Continentwide Realmpools ?

[chelmo]

anybody know something about this topic? still around?


I mean to remember to have read something about Blizz planing (or rather, since they don't promise things, thinking about) to widen the Realm-pools, may even Continent-wide.
I cant remember when i read this, and i cant bring up prove ... but i just can say i HOPE they do it.

After mixing some German and English pools (fractions stay separated), the queues improved slightly, but there are still 15 mins + waits for lot of people.

i hope blizz hasn't put the pvp'er on the bottom of their list, after all, we get raids every x months, but no bgs *sadface*
(i know, balanncing a bg isn't easy, but new textures would do after seeing the same ws for 4 years, but other topic)

[Huntaer]

well the europe ones got mixed up, my battlegroup is english-spanish
tho i dont think we'll ever get like europe-US because of the lagg in pvp.

[Deleted]

As far as i know the Battlegrounds will be continent-wide, while the arenas keep their current battlegroups

[Deleted]

well i would like to see all battlegroups(cyclone , ruins , mistery,etc...) of EU english go together in 1 for LFG and PvP (except arena) like they promised blizz, i was thinking about the same the past days

[Deleted]

I wonder if LFG tool will be getting pooled battlegroups? it'd make queuing non existent for anything ever again! no 10 min queues on weekends for BGs and no 30 min queues for random dungeon on weekdays ^_^ (finally the deserter debuff would have a point :P it's useless if it takes more than 15 mins to get into a BG anyway :P)

[ChildeRoland]

What people tend to forget with random dungeons, is that even if they mix up a battlegroup and gets 1000 more tanks, it's still 5000 new dpsers in comparison. DPS will always have longer queues, no matter what. Once, I even saw a suggestion to give tanks a longer dungeon cooldown, which would be stupid, since that would further increase the time to get a group as a dps.

[Deleted]

What people tend to forget with random dungeons, is that even if they mix up a battlegroup and gets 1000 more tanks, it's still 5000 new dpsers in comparison. DPS will always have longer queues, no matter what. Once, I even saw a suggestion to give tanks a longer dungeon cooldown, which would be stupid, since that would further increase the time to get a group as a dps.

maybe they could give higher rewards for queuing as a tank or healer? (say, 33% more?)
I'm not a tank (mage pew pew FTW! :P), so I'm not sure how much they'd want :P

[ChildeRoland]

maybe they could give higher rewards for queuing as a tank or healer? (say, 33% more?)
I'm not a tank (mage pew pew FTW! :P), so I'm not sure how much they'd want :P

It would help to increase the number of tanks and healers, but a high amount of dps playing non-hybrid classes would cry about it, since they can't assign as tank/healer.

[dotSeed]

maybe they could give higher rewards for queuing as a tank or healer? (say, 33% more?)
I'm not a tank (mage pew pew FTW! :P), so I'm not sure how much they'd want :P

You're much more likely to get hybrids sign up as tank and stay in DPS gear and swap presence/stance/etc and make life somewhat a misery for leveling/gearing healers then. I agree there needs to be an incentive to get more tanks and healers but I don't think that's the right way.