Originally Posted by
Ripkit
So I play horde on Kil'jaeden US. For us, it's, at prime time, about 10 minutes for a random BG queue. Any other time of the day, it ranges from 15-30 minutes. First of all, those queues are absurd, but I'll comment on that later. My real concern is with the amount of honor you get per game. In a losing game, even a random, you get around 25-30 honor. In a winning random, you can expect between 60-85 honor. Now let's do a little math:
Take a 15 minute queue and a 15 minute game. Roughly 30 minutes per BG, optimistically. Let's say we win 50% and lose 50%. That's an average of roughly 46 honor per game.
The entire blue set takes 19,450 honor to get (I believe).
Take 45 divided by 19450, we get about 432 BGs to get the entire blue set. Do a little more--30 minutes times 432 BGs is 216 hours.
You need to do 216 hours of random BGs (optimistically, more likely longer), to get the blue PvP set.
Let's say an average player plays 5 hours a day. That's 43 days of farming, spending 100% of your played time doing random BGs and nothing else.
Anybody seeing the problem here?
My second question is why queues take 30 minutes, when I can hop on Call of Duty on xbox live and get into a match in under 30 seconds? My only thought is that it has to be Factions. If so, why are factions still relevant in BGs, causing the 10-30 minute queues when factions are not of any importance in Arenas?
Any thoughts? Similar problems on other realms? Normally I'd say QQ moar to this type of thing.. But this is a little outrageous.