People will be more motivated to learn their specialization
People won’t be leaving the game in the thousands because of nobody accepting them because they don’t have a pre determined amount of versatility, the pre determined spec, and the pre determined rating.
I don’t read/respond to people who claim otherwise. People who claim that anyone can get high rated arenas in order to have fun in battlegrounds. It’s wrong, and every troll claiming otherwise knows this.
Literally (and yes, i know what literally means) all blizzard has to do is add solo queue to ranked 2v2. 3v3. and RBG battlegrounds. LFG is dead: nobody on earth wants to whisper people for an invite to 3v3 arenas, on a class they aren’t a grandmaster on. On a class they havn’t played for a decade. People don’t want to have to apply for a CHANCE to play arenas.
Blizzard is incompetent. Every single person playing retail knows this. They can’t balance specs, they are totally incapable of even trying to balance or nerf what’s overpowered. You can’t play what you want to play. You need to play meta comps. You need to play what’s broken overpowered (WW monk, etc).
Solo queue is an absolute must. An absolute must. Let me repeat. An ABSOLUTE MUST. I know nobody at blizzard cares. I know that nobody on the forums cares. But I care. I’d like to play arenas. LFG is absolutely KILLING pvp participation.
Solo queue will motivate people to play arenas. Solo queue will motivated people to learn new classes. Solo queue will motivate peopled to want to compete. Solo queue will motivate people to want to win battlegrounds. Solo queue will allow multiple alts on one account to push themselves to learn their class. There is literally no downside to solo queue.
I am going to completely ignore anyone who claims otherwise.
have any of yall played OverWatch? do you realize how awful it is to queue solo and get matched with off meta or incredibly toxic individuals? people who wont use comms, who wont follow strats in chat…
this would not help. it would just create other problems.
its all fun and games until you have a torbjorn main running off the edge of the map constantly just because theyre in a bad mood
100% agree. Solo queue would fix many issues currently plaguing pvp. Right now I would rather queue for a skirmish than post my biography for 1500cr games in LFG, just so I can get in a few games in for fun.
-Add solo queue system with it’s own bracket. Playing vs only other Solo queue players.
-Add mercenary mode to reduce queue times and fix faction imbalance.
-Add extra rewards for healers (bonus honor, conquest, soul cinders, korthia research etc. to incentivize healers to queue and reduce queue times)
-Add class/spec specific ladder/rankings
Just do it. This could be fun bracket for those involved. No boosters, no barriers of entry.
The off meta is irrelevant and evens out over games played for everyone. It should be it’s own bracket. It would encourage non-meta specs to queue up and play for fun. It would encourage casual players to try out pvp without being constantly rejected through LFG tool.
Just imagine hitting 60 and being able to instantly join the ranked play…wow. Try to do that now , it’s impossible.
Just go to LFG system and see how many people are queuing. Clearly the current model does not work. Just open up your mind.
Good news is you don’t need to queue the bracket if you don’t like it, just like thousands of players are currently not queuing arena, due to horrible and outdated design that has not kept up with times.
Just because you are willing to do it, it does not mean that it’s a good system and works for everyone. All you need to do is look at the current participation numbers.
Most players don’t have the time and dedication to make the current system work, that would indicate poor design. (that does not make them inadequate individuals)
are the participation numbers low because of a system that has been around for decades without issue, or is the participation numbers low because theres been 1 significant content patch in an entire year and everything is getting delayed due to blizzards legal problems and covid?
Solo que would fix literally nothing wrong with the game currently. It will just split up the current players into 2 brackets, and eventually might just straight up kill off the normal ladder if it doesn’t cause pvp to die way before then anyways. There are so many other problems with the game that need to be addressed before solo que can even be considered, mainly accessibility. What they need to do instead is revamp the lfg system, deal with the spammers and carries and potential allow cross faction quing and that alone would be a way better alternative to solo que. Wow isn’t the type of game where solo que would work, there’s too many different classes and comps they’d have to work around and the game in itself is a social game. You find a cool group of people and you climb together. It’s not a solo experience.
Content drought sure. Legal problems? I guarantee a casual player is not even aware that they even exist. Covid would relate to content drought.
Large barriers to entry is likely the biggest factor for low participation. (gear acquisition, sockets, legendary, conduits, LFG system)
A solo queue would help to alleviate that along with gearing changes. It would eliminate the barrier of entry. Reduce the impact of need to have the full gear, conduits, legendary etc, just to play the game for fun, while still being able to compete.
The reason you can’t hit 60 and Q arena instantly is because you need gear, conduits, a legendary, renown for soul binds… not because no ones taking you. Well, they aren’t taking a fresh 60 but because of those things. People don’t want to Q with 30k hp players in a premade format and definitely not in a yolo format.
That being said, the closest solo Q has come to being viable is legions template system. If you didn’t have to do all these things to get a character arena ready, you would see a boost in participation.
Solo Q would possibly help participation somewhat - depending on how it would be implemented, if it was a separate ladder then it would hurt premade current ladder…. Doesn’t change the point that a big part of inaccessibility is the fact that it takes a large time investment AND rating (for whatever reason) to get a character competitive. If they solved that issue (templates, or reducing catching up to current conquest cap by massive margins - I’m talking 10 wins or something to be at this weeks 550) then Solo Q could possibly be a benefit
its all content draught. this 9.1.5 should have been out month or two ago at least, we’re on month 4 of 9.1 without anything. the pandemic, the legal issues, the firings / quittings of top team members… its all left us with nothing being pushed live. thats the issue.
Or…
Blizz could take the time/resources required to implement SoloQ (brackets, rewards, matchmaking system etc) and use it to get rid of pvp gear scaling due to rating, conduits not scaling in rated.
Lego changes are already on the way, and conquest increases already active (even tho it should have a catchup mechanism for ppl with a huge cap)
I agree with most of this. I do think there are some at Blizzard who would be open to using the solo queue. Also, there are people on the forums who care too. I am one. LFG is absolutely terrible. The LFG changes in 9.1.5 by no means addresses the wants of the community who are asking for solo queue.
Blizzard just has no idea the level of misery that is currently part of the LFG system. Solo queue would go very far in fixing many issues members of the community have.
I say give it a chance. I understand that wow wants comps and “togetherness” in the game but that’s not in the game right now. Since… ya know… nobody pvps any more(or even plays the game for that matter). I kinda doubt that solo que would fix it but at least it would be something new that people could tryout. I know it would at least fix boosting entirely. Maybe they could include a feature to it that allows you to try to que with specific comps, I understand you might wanna play with your lock friend as you play hunter or something off meta, but if that’s the case and youre playing for fun and not to push rating, then go do bgs/rbgs. However in arena you’re almost always gonna try to get the comps that match with your spec. So maybe that could help. If they find a way incorporate this, then Solo que would be by far the best option. Even tho que time would probably increase.
