124272-what-is-the-primetime-for-bgs-dgs-and-advs

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			I've just recently started playing Wildstar again and there are definitely more players (not as much as I'd like) than there were 2-4 months ago when I stopped playing, but I absolutely cannot stand waiting for 30 minutes to 1 hour just to get into a battleground, dungeon, or adventure. I'm not sure if it's just the day/time that I log on to play, or if it's just that there's not many people queuing? The guild that I am in on my main character (Level 50 exile) has 300+ members but I've never see more than 5 people on and they're never up to queuing with me. If there is a time or day that most players are on, I would love to know. If it's just low population, then how long do you think it will be until the population rises high enough for these instances to start popping within 5 minutes or less?I've been leveling a Cassian esper healer for a week or two and I'm now level 29. Throughout my leveling I have only been able to join one dungeon (not a single battleground or adventure) that lasted for about 20 minutes before everyone left. I assume it was because of my inexperience with healing. This would be my first time healing in any MMO that I have ever played and I wanted to practice at a lower level but I just couldn't get into a battleground. (This is just an example of my struggle.) 	
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			Can't tell if you are on the EU or the NA server. At least NA Entity, I seen more activity after 7pm est, until midnight. After midnight there's still people around but is very quiet on the dominion side. There's a lfg channel, (someone plz correct me if I am wrong with the name), lfgentity.  You may be able to find ppl to team up with :)	
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			EU, seems to be when most are back from work or school, which tends to be normally 16:00 onwards till 01:00 (UK time). For BGs though, I was off for a while not so long ago, and I could get them to pop a lot at any time of the day. Lots of PVP = more ability points for me <3	
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This is a complex question we may know the answer to soon in the PVP department.  The prevailing theories are:
 
-The game doesn't have enough people to run BGs period.  Except they're cross server and there are easily enough people visible to run them just around the auction house.  This doesn't seem likely.
 
-The game doesn't have enough people who like to queue PVP to run BGs period.  Unlikely given the frequency of the complaint, but more likely than the first option, since I think it goes without saying that the PVP-playing population is sparser and is now the area of the game requiring the most attention.  It's getting that, but it's not in the same shape as the PVE wing.
 
-The game has enough people who queue PVP, but the people who will queue are often PBG random casuals who only queue once in a blue moon, not dyed-in-the-wool killing-is-my-business PVPers that will queue endlessly and keep those queues moving.  That can only be fixed if there are deep, systematic changes to PVP, and specifically to the rated PVP end of the game which is currently very sparse.
 
-The game doesn't have enough people in one faction to balance the other.  Certainly possible considering Carbine is now installing blue-on-blue (same faction) BGs.  If BGs suddenly start popping at a higher frequency and we see a lot of Exiles on Exiles, we'll know the faction disparity is the issue.
 
-The system that queues people up is somehow faulty and isn't cleared of rating caps, therefore they have enough people but the queue doesn't pop.  Also possible.  It's been said this was addressed, but we don't know if the system hangs because we can't see who is in queue.
 
-The system that only allows you to queue for one kind of content or the other, not both, chokes PVP.  Also possible.  Queues may become more active once the stated goal of allowing people to queue for multiple kinds of content at once are fully realized.  Carbine says it's on the agenda, but won't be out by this drop.
 
Any or all of the above can be factors or non-factors.  It's hard to say since we can't see the BG queues in real time.
 
PVE queues I do have a bit more direct experience with (though I tend to avoid them).  I can tell you almost exactly why those don't pop for everyone as often, and the issue is twofold:
 
1.  Role-ganging and premades.  This game really hits its stride when you play with people you know.  Guild groups fare far, far better than random PUGs because so much of the game relies on skill and people knowing how to work together.  You can't slap your face on the keyboard in whatever spec you have and win; a vet dungeon can eat you alive.  So even if people aren't in a full premade (avoiding the queue entirely), they tend to queue as partial premades.  That means a tank and healer might queue together, grab a bunch of DPS, and start off.  However, if a tank and two DPS queue, and a healer and two DPS queue, you don't get a group.  I imagine that a bulletin board style Group Finder is now in the works (it was brought up by the players and approved of in that discussion by the devs), though it isn't here yet.  Then, we would know who needs what role for what, and also the second issue....
 
2.  The old and new player divide.  A new player has a significant learning curve in order to master things like the eye of the storm mechanic in Vet STL.  Someone who has cleared it time and again might get frustrated if someone costs them a gold medal in a PUG by dying there.  That latter case has gotten a bit more rare lately, but with the new player influx, the former is becoming more common.  That bulletin board style Group Finder may help there as well if people can demarcate that they are new-player friendly or farming gold medals.  Right now, those groups are mixing, the new player sometimes feeling bad when even a polite veteran drops the group because the newbie isn't learning fast enough.
 
Since a new kind of group finder is almost certainly coming that more fully simulates an LFG channel than a Dungeon Finder-style autoqueuer, we may see PUGs become a lot more viable through that.  In the meantime, you're often better off, if you're an Exile on Entity, just /chjoin LFG and try to put together at least most of your skill positions in that.	
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Sub-50 queues are barren. Join your local LFG channel and you'll probably have more luck finding people for low level adventures and dungeons. I only know the ones on Entity, not the Jabbit ones.
 
Entity Exile: /chjoin lfg
Entity Dominion: /chjoin EntityLFM	
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I've been leveling a Cassian esper healer for a week or two and I'm now level 29. Throughout my leveling I have only been able to join one dungeon (not a single battleground or adventure) that lasted for about 20 minutes before everyone left. I assume it was because of my inexperience with healing. This would be my first time healing in any MMO that I have ever played and I wanted to practice at a lower level but I just couldn't get into a battleground. (This is just an example of my struggle.)
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You're going to be hard pressed to get instance pops while levelling.  In part this is a population issue: The levelling population is small and the game still isn't very alt friendly.  The bigger issue is that questing is far far more efficient than running adventures and dungeons due to the medal system.  Even if somebody is working on an alt they're likely just bypass the instance content until they hit 50.
 
Outside of some pre-arranged events lowbie PvP instances don't pop at all.  Too many brackets for too small a population.
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And this is a huge problem!
 
I mean you and I can only bring in so many people, it's up to Carbine to make a huge push into getting the people needed so low level BG's Arenas and dungeons pop.
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It's because you guys all rolled bunny rabbits that you're not getting fast queues. Reroll dominion 
 
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Unfortunately there's not a whole lot they can do for lowbie BG's I think.  Maybe developing a smarter Rally algorithm and opening up the brackets.
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I definitely still think the solution to leveling BGs is to just scale everyone sub-50 up stat-wise and roll them all into practice battlegrounds.
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The level 50 PBG's?  They'd get smeared like any 50 going in in greens. 
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