What's up with 50 bracket?

[Makiah]

Just curious as to why I've seen rank 30's queuing into the 40's bracket. Is 50 bracket that bad?

Some r30's I've been asking say it's because they're farming points but to me it seems they like to farm the bad players that just start PvP. Maybe a steady rate is better than losing some in 50 bracket?

I'm just curious because I'm grinding hard to get to rank 30 and I don't want to do it just to play in 40's all day.

[Kaleido]

I play with some r30s sometimes in 40s just because they are friends and want to play with me. I'm sure some just do it to farm newer players or those with less pvp abilities at their disposal. At other times it may just be bad queue times in 50s.

Also please stop queueing with blaise. It would be nice to have him on my team sometimes. Healing against you guys sucks when im solo queued.

[Zabuza]

As far as I know most r30s queue in the 50s bracket, where their gear has the advantage. Queueing in the 40s bracket won't net them any gear advantage whatsoever, however the advantage in terms of PvP abilities would still be there. To me, there could only be two discernable reasons for a r30 to queue in 30s/40s bracket.

1. They have one or more friends who want to play that bracket instead of 50s.

2. They've been getting their butt kicked in 50s bracket against other r30s and want a fight they feel they can win.

[AlotaDamage]

i been rank30 for awhile now and i ALWAYS qued for 30s,40s and 50s. 90pvp gear dont do anything for you in 30cap so go do the lvl 28 dungeon for gear or buy from the marketboard.

[Epistane]

MMmmk, Most of us here are from Primal DC.. Theres a lot of different reasons:

1. Undergeared Level 50 Players that are trying to get marks for PvP gear for the 50's bracket so they don't get crushed by r30s/geared PvP players, so they queue in 30s or 40s

2. To play with friends who aren't level 50 or to play with friends who are 50 but are undergeared

3. Queue Times... Which imo has been TERRIBLE for lvl 50s lately in Primal DC.. This is especially true for ranged DPS.. I waited this morning to PvP on my bard for 50s bracket for 80+ MINS, I just gave up. And yes I know about duty finder bugging out sometimes, but I relogged, requeued multiple times prior to the 80 min wait to make sure, dead serious.. Seems like the queues are getting worseer and worser everyday..

IMO reason number 3 is the biggest reason for me and fellow Rank 30 Behemoth pvpers.. queues are just insanely long, while queues in 30s and 40s are usually 1 min-10 mins

@Makiah Altho, reason I was queuing in 40s bracket at the time was cause my smn was still lvl 42, lol. I had intended to solo queue farm my smner's pvp gear with my bard in 50's but dem 30+ min queues...

2. They've been getting their butt kicked in 50s bracket against other r30s and want a fight they feel they can win.

Lols nawww. Queues are TERRIBLE right now, if ur not a healer then queues will take u ages for level 50 bracket.. and even then with a healer I still constantly get "More than 30m" Average wait times.

Queues were never this bad pre 2.15. Usually 5 min queues back then.. sigh =/

[Zabuza]

This is true...I forgot that queue times for a ranged dps are much longer than melee. As melee dps I wait 5 minutes at most. Is this because there are 3 ranged dps classes as opposed to 2 melee dps classes? Or perhaps more ppl wish to play ranged because if you play a melee dps you have to deal with the server delay so not many wish to play melee dps? Maybe a combination of the two.

[Megido]

Theres 3 ranged classes. Only 2 melee.

Bard - faceroll. Ranged without getting interrupted every hit.
Smn - Hit everything at the same time from range while having pet do damage for you automatically as well
Blm - Sleep.

Melee - weapon throw once a minute. Lose all tp from sprinting, lose uptime through server delays, get binded from blizzard through a wall.
Dont get me wrong i think my monk is amazing but comparing it to stuff like marauders (noobslayers) or bards and summoners i can see why the melee player pool is smaller. Im enjoying the short queues and harder playstyle however.