Getting the gear is unrealistic

[Sanghelios]

if you que frontlines consistantly.

Thats the way to go. After a frontline game ends, dont just play something else. Queue again for frontlines asap. Besides that, only queue for english language in frontlines. These two things can speed it up by a lot.

[DrOstler]

Thats the way to go. After a frontline game ends, dont just play something else. Queue again for frontlines asap. Besides that, only queue for english language in frontlines. These two things can speed it up by a lot.

Why just english? Searching for other languages broadens your possibilities right?

[Buff_Archer]

Why just english? Searching for other languages broadens your possibilities right?

Yes, but unfortunately not in a good way. It broadens the possibility of being matched up with a tiny number of people who queued under something other than E and then you have to wait forever for enough people to do the same to get enough people in all GC's to compete. A group from my LS was in queue and got a long wait estimate which we never do nights or weekends and after requeueing under E we popped instantly.

[ChameleonMS]

Yes, but unfortunately not in a good way. It broadens the possibility of being matched up with a tiny number of people who queued under something other than E and then you have to wait forever for enough people to do the same to get enough people in all GC's to compete. A group from my LS was in queue and got a long wait estimate which we never do nights or weekends and after requeueing under E we popped instantly.

You misunderstood. The advice was to queue for the other languages in addition English. Not queue for the other languages only.

[Vandril]

You misunderstood. The advice was to queue for the other languages in addition English. Not queue for the other languages only.

Actually, I think you may have misunderstood Buff_Archer. Not sure if it's 100% true, but there's word going around (and has been for a month or two) that queueing for multiple languages occasionally causes you to get stuck in a queue specifically for one language, despite having them all selected, which, in the case of FL/WD, may result in a queue that'll NEVER pop. I'm not sure of the logic behind it or if it's even true, but my own personal luck with PvP queues increased noticeably when I started to ONLY queue for English. It may just be oddly lopsided coincidence, but it's enough to make me believe it.

[Buff_Archer]

Yes, I firmly believe that. My adder premade teams get as close to insta-queue privileges as it gets during prime time (being an underdog GC on server) and if we ever get a long time estimate it's because whoever registered chose all languages. We've unregistered right away, chose E, and went right in. I didn't come up with theory but I believe it, and I think it's easier for the less-full GC's to verify since a party of several of us queueing at once is what it can take sometimes for the match to fill enough to get started (since there's already enough Maelstroms sitting around waiting for us <evil laugh>).

Update- someone who's primary language is NOT E can verify inverse by queueing under that language alone and not choosing E. I'd just make sure you have a good book handy or beast tribe quests to do etc.