard can it be to group 6 strangers together for an arena? We literally subscribe to this game with monthly payments and the servers are still potatoes.

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Because you’re the seventh stranger

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Or maybe it just isn’t that popular, or matches take a while.

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healers are scarce.

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WoW servers are potatoes but that isn’t why the queues are that long.

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Because you’re a druid and not healing

Healers are the problem, fix it by queuing as healer

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I was on my dk :slight_smile:

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30 minutes for me , such a painful wait i dont even bother, plus the time vs reward on it just sucks, just dont enjoy pvp systems that dont reward you for putting the time in, only punish you for waiting , punish you for losing.

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One of the reasons why the ques are so long for DPS is that they removed the tank que that would pop for DPS if there were no healers queing. Now the DPS que for Solo Shuffle is dependent on if healers que or not. DPS complained about the tank ques and as a result, Blizzard removed tank ques and made the que times entirely dependent on healers queing. So you can blame the DPS that complained on these forums for that one.

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Dile a healer and help alleviate the congestion. As it stands healers are not incentivized to que due to them not even gaining ratings even if they go 5-0. If they can only lose rating why would they que

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Cause you need 6 players to queue in individually.

Whereas in three’s , you have 2 groups of 3 's who need to queue in .

So my napkin math says solo queues will take 3 times longer than regular queues -

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Yep.

other options will come up faster since matchmaker at some point goes “meh, who needs healers!”.

and this is how get that 1 healer to keep 39 people alive. In wintergrasp. where SR zerg is pretty much gonna happen 99.999% of the time.

I don’t even blame the healers when I get deleted as melee. I do my “dead man walking” bit knowing full well I will die. as melee must “fight on flag”.

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Then you have no right to complain

Queue as healer or enjoy long queues

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People have been asking for solo queue RBGs for ages. Blizzard doesn’t seem to like battlegrounds. They do like 3s, perhaps because they fit nicely into the esports thing. Broadcasting RBGs would take more skill and setup.

So they developed this solo queue round robin thing. Looks like it was needlessly complicated and fixes made it worse.

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Because it’s awful and very few people want to do it.

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Oh sure, I have no right to complain about matching making that nintendo on pokemon can figure out. Isn’t it normal for league players to get half an hour long queues? What about call of duty? No? Hmmm, that’s weird.

I can find a group in group finder and q up, find a game, and the match starts within a few minutes and I’m running on three braincells. How is that better than then wahtever automated system system on the wow servers? I think you missed the point about how the wait time shouldn’t be that long. I don’t care about heals, neither should the game, and neither should you. It shouldn’t be that hard to just pick 6 dps and have a pure dps match.

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I haven’t played it myself but it sounds like there needs to be an all dps group option. Those wait times would decrease dramatically.

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There should be a “solo” option where everyone can one on one fight to the death.

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Cuz this game’s active playerbase is ever-shrinking. :slight_smile:

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You can get in only 17 mins? It is nearly 5 hours average on ours…