Rank 40 basically can't get into frontline

So... even after 2.4 launches, I've never been successfully gotten into frontline so far, the queue is always infinite, been waiting for more than 3 hours several times during active hours a couple of times.


Anything I can do to get in faster? I heard lower ranks gets in easier but I don't want to switch GC...

Hi Eclair- I'm on the same server as you and PVP rank 40, and during this last weekend afternoons through nighttime I got 10 minute wait times... whether queueing with one other person or with an entire party of 8. However, being Twin Adders had a lot to do with that, u must be Maelstrom.

If it's any consolation, our premade of 8 Saturday was great and won practically every contested battle, including holding Manors against a much larger onslaught of Maelstrom the entire match... I went 8/0 as SMN in that one with close to 200k damage dealt... and yet all but two times we narrowly missed first place. Which is better than vastly missing first I suppose. Not to diss everybody in the Alliance outside our party, some were very much on point, but seemed like a constant that there were just enough people in the Alliance overall who didn't refocus their priorities based on score distribution properly until too late, if at all. I went into the weekend with 3 games needed to get my 100th win and mount. As of yesterday I needed one. ONE. As of today I still need- JUST ONE F@&$ING GD WIN. So I'm especially frustrated being that close to an award that I feel I've been cheated out of by GC-locked alignment, but once I get it I should be able to really enjoy myself again as long as the party I'm in does its best.

tl;dr- It's possible to queue quickly still during prime time, but at the cost of being on a side with a higher loss rate. This is the reason every Adder I know who's quit after hitting max PVP rank (pre-patch) and getting mount has given me for no longer playing, and which makes me queue less than I would otherwise.... and which ultimately impedes instances from filling so you can commence from your GC.

As far as I know, PvP rank has almost no impact on Frontlines queues. It probably has more to do with your GC and Data center.

I'm rank 41, in the same data center as you (primal), and also even in the same GC (maelstrom) and during the weekend, most specifically saturday, I was getting queues between 10 to 20 minutes (which for anybody who is part of primal maelstrom knows is unusually fast given our history for having horrifyingly long queue times). So like fainto said I don't believe pvp rank really has much impact on frontline queues. The queues sometimes seem to glitch or something where if you leave yourself queued and never re-queue you will see your time queued balloon in excess of 2 or 3 hrs all while people within your same GC are able to queue and participate in a couple of matches during that span. Obviously I have no clear evidence of this actually being a glitch but I usually always re-queue after 30 to 60 min of queue because of this suspicion.

You also want to queue for only english servers, if you queue multiple languages you can get stuck in the queue for an unpopular language where it will never pop

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Originally Posted by Blubbers

You also want to queue for only english servers, if you queue multiple languages you can get stuck in the queue for an unpopular language where it will never pop

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I can confirm this. Only checking english for frontlines definitively makes the queues way faster. Rank doesnt matter on frontlines and i also got queue times of 10-20 minutes on weekend (Maelstrom).

Thanks! That helped a lot! I was totally queuing for every language thinking it'll make it faster.
WELP.