Well... It's dead Jim.

[zeopower6]

I just leave the queue on while I level dragoon/gather/craft.

It doesn't seem so bad... I get at least one pop every 20-30 minutes without dropping it.

[Buff_Archer]

Something I've wondered.... is part of the slowness due not to the lack of being matched up with enough people across all GC's, but due to the availability of enough Instances. What I've noticed queuing for dungeons is it will fill up the party- tank/healer/DPS at 1/1,1/1,2/2- and say Waiting for Instance for quite a bit longer than I'm used to. And I can't help but think the reason is because of all the bots standing around the Uldah Aethyrte I see queued up popping in and out of instance constantly. So in addition to bots causing QoL issues in so many other regards (RMT and running an uninterrupted spiritbond farm using the same characters in North Shroud for over a year now) they're taking up our instances. I don't know if PVP shares server capacity for instances with dungeons, but if it does that's part of the problem.

One way or another, I don't think there seems to be enough instance capacity. You can't tell me that in the evenings it takes over half an hour to find enough people across all GC's, across all worlds in a data center, to kick off even an 8/8/8 instance.

I haven't so much as seen any kind of acknowledgement from SE that the queue times are considered as a problem, but when it's my time being wasted I do consider that as a problem. I can't imagine a more effective way of killing off PVP than what the current state of things has brought us to.

[Red_Wolf]

PvP was somewhat alive last night. It was nice. Thank you for coming back.

[Firepower]

I've never done Frontlines because of these queue times, I don't have the time to waste waiting to try something when there is lots of other duty finder stuff I could be queuing for. I remember back in FFXI when they had Ballista, it was "Grand company" restricted where there would be a battle between 2 of the 3 main cities, and anyone from the third would be auto sorted into both to balance the teams numbers out, if there was an imbalance of too many on one side it would shuffle a few over to make the numbers even, why can't they do that here, just shuffle some of the Maelstrom to the Flames after 10 minutes and start the battle instead of waiting over 2 hours for your turn to come around.

[Anty]

i tried several times, even the daily, and i had qs up to 3 hrs (i forgot i was even DFing, since i was working etc.)
before it was around 10-20 min depending on the time of day.

first thing that really keeps ppl and also me from trying
- i have almost a full 110 set for my whm, still im lvl 30 so i cannot equip it.
( i do like pvp but i dont need to get rewarded when gear is way outdated)
- i was hoping the new pvp daily would give pvp points to progress faster, also i hoped for a bit more points to rank up faster. - i mean you can gear a character to 130 faster + relic in the time you get your pvp lvl so you can wear 110 only....
(that is due to wait times mostly) but what do we get? poetics and soldiery? ---- esp. poetics are capped on day one or 2 usually (not even playing a lot) and poetics come fast with everything else. WHY?

most games i played with pvp content reward the players accordingly or at least on par (or just slightly less) with endgame pve players. in ARR we still are at ilvl 110 and the lvling process takes just way too long. i dont wanna play for weeks just to get 44 and buy outdated gear.
- i wouldnt mind a longer grind if the game was slower but we get new i lvls so fast that it just doesnt fit to the pace of the rest of the game at all.

[Hyrist]

Aether was lively all this weekend. There were portions of time that I got instant queues. Other times, the wait could be as long as a half hour.

I do two things that, when solo, I do to help my queue times.

First, I hit up Roulette, that lets me fill both Secure and Slaughter if they are available.

Second 'Join in Progress' lets me jump into matches that are less than five minutes old and help fill slots there.

These two choices get me in quickly.

If I'm going with more than myself, I just queue Savage - that's the most popular mode right now.

[morerancor]

5 hrs of actively trying to get a match, result 0. I quit pvp.