Guild Wars 2

Many servers including the ones in lower tiers have been noticing an issue with the WvW queue. For some reason, even though a map can have less than 25 players, there’s still a 1+ hour queue to get in. Some players have also noticed a map having a queue while they have outmanned buff (less than 10 players on the map).

This issue started happening after the recent patch. Could it be that the culling change is the cause of this? Player model is cached and not properly cleaned up so a “shadow” remains on the map for hours even though they leave the map? Map cap is changed to be dynamic based on players from other server but there is a bug? Players who are guesting trying to enter wvw which still counts towards the server they are guesting?

from what I understand is that only a certain number of players can be on each map, but it does not matter which server they are from. So for example if a map could only hold 200 players, and TC had 180 players on the map, that only leaves 20 for the other 2 servers. So yes there can be a queue for WvW despite servers having low numbers because one of the other servers is hogging the map.

That’s different from what I read though. I think an Anet dev said in the past that a map can hold about 500 players, thus allowing each server to hold up to 166 players. If this has changed, and the system is not capping how much a server can field on the map, then I see it as a bug. It really doesn’t make sense to allow a server to field 500 players which caps the the map limit and not allowing any players from the other 2 servers to get in.

ANet replied to one thread stating they can’t replicate the issue

Can you locate the thread?

Wow, that is not good. If they can’t fix it, we can’t go in wvw. Some servers have outmanned buff and still can’t get people in…

Definetly a major issue with queueing at the moment. it was totally borked on reset day and its not just bandwagon servers affected.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Willing-to-share-WvW-details/first

“We have heard multiple reports for months about people being queued for a map and entering it only to have the outmanned buff, but unfortunately we’ve never been able to verify ways that could be occurring. I’m not saying it isn’t happening, but we haven’t ever been able to reproduce the problem, and if we can’t reproduce the core problem, it makes it basically impossible for us to find and fix the bug”

This is 22 days old tho :/

The problem seems to have gotten worse. Instead of just 1 or 2 servers being affected, it has been reported that multiple servers form both EU and NA are affected. Guilds are trying to get players into wvw but they can’t. Players on the map are posting in chat asking people to go in to help since they are have about 20 on the map but the players who want to help have to wait 1+ hour before they can get in. And it’s not just one map – all borderland maps and EB map are affected.

Something must have changed in the recent patch to have made this queue issue worse. I did not notice so many people talking about this queue issue until the last couple of days which is around the time of the most recent patch.

buki.3108:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Willing-to-share-WvW-details/first

“We have heard multiple reports for months about people being queued for a map and entering it only to have the outmanned buff, but unfortunately we’ve never been able to verify ways that could be occurring. I’m not saying it isn’t happening, but we haven’t ever been able to reproduce the problem, and if we can’t reproduce the core problem, it makes it basically impossible for us to find and fix the bug”

This is 22 days old tho :/

Thanks for the link.

I’m in the queue for JQ borderlands for over 75 minutes now. Maybe it’s full, but I never had this since last fall after release.

A new conspiracy theory that has been floating around:

Some players are now saying that the queue has been intentionally lowered after the end of free transfers. This way it forces players who love to wvw and are stuck in 1+ hour longs queues to pay money to buy gems to transfer to the bottom tier with no queue.

gebrechen.5643:

I’m in the queue for JQ borderlands for over 75 minutes now. Maybe it’s full, but I never had this since last fall after release.

From the what people are saying on the forum, it’s not full. The maps are half empty with around 20 to 40 people – definitely not the normal numbers.