Used to be roughly 3-5 minutes to wait for a BGB, now it’s 15+ minutes long.
What have you done to the queue times.
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According to a Game Master he explained to me that it is also based on availability, where I’m in that ‘MMR’ where no one is at the current time. Bit odd if you ask me.
I’d rather wait 15min~ to get into a legit lobby instead of getting griefed and put into a waaay lower lobby mmr-wise and with people that are clueless.
With their old queue system you could be randomly tossed into a 1800 mmr game with people still in their placements while being 2.5+ cr / 2.9+ mmr.
That explains why for my shaman it was showing average wait time is 15 +/- minutes, while for my DH it was only 5 minutes.
Certainly, a good change, but sadly, with my limitted time in WoW I might have to pause playing on shaman then.
This.
Thanks low rated players you basicly deleted the mode (this is meant for the ones crying about elo hell which dont exist btw its a skill issue).
Now every lobby takes 15-20 minutes to form instead of 2-3 minutes.
If you get 3k mmr btw queues dont pop at all - 40+ minutes.
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Idk what to say,ques were better but sometimes randomly you would end up in low mmr gain 0 rating on win or lose 23 or more,prefer this way but ye i myself sit on 15-20min ques sometimes even longer.
That would happen if you queue off hours because there isn’t alot of people playing at certain mmr thresholds. But yea lets replace 2-3 minutes with 20-30 minutes queue time that’ll do wonders for participation. Basicly you cant spam this mode now if you win alot because you wont be able to play eventually, that means alot of people need to throw games to keep their mmr down to get reasonable queue times.
Jokes on you. You get randomly placed hundreds of mmr off yours with 3+ mage,hunter, rogues with the only change being the 20m queue time.
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The quality of the games is negligible from before the patch, just now you have to wait half an hour to play versus 5 minutes before
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You get extremely long queues at lower MMR too.
30+ minutes at prime time @ 1700 is absolutely insane.
With these queue times, Blitz is essentially dead.
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Queue times are like 10 minutes and it’s better like this, sure you’ll have to wait a lil bit longer but the quality of games go up and you don’t get griefed by being tossed into a random lobby, this is how the MMR system should work.
I’m not to speak about lower rated games but considering i can find games usually within 10 minutes at 2.5-3 surely there’s games down there.
Rather sit in a 5 minute longer queue than having a random filled 1.8 player in my game that’ll just cost me the game
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15 minutes minimum for 2400+ MMR queues.
But a couple of games I’ve encountered 1.5k players, many mixed rated players.
Lowest i’ve seen in a 2.8 lobby was 1.8 and it was a bit later into the evening usually it doesn’t happen sadly sometimes it does but just not as frequent as before.
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It’s 30 minutes, and the quality hasn’t gone up.
And the longer the queue, the fewer people decide to reg - which leads to an additional increase in the queue.
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average says 8 but i have now waited 20 xD
When I have only 1 hour to play, before I could do 4 games. Now I can barely fit 2, in the evenings - only one. There’s no way I spend 1 hour to play only one game.
For healers it was insta-queue, but magically now I can wait up to 25mins. Blizzard to ashamed to admit that they messed up.
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And I’ve been thinking about it in a way how much time it could require to reach 2000 for example.
To reach 2000 with a good wr (65%) I had to play 70 games, 70 queues.
To reach 2000 in SS with a slightly better wr (70%) I had to play 8 lobbies, 8 queues.
So just comparing the time need to achieve that:
Blitz - 70games * 15min gameplay, average 10 min queue for healer = 17.5h of gameplay and 12h of queue.
Solo shuffle - for healer it’s 1-2min queue. 15min queue Overall
Gameplay is the same, 1 lobby = 15min. 8*15 = 2 hours
So to reach 2k in Blitz with good WR = 39hours
To reach 2k in SS with good WR = 2.5 hours.
Even a 10min queue in Blitz is BREAKING the mode completely. You have to spend in queue x10 more time than to PLAY in SS.
I’m fine with playing more games in Blitz, as it’s still fun. But spending 15hours in queue to reach 2000 as a healer? nah thanks
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When u put it like that its disturbing, I can’t play on my main until night(simply dont have que time waited 1.30h ,also have pic to prove it)
We as a playerbase deserve the queue times.
People constantly rage about healers, people despise specs like fistweaving that give dps players a way to heal in a way they find fun.
Congrats, you dont have healers and therefore dont have games to play.
people think any criticism is toxic and turn off chat instead of tempering their ego, people play like its team death match instead of playing the objective ect.
Blizzard 100% needs to change how healers work and completely pander to them. People clearly dislike the gameplay so they just dont do it.
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