What Is The Science Behind Queue Times?

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I feel for everything but BGs my queue times always vastly overshoot the ETA. I see the ETA for Timewalkings, which I imagine many are running especially for the Heroic piece, at 5-6 minutes, but my queues are often 20-30, if not more.

I had a LFR queue hit two hours once, with an ETA of 30 minutes.

The LFRs I can understand, especially if done later in the week, but why are the dungeons taking so long? What is it searching for in regards to a proper group outside of a tank, a healer and three DPS?

I will admit I ignored a number of level 11s: I don’t enjoy not participating in a dungeon, I don’t understand the appeal of a one button rotation and the fact some have the nerve to charge gold for runs when it’s very, very cheap to optimize for level 11, if you even bother to go all out since you can probably go in with greys and be just fine, bothers me to no end. I don’t think that would affect queue times that much. Nothing against them personally, I just don’t want to play with them.

I dunno, it’s been bugging me for a bit and figured I’d ask about it now since it’s a Tuesday night.

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It’s not science, it’s magic.

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Well, y’know what they say about high technology.

But no, either the tank/healer shortage is more significant than I realized, or it’s searching for something I’m unaware of.

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I just sat in queue for timewalking for over 20 minutes when the average was supposed to be 5, no satchels available either. Reset queue and tried for another 7 when average was 3, never had as big of a disparity as my first queue when queue was working as expected.

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It’s just weird to me. I don’t feel like it was like this in other expansions. Maybe it was and I didn’t realize but I feel like I’m really feeling it with TWW.

I get it, DPS, dime a dozen, but it seems like it’s more extreme now. I tried requeueing a few times before being convinced to not try that again.

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There is very little reason for me to que for heroics or tw outside of a quest. I have 3 or 4 tank toons btw. Your que time is long because it’s straight up not worth my time and many others. The bonus bag is not enough either

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It’s probably just an average of how long it took the last X number of queues to form up or something simple like that.

Science would probably be being generous.

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I think queue times are bugged at the moment.
At least for dungeons they are anyway :person_shrugging:

  • We had a full group of a healer + tank and 3 dps all queue for Timewalking and it didn’t pop until like 7 minutes in … lol

Now I’m not sure about Battlegrounds, but if it’s happening for one thing — I wouldn’t entirely be all too shocked if the others are also stooged at the moment :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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It’s gotten to the point where I just play other games, or boot up Classic HC instead and level there.

Nothing makes me limp faster than a 15+ minute queue for content that doesn’t take that long to complete.

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Some times the queues bug and hyperextend the time (if you start hitting 2x the ETA its faster to drop and requeue).

The science is: from weekly restart, everyone that queues up starts forming a group, and you wait in line until healers and tanks queue.

Yes, theres 30 minutes worth of group forming numbers of DPS in line ahead of you getting their tank before you do

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I would think with all the low-level warriors and priests running around blowing stuff up and almost one shotting the entire dungeon that the queue times wouldn’t last that long. However, if there’s one thing I remember about the past, is that when you finally get a group that’s grooving together and making great progress. They simply just requeue together which keeps them out of the queue pool.