This could be the very reason why according to alliance players horde wins almost every game. We are forced to premade for fast queues and will stomp the alliance players who solo queue who have instant queues.
I think this should get fixed. I dont understand why whenever I queue as a group the queues are almost instant, but solo it take longer than 30 mins, sometimes even around 40 min…
It was “fixed” after much negative feedback from solo players facing premades. The developers then intentionally pit premades against premades and solos against solos.
Meaning if there’s not enough solo players queuing they will not get a battleground match which was one of my points but nah; everyone kept screaming at me PREMADE PROBLEM > QUEUE TIME and now we’re in the Queue time is too long phase.
I still face solo players when playing in a 5 man premade group… So blizz didn’t got that right either lol… this company… so much money, yet so many fails
And when I finally get in a game, I also face alliance premades from time to time. But right now I am exactly 33 and 20 seconds in queue. still waiting…
Yes as alliance we face an increased amount of 5 man premades lately despite us having only solo players.
I’m not tagging anymore because of it, a shame because AB has been super fun until now.
Hopefully it’ll make you leave.
All PvPers must leave.
I still haven’t had a BG q longer than 15 minutes, which has been a standard waiting time for horde for over a decade
As a result, Horde has an advantage in race, in class, in skilled players. It also has more PvP players. Long queues for the Horde are a direct consequence. Unless racials are balanced out, BG queues will never be in good shape, albeit they might improve compared to what we have now.
Just allow same faction bgs to fill void or some traitor tabard to allow more gameplay. Queues are worse than killing my fellow horde boyz
If even mvp like you is salty that premades were removed and blaming it purely on this were all lost lmfao. It couldn’t be a failure in matchmaking that seems to be bugged… Your telling me when your queuing in duo and get instant que whilst queuing solo you get 30mins is a “punishment” for whining about premades… Same as everyone that mentions the fall of sod is due to removing gdkp. I dont trust blizzard coding when they cant even fix tooltips 
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Horde players that I’ve met on LF EU are pretty bad, with the rare exceptions ofc.
Maybe there is a reason for the queue time ?
Are you trying to solve the right problem ?
It’s purely cause horde que goes from 25 min to 2 min if you sign with a group of 3-5 ppl
How can it be that if you sign as 2 or more people, the que time drastically reduces ?
There is something with with the “matchmaking”
Well something is definitely not right, if anything solo queue should be faster.
Yeah, the que system is totally messed up, no doubt. And the premaders say it’s cause they killed premades, but its not. Then the que time would be long even if you signed as 2 ppl.
It was the same on classic and retail, this is why they implemented same faction bgs, bonus honor and “mercenary” mode to help with horde queues. So don’t talk about class/racials/premade problems, because It’s not.
Sounds like you were wrong and they were right: The BG experience in phase 2 has been a lot better than phase 1.
You can still premade all you want, but now you can also join a game solo or play with 1-2 guildies without having to fight as pug vs full 10 man premade every battleground.
I’ve got only positive experiences and things to say about the matchmaking changes in phase2.
Solution to queue times would be to incentivize people to play more battlegrounds. AB exalted is very quick thanks to STV event, and the honor caps are still locked in this phase and farmed in a weekend.
Alliance PVE Andys getting AB exalted by spamming braindead STV event.
While waiting on my horde character for 40 min i just did 4 bgs on my alliance in the meanwhile joining solo and all i faced was a full premade 4x in a row so they HAVENT FIXED A DAMN THING.
This is really annoying and boring i dont wanna face a full premade when i join solo and get destroyed 4x in a row.
Less alliance will play BGs because of this and horde players who join solo are also being punished just so that people who go in full mega geared OP comps get instant queue.
Keep it up blizzard your doing a great job