When you queue up for the scenario, what do you get? 1 minute queue, maximum. I ussually get almost an instant pop. Why is that? No roles matter.
For LFD or LFR we need to wait for healers or tanks, this is what slows down the queues for most people. While me myself I have not a direct problem with this, since I am ussually tanking, but I was thinking, how to solve this for the others or even for me, when I wanna queue up as a damage dealer.
First of all, we need to answer a question. Why is there so little healer and tanks?
I am interrested in what of these two is right, or more right:
- People do not want to gather gear for this roles, because out in the world they spent majority of the time in a dd spec
- People are afraid to perform this role (healer or tank)
Solution:
- If the right answer is that people are afraid of healing or tanking, I currently have nothing to add here. My solution is aimed at people, who just cba to gather the gear.
- What if, you could queue up for a "virtual" role. This could only apply to classes, that could either tank or heal, of course. Let's say you are a warrior, right. You are Fury for PVE and Arms for PVP. There is no space nor gear for you to perform the tanking role, but you know how to tank, because you have tanked in the past. You also have a basic understanding of the tanking rotation and tanking mechanics.
When queueing up, you could check an option, that you would like to queue as a virtual tank. Upon entering the instance, you will find yourself in a predefined tanking spec, with a basic tanking gear, everything of this would be temporary and limited for the time beeing in the raid.
For developers, it will be required to set these predefined specs noob friendly, but also to satisfy skilled players. It should be easy and well organized, I think it is not that hard to find a nice solution that would fit most players and after seeing it for the first time, people wouldn't have problem working with it again.
I believe such an option would let many hybrid classes queue up as some virtual roles, to speed up queue for themselves, which would speed up the queue for another 24 people as well.
Do you think such a system, or at least the very core idea of this would help? Can we expect something like this in future?
One step for this has been done - you can receive loot for the spec you are currently not performing. Half of this system has already been implemented and I am kindly using it most of the time - queueing up as a tank, looting for dd spec.
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CQP Catch-up was introduced for people to catch-up easier into ongoing season.
Wouldn't it make a bit of sense to introduce something similar for Valor points? |
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gg moderators
*** So this is how you care about the community lately, be deleting event threads? Really awesome work. |