OCE Arena queue times - include us in the US pools

[Ipanicbubble-arugal]

It is extremely hard as an OCE player to get arena queues in outside of the Tuesday night surge to get the 10 games in.
In retail, you can get queues any time of the day due to OCE being able to queue against US players. This reduces queue times and increases queue frequency.
If you are bringing in personal rating to do away with teams in WOTLK, please consider extending the people OCE players can play against.

Before anyone uses the “but the ping sucks” card, i have personally played at 2.3k+ mmr on retail as a healer which consistently puts you against US players and it was fine! 160+ms each game.
There are multiple Rank 1 players on Frostmourne & Barthilas (OCE retail) queueing against US players at 3k CR so the ping is not an issue.

I would rather be able to queue on 150ms than not queue at all outside of a Tuesday evening.

[Nogz-barthilas]

Great points! arena shouldn’t be relegated to a mini game that only happens on tuesday nights!

[Orcsrage-yojamba]

100% bring the merge back and save oce arena from being run by like 5 people wintrading lol

[Futajr-arugal]

You telling me people don’t like vsing 1 team over and over again at peak hours in 3s and getting literally 0 games of 5v5 on any day besides Tuesday?

[Orcsrage-yojamba]

I love doing that

[Calenwyr-stormrage]

We had queues vs US players then a group of people whined on the forums till it got unmerged early in tbc.

At which time I moved from Arugal to Benediction on my main.

[Onetruegoat-arugal]

Please for the love of Jaina proudmoore merge us. Or at least give us a toggle for queing in with NA.

[Bloomsday-sulfuras]

@Kaivax

Hello. I just want to acknowledge that this was a deliberate step taken to prepare for PvP in the Burning Crusade Classic.

As a result, we expect to see:

• Better PvP queue times for players on Oceanic realms.
• Better Arena matchmaking for Oceanic players.
• A much higher likelihood of Oceanic players being able to meaningfully compete for end-of-season rewards.

On that last point, remember that all of the realms in the Americas and Oceania are part of the same region, and Arena season rewards are region-wide. We don’t want to see Oceanic players prevented from earning rewards because they aren’t being matched up against the vast majority of the region.

We tried this once before already. The oceanic community… protested, to say the least.

[Orcsrage-yojamba]

protested by people who dont even pvp lmao

[Firidar-remulos]

Try Monday night ~7:30