Guild Wars 2

Was just queued up for a guild raid in WvW (wasn’t able to make the beginning of reset night unfortunately) for some time, reached the end of the queue and was given the option to travel to the borderlands (desert borderlands). Upon selecting the option to travel, I was pushed back to the end of the new queue (significantly longer than when I had queue’d up).

Given the state of balance in WvW at the moment, I’d say this is par for the course, but this issue has persisted for multiple years, and wanted to draw attention to it because this is getting ridiculous.

I’ve never had this issue.

There are 3 options to choose from when the WvW queue comes up:
Travel – sends you to the WvW map you were queued for
Reenter Queue – puts you back in the queue at the end of the line
Leave queue – self explanatory

I believe the ‘Reenter Queue’ option is the middle button in the window that pops up. What’s most likely happening is you’re selecting this option.

Edit: Another thought……if you’re pressing the ‘Enter’ key (or other key) to automatically make your selection when the window pops up, it’s possible the default selection is set to reenter the queue instead of traveling to the map.

Also, when bringing up the game options and choosing to log out, there are 3 options in a window that pops up: Log out – Character Select screen – Exit Game.
If I remember right, some time ago it use to be that when pressing the spacebar, enter key, or whatever key it was, to make an automatic selection, it would default to the ‘Log Out’ button. They changed it so that it defaults to the middle option for going to the character select screen.

So the ‘Reenter Queue’ option in the WvW queue window, and ‘Character Select’ on the log out window, are both the middle options. Maybe the systems are connected somehow?

Solution – swap the ‘Travel’ and ‘Reenter Queue’ buttons in the WvW queue pop up window so that ‘Travel’ is in the middle?

Very familiar with the choices, and I did not hit the “re-enter queue” option. Consider yourself lucky you have never run into this (as there is nothing more irritating than making it through a long queue, only to be sent back to the end of it). This is not an isolated incident, it has happened to me and guild-mates multiple times. Posting to hopefully raise awareness about this issue, as it is a long-standing bug that needs to be addressed (at the very least as a QoL issue).

it’s a rare bug, killer. It usually happens to someone during reset, because that’s when the queues are the longest. It rarely happens to more than 1-2 people though.

People have speculated that it’s caused by a rare case of the queue notification on your PC lagging behind the server’s idea of when you were notified. In other words, you think that you had plenty of time to choose to travel, but the game thinks your time was up and re-queued you.

Definitely a bug, but hard to troubleshoot without data. If it happens again, use the in-game /bug reporting tool ASAP to help ANet find the logs of when it happened; that will allow them to compare notes.