Guild Wars 2

Worst thing about World PvP is the fact that if you log in during the night or a weekend, you can literally sit in a queue for the entire night and never get in. Of course the servers can only handle so many players in a zone which is understandable. But still people want to play. WvW (if they fix a few currently broken mechanics of it) is what will keep this game alive for years to come. I have a few suggestions about the queues.

1. PLEASE let me see where I’m at in the queue. If I’m queuing for the eternal battlegrounds and I’m player one thousand…I’ll never get in. I’d like to know that so I can either go do something else in PvE or go play structured, or I can go see which of the borderlands has the least amount of people in the queue so I can join that one.

2. Make sure the queues are fair. My friend queued for EB last night and never got in. Five minutes after he queued I queued up and 20 minutes later I got in…? Uh. No. That’s bad.

3. Make it so you cannot queue anywhere in the world. Force us to go to lion’s arch to queue up. This would eliminate people under level 25ish taking up queue spots unless they ran all the way through the zones to get the waypoint (let’s be honest guys, people that low level have no place being in WvW with fully decked out level 80’s. It’s not fair to them, the 80’s they are facing, and the other people on their server who are trying to get in and actually win).
Edit: Sorry but I forgot and someone pointed out anyone can go to lion’s arch through the mists. But my point remains the same.
I’d prefer anyone under level 60-70 not being allowed in WvW but that’s my personal opinion. I think there should be lower level WvW zones for lowbies to be in because they just get roflstomped in pvp anyways. This is not part of the formal suggestions I’m putting forward but I think it would be better for the health of the game longterm if lowbies could not join. (my best preference is only 80’s can be in but I understand the arguments against that since these zones are the only current open world pvp zones available)
This would also make it slightly more difficult to queue (it’s a simple teleport to lion’s arch) so hopefully it would reduce the queue a little bit.

4. Possibly let us queue for all 3 at once? I’m not 100% sold on this one myself put I’ll put it in here for discussion’s sake.

I love this game and I love it’s WvW despite some structural flaws. What I don’t love is not getting to play it when I log in and literally sitting in a queue all night long with NO idea where my position in the queue is. I understand the servers can only handle so much and there will be queues, but in a game as popular as this WvW Arenanet has to find solutions to let people actually play their content. If this goes on for several months people who have jobs or other activities that force them to come home during primetime hours which force them to sit in a 5 hour queue will quit and this part of the game will slowly die.

3- It takes about 8 seconds to get to Lion’s Arch at level 1. Fatal flaw there though as a fully exotic’d level 80 I understand the point wanting it that way.

Umm, you can’t queue from Lion’s Arch since it’s an overflow server. And level 1 players can get to Lion’s Arch by going into the mists and using the portal.

There’s already an official thread for complaining about queues though, so why not just add your thoughts to that thread?

Richard.8207:

Umm, you can’t queue from Lion’s Arch since it’s an overflow server. And level 1 players can get to Lion’s Arch by going into the mists and using the portal.

There’s already an official thread for complaining about queues though, so why not just add your thoughts to that thread?

Looks like you may also be slightly misinformed – you absolutely can queue from Lion’s Arch if you are in the overflow server by walking into the portal.

Lion’s Arch itself is also not an overflow server, but, like all areas, the potential to have one can arise if there are too many people in the primary instance.

1) Go to a lower populated server such as Ruins of Surmia or Fissure of Woe, problem solved.

Richard.8207:

Umm, you can’t queue from Lion’s Arch since it’s an overflow server. And level 1 players can get to Lion’s Arch by going into the mists and using the portal.

There’s already an official thread for complaining about queues though, so why not just add your thoughts to that thread?

Oops forgot about that. But most new players won’t know to do that. And where’s that thread? I didn’t see it.

Rimarlk.1529:

And where’s that thread? I didn’t see it.

On the first page of topics titled “Queues for WvW: The Official Thread” at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Queues-for-WvW-The-Official-Thread

Hmmm I idk how I missed that one. Thanks. Could a mod lock this thread plz?