Aether wolves den solo queue event

[nickx]

Seems like it was a busy week for a lot of people, so we'll try this again next week. Sorry amigos

[Tarta]

Can I join as rank 27?

[nickx]

Most players that do solo queue are usually rank 40 and higher. However, we've had players with lower ranks get into the games before (they might have to wait a little longer in queues), so you're still encouraged to queue and participate.

[Slib]

We are making a slight change - instead of queueing as english language only, please queue as french language only. Everything else remains the same.

I never understood why we would que away from English? Isn't the goal to get more people into pvp? You are preventing faster ques for those in english who try to pvp!

[Blubbers]

I never understood why we would que away from English? Isn't the goal to get more people into pvp? You are preventing faster ques for those in english who try to pvp!

It's entirely because the duty finder is dumb. If we can guarantee enough people of all ranks are queuing, it makes sense to have everyone just queue English. If it's mostly high rank people queuing, then if someone who is rank 14 queues up, it will "lock" the queue for whoever it matches them with. Let's say I'm rank 14, and everyone else who queues is rank 50.

I queue up, and 3 other 50's get matched on my team, our total rank is 164. Every other team that forms is all rank 50, so they have a total rank of 200. The "164" team won't get paired up with any other teams right away because they're too low, so they will likely have to wait 10+ mins for duty finder to give up and expand the search to match them with the other "200" teams.

Queuing English allows for a lot of low rank random people to queue in during these events, potentially taking 3 people out of the event for 10+ mins and locking the queue while other people get insta-pops. If we all agree on japanese, then all the rank 50 people in the know will queue up Japanese and we'll all get instant pops all night.

If we can get enough people of all ranks queuing up, this won't be an issue at all, but with the low population and the way the way duty finder works, if we can't guarantee a huge crowd one night we'll swap languages.

[Holicccc]

I asked for the change, mainly due to having ppl wanting to go back to it. Yes we want to get more ppl into that's always been the goal, the ranking system that se has given us has hurt more than it has helped us. But I will leave all the decision making to Yall, as of last week my gaming time has taken a hit and I can't keep up meeting everyone's needs, this is why Nikoza has taken the reigns and im glad he has. So work with him and decide on settings, times etc. Hope to see you all soon!

[Houston009]

When is the event this week?

[nickx]

This Friday, September 18th, at 8pm EST, ilvl80 sync, French Language. I also announce these events on pvpreborn.com if you haven't checked it out yet.

[Etiken]

Well I am somewhere around rank 25 or something, I cannot remember. I will be on at 9est and hopefully ill be able to join you.

[Tarta]

Well I am rank 28 now, but I doubt I'll reach anywhere but rank 29 by the time event hits.