I probably sit in the solo shuffle queue like 2-3 times a day for 30-40 minutes, then just give up and log out before the queue even pops.
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Yup…cancelled sub for this exact reason…i dont care the rationale that the apologists use here either. I’m spending legit 70% of my in game time literally waiting on a queue. Its like…yeah no thanks.
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Okay. What would you suggest blizzard do about it?
I dunno because my pvp gear (despite being ilvl 414 pvp) - is ridiculously low for world content. I can basically do nothing but sit in town at 177k hp…or go to the new area and do a full pvp rotation on each mob I encounter.
Maybe if pvp gear wasn’t absolutely horrific for world content, despite warmode being on, I could go mine while waiting in queue or catch up on quests while waiting in queue…something.
I understand this is a new alt…but I went through the hassle to get at least fully honor-geared. Running around with 170k hp doesn’t leave a lot of extra stuff to do.
You can basically afk yourself to 395 in a few hours at the forbidden reach
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I would suggest try the normal 3v3 or 2v2 but since so many are just in shuffle or queue for shuffle well lfg is pretty dead too.
I did my first 2 solo shuffles yesterday and i got in the first one within 5minutes and the second one within 10minutes.
I’ve heard of people waiting but dang.
What do you want Blizzard to do? Clone people and make them healers?
Maybe make it so my pvp gear isn’t 340 in the world. You realize how bad it sucks trying to do the new zone with 170k health, full pvp opener and rotation on every mob you encounter?
I’m certainly not asking for handouts, and I have two mains that are fully PVE geared…I’m just looking for some side action and some fun during down time…but it’s miserable.
The way PVP gear always used to work was that it was somewhat-relevant in world content if you had warmode enabled. Now, it doesn’t even scale up until you are actively engaged in pvp combat…rendering it pretty useless in the world. It just feels really bad.
I fully understand I can get and upgrade pieces to 395 in that new zone - but then even if I was in a full set of that, I’m running around in the world with 395 gear - with warmode on and zero Versatility getting crushed by anyone with pvp gear on. There’s no medium to it.
To put it into perspective, I think my main has 450k hp in the world…and if I hit a target dummy, I’m consistently at 80-90k dps. My rogue in a full set of honor and some conquest gear - I have 177k hp and struggle to do 18k dps (not engaged in pvp combat). It’s a pretty huge difference.
Then spend time upgrading it
Gearing is insanely easy and you don’t need bis gear for world content, so I mean…
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What does the lack of healers in RSS have to do with PvE gear/ilvl?
Blizzard put this on themselves by making healing miserable in Dragon-Flight. This all started with that god awful dampening change to healing. The damage is insane and its hectic trying to heal people in RSS. Have to do 100 things at once all while constantly spamming heals and avoiding CC. Make one small mistake or get trapped or something and your teammate is just dead in a 2 sec stun. Mean-while ape brained dps just running around pressing buttons at will. That is why no one wants to bother healing its to stressful and unfun in solo shuffle. People will rather wait out the 30-40 min queues than suffer healing.
Have you been following the conversation?
I’m basically saying that maybe if the game wasn’t miserable for honor-geared alts in the world, while waiting in the 30-40 minute queue, it wouldn’t be so boring - as opposed to sitting in Valdrakken waiting for the queue to pop endlessly.
I know that in past expansions, bg/honor geared alts weren’t this bad in the world. I’ve been playing the game for nearly 18 years. It just feels terrible at the moment.
If healing solo shuffle felt more like how it did in SL, I’d queue more often—like, literally a hundred times more. (Edit: Maybe five hundred times more.) Before it was stressful but kinda fun, and now it’s just stressful and not fun
Nobody wants to heal because of the frantic pace of the game atm. Anyone can see the expansion is nose diving. They either need to work out a better pairing system, scrap solo shuffle to flush 2s and 3s with people, or significantly reduce damage or something in arena and slow the games down.
I have no idea what else to do but logging in and doing legit nothing has likely killed the desire to play for a huge chunk of the player base. Valdrakken feels like a ghost town on my server group now. It wasnt at expansion launch. It hasnt been THAT long that the game should feel this dead.
You should try doing Premade Group RBGs since they are much faster and more efficient than Solo Shuffle.
Make solo q RBGs.