Long BGB queues

[Sinnkra-argent-dawn]

Been sitting in queue for 15 min, I thought Blitz was supposed to be the solution to long solo shuffle queues. Can Blizzard just reduce the healers to one per team if none are available?

[Ðelenis-dun-modr (Ðelenis)]

@Sinnkra-argent-dawn

Been sitting in queue for 15 min, I thought Blitz was supposed to be the solution to long solo shuffle queues

Premade’s fault

@Sinnkra-argent-dawn

Can Blizzard just reduce the healers to one per team if none are available?

Yeah, this would help. Healers is what is missing, therefore, the more they order, the longer is the wait. It’s the same problem as in SoloQ arena.

[Lavarage-draenor]

The problem is the implemented MMR in Blitz, without any rated system behind it.

Once you achieve too high MMR, the queue times become horrible (40+ min). That’s the reason people stopped playing Blitz, as there’s no adequate rewards for waiting in queue that long.

[Charnek-azuremyst]

Surely the goal for most would be for the highest rating possible, not for shining trinkets or a mount/pet that you probably never use.
speaking for myself I only play for fun, never taken notice of peeps mounts or interested in transmorgs. I played in the best game inin months the other night, so close and so fun wouldnt have mattered if I won or lost, just everything that should be in a bg was there.
I transgress, the reals reason for long ques is simply not enough players for a variety of reasons, and also solo shuffle, and new blitz just not hit the mark for many.

[Leeches-aggramar]

Probably the largest reason for long queues is the fact that its low down on the list of options to queue. If you’ve ever looked into marketing practices you realise just how simple things like having an option 3rd down means a large portion (50%+) of people will never even consider it as an option.

Without logging in, I think BG Blitz is like 4th or 5th down and worse, it has the ‘Brawl’ tag associated with it. Most people have tried brawls already and deemed them not worth the effort, so they just never try any new brawl that shows up unless its comp stomp.

Despite the fact that BG Blitz is faster, is more honour and is significantly more conquest than Random BGs, people will still not touch BG Blitz. Add to this the fact that BG Blitz scales you up, meaning you can queue up with just 2 pvp trinkets and you’re ‘good to go’ where as in Random BGs it’ll take you days of spamming those modes to get any decent level of gear

The solution is 3 fold in my eyes:

1. Move it above Epic BGs in the queue list. Epic BGs have been ruined by premades anyway, so who cares about them.
2. Remove the ‘brawl’ tag. It should be ‘Battleground Blitz’ not ‘Brawl: Battleground Blitz.’
3. Remove the MMR system from it. It isn’t rated. It doesn’t need an MMR system - besides, the system is bugged, anyway. I have a 100% winrate on my warrior in BG Blitz yet im permanently 1500 mmr. Meanwhile my rogue which has lost almost every BG Blitz i have joined is for no reason at all 1900 MMR and has infinite queue time.

These 3 changes alone would push more people to try it out and realise that they’re missing out on by far the easiest and fastest non-rated gearing route we’ve had, ever.