Guild Wars 2

Since the WvW update many server face large queues again. There should be some playerfriendly and intelligent changes how queues work.

1. You don`t queue with a character but with your account

If people are forced to queue up for sometimes hours, why dont u give them the convenience to switch characters while queued without losing their spot in the queue? So people could at least do something usefull plus they could switch to more needed classes while they queue.

2. If u have a spot on the map you can occupy that spot for 2 minutes to reroll to another classs

WvW is a teambased gamemode and if u have large queues but your squad f.e. needs guards desperatly, give people the chance to switch characters in a narrow timeframe. This would improve the gameplay so much. If u leave wvw, there could be a window with a “leave” and “switch charater” button to chose from so people who are really leaving dont occupy a spot on the borderland for no reason.

This has been asked for since the beginning of wvw.

Anet have never even mentioned considering it.

But hey, maybe one day some Anet dev will be bored for 5 minutes and change the coding to allow it. Or hell might freeze over. One of those will happen first.

I know it has been asked for several times, but I might believe in miracles.

1. Hell yes. I fully support this suggestion.
2. Sounds good on paper, but….. I’d be concerned that it would end up bugged, and the queues would end up clogged with copies of “ghost” players, while only having about 20 people on the map. There was a similar bug a few years back, so there’s already a precedent for this sort of thing happening. And, with WvW, if it can break it will, and who knows when, or if, it would end up getting fixed.

No need to even consider queue or holding your spot.

Anet could just add an NPC that automatically switches to a character you choose (you walk up to him, talk and choose one of your available characters, see loading screen and bam back at spawn waypoint with your other character).

They havent fixed this in 5 years though, so dont hold your breath.

+1 i wish i could queue as an account and/or switch toons while in WvW