Guild Wars 2

I have pretty often twice or triple as much, as the average queue time. Some days ago even nearly 4x the average queue time!!!

Given it’s an “average” double the time isnt odd.

More than that is the universe conspiring against you to so you’ll smash your head into a wall, or dive off a bridge or something.

I have same experience as OP in main. What i want to know is why do i need to queue for 4-5 mins most the time BUT then sometimes can get in to a match in 20 secs? That would seem to point to the system not being optimized at all.

Sinning.7483:

I have same experience as OP in main. What i want to know is why do i need to queue for 4-5 mins most the time BUT then sometimes can get in to a match in 20 secs? That would seem to point to the system not being optimized at all.

It could suggest that in the first instance, you entered the queue and were selected from the pool first, but had to wait for more people to enter the pool and be selected.

In the latter, you could have entered the pool last (other people having entered and filled the queue first), and thus were picked out immediately and thrown into a game.

This is why double the average queue time isnt odd, same as an instant match on entering queue, they’re the extremes of the average.

Longer queue than the average? An anomolie, bug, or conspiracy Anet has out for you. You choose.

yeah but usually it was like sometimes you are quickly in (less then 2 minutes), somtimes it took a bit longer (2~4 minutes).

And now i have the feeling that i wait really often 5 minutes and longer. While the average queue time is still, 2~3 minutes.

Maybe that’s the average queue time for conquest and stronghold, but because i only play stronghold it takes longer for me. or something like that.

Why are you queuing stronghold only?

Cause I like it and it’s something new. I’m a little bit tired of conquest, at least for the moment ;P

Queuing only stronghold is probably not helping. I think more people have only conquest than only stronghold.

Okay i just tested it a few more times.
First: I’m pretty sure the average queue times represents always all pvp modes, not only the one you queued.

In the last 2 day i tried to queue up for stronghold only a few times and canceled the queue after 15~30 mins. The average queue times was about 2~3. When i queued up later then with conquest i could join a game after 1~5 mins. So that was correctly.

Second: I think stronghold is pretty dead know. Cant be true that i have to wait more then 20 minutes to play a maxium of 15min stronghold.

NeroBoron.7285:

Second: I think stronghold is pretty dead know. Cant be true that i have to wait more then 20 minutes to play a maxium of 15min stronghold.

No no, its dead. Everyone has the same long queue times for stronghold. Its a super boring map now though. If you get one or two cleric Elementalists to heal the NPCs in front of doors its like fighting that unbreakable golem in the lobby for 15 minutes.

GWs pop is dropping. BnS came out which is doing well. Ppl are moving on.

Let me take this opportunity to again say: let us queue outside of HotM like before!

Constantin.5608:

NeroBoron.7285:

Second: I think stronghold is pretty dead know. Cant be true that i have to wait more then 20 minutes to play a maxium of 15min stronghold.

No no, its dead. Everyone has the same long queue times for stronghold. Its a super boring map now though. If you get one or two cleric Elementalists to heal the NPCs in front of doors its like fighting that unbreakable golem in the lobby for 15 minutes.

Yeah thanks to the current meta and possible to heal way too much. Already kittenes me off in conquest. And i guess it won’t be fixed with the patch on tuesday.

The stronghold map and princip is cool and a lot of fun and a welcome alternation in pvp.

Celtus.8456:

Let me take this opportunity to again say: let us queue outside of HotM like before!

Can only agree. They could just kick you from pvp queue on traveling. To prevent having game ready when you are in a loading screen.

Locuz.2651:

GWs pop is dropping. BnS came out which is doing well. Ppl are moving on.

Yeah, just like Arch Age and Black Desert before it.
Hint – horrible p2w games with horrible asian anime characters cannot replace western games on western market. Never.