I joined back AT (now Warmane) only for the purposes of casual arenas which were available through solo queue.
Now that it is gone I am either stuck with BGs or I have to get into a team and do some actual arenas. The problem with that is that it means coordination, serious playing, etc., which all contradicts with my initial desire for "casual" play with the solo queue.
I really hope they will bring it back. And I am left with the impression that they will once they fix the extensive list of bugs, or at least get through the most important ones. It would be great to get an official statement about this, that would "make it or brake it" for me here.
I'll have to admit Warsong is currently not a good place for casuals. 2v2 arena is totally crap since you'll only face ret/dps comps and you won't beat such comp unless you're playing ret as well. 3v3 arena however, is even worse since you'll be stuck in these everlasting queues.
Anyways if you wanna play casually you still have some options though. For instance doing 5v5 subwars, dueling outside your capital city or dueling arena, raiding Orgrimmar/Stormwind or just doing premade BGs.
Regarding the solo queue issue, well they clearly stated they won't implement such features in the near future since they're focusing on fixing bugs at this moment, but they also said (well, Malaco did) AT features are under development and will be added eventually.
I agree KrispinWah, fixing the glitches is with a higher priority and this is how it should be. I hope eventually they will add it though.
@ Pallzdani - you are correct, however you should make the difference between discussing something within the community and the so called "QQing". Mature and intelligent people discuss the topics and problems which are faced by the community itself, they do not "QQ" as you stated. At least I am trying to have a discussion, are you? After all, the server is here for the community, not as a separate organism, as without the community it's own existence becomes obsolete.
@ Pallzdani - you are correct, however you should make the difference between discussing something within the community and the so called "QQing". Mature and intelligent people discuss the topics and problems which are faced by the community itself, they do not "QQ" as you stated. At least I am trying to have a discussion, are you? After all, the server is here for the community, not as a separate organism, as without the community it's own existence becomes obsolete.
I am aware it is a discussion, I was stating that many other threads about this topic are just QQ threads, I guess I just worded it wrong. But in all fairness there is no point in discussing it, in another thread that I will look for later and link, they said what you have now is basically what you get, with a few minor changes to come. I don't see SoloQ as a minor change, and when the mods say something isn't happening we all know that no amount of discussion or QQ's will change it. If you like casual PvP just come over to Nelth.
@ Pallzdani : did you ever play soloq? why are you so against it? it`s just 3v3, which is very less played atm on warsong. More fun and more balanced than 2v2 on cata. It doesn`t replace 3v3, and it is not compulsory. I think you`ve heard of these before but you just don`t get it or you don`t want to. What are you hoping to achive with all the counter-soloq comments? Just refrain yourself. It doesn`t affect you in any way.
@ Pallzdani : did you ever play soloq? why are you so against it? it`s just 3v3, which is very less played atm on warsong. More fun and more balanced than 2v2 on cata. It doesn`t replace 3v3, and it is not compulsory. I think you`ve heard of these before but you just don`t get it or you don`t want to. What are you hoping to achive with all the counter-soloq comments? Just refrain yourself. It doesn`t affect you in any way.
The same can be said if you don't ever get solo que. Sides Solo que is absolute crap as you get matched up with random people then if your team loses your other members can end up putting you down. Solo Que makes 3v3 so unrefined and not coordinate as well.
@ Pallzdani : did you ever play soloq? why are you so against it? it`s just 3v3, which is very less played atm on warsong. More fun and more balanced than 2v2 on cata. It doesn`t replace 3v3, and it is not compulsory. I think you`ve heard of these before but you just don`t get it or you don`t want to. What are you hoping to achive with all the counter-soloq comments? Just refrain yourself. It doesn`t affect you in any way.
Please quote anywhere that I was against soloQ. Loved it on WoD, but face reality, it's just not going to happen here from what i've heard.
And agreeing with Romz on a pserver there are a lot of toxic people, one newbie to pvp might try some casual soloQ, get some glad on his team who thinks he's god, they lose (probably the newbies fault) inc flood of hate from said glad to poor newbie. I have seen it happen and when whispering the new guy he basically said he never wanted to come back again. One possible future glad and competition gone, coz of toxic kids. On live its x-realm so after the arena its's very hard for them to /w you and they just don't seem to find it worth
but yet there`s like no 3v3 playing on Warsong. On AT the "toxic people" area was below 2k. If you haven`t played at least 2.1--2.2k you probably wouldn`t like it. And if you can`t handle it, you don`t have to play it.
but yet there`s like no 3v3 playing on Warsong. On AT the "toxic people" area was below 2k. If you haven`t played at least 2.1--2.2k you probably wouldn`t like it. And if you can`t handle it, you don`t have to play it.
Then get 3v3 active. It's not up to the staff to make a bracket more alive (unless of course there was something so ****ed up about it that only staff could fix)
And no, there's toxic people on everywhere, 1k-2k-2.8k
But it should NOT be as attractive as it was on AT.
Eg.: top5 should not get gladiator Titel, just give them some random pvp titel, so that the focus is still on 3s.
Also don't let ppl cap with soloque! This is a way how u can:
1. Keep starters away that think they can simply cap with soloque while destroying others Rating
2. Keep at least 2s alive.
Also, when mogs, mounts and all this extra stuff are here, don't make it obtainable with soloq rating.
And agreeing with Romz on a pserver there are a lot of toxic people, one newbie to pvp might try some casual soloQ, get some glad on his team who thinks he's god, they lose (probably the newbies fault) inc flood of hate from said glad to poor newbie. I have seen it happen and when whispering the new guy he basically said he never wanted to come back again. One possible future glad and competition gone, coz of toxic kids. On live its x-realm so after the arena its's very hard for them to /w you and they just don't seem to find it worth
Soloque got a MMR-System like every other Braket, so Glads will group with Glads and Newbies with Newbies. And when a Glad play on Newbie MMR cause new char or something, then they would not wonder why the mates will fail. And btw it worked great on AT and everybody (Newbie's & Glads) leave positive feedback for this feature.
Soloqueue was the best thing i've ever seen in a private server, it made you able to spend a good while as casual pvp. Because if you look for people for 3s you find the same noobs that in soloqueue.
Besides 3s in an empty bracket btm, no one plays that in a low populated server. It forces you to lf people, meavy you can be +2 hours lf people just to do 2 arenas and leave. Just same **** that in retail. Anyway, in AT there were solo q and normal 3s, so i don't see the problem in adding it, those Molten ****ters shall kept the server just like Wotlk one.