The "Casual PvP Problem" (For Tomes and Exp) and Possible Fixes

[RiceisNice]

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What time does your linkshell usually queue? I try to queue up with some friends of mine, although we're only 4-5 out of the pool of 24.

[Buff_Archer]

What time does your linkshell usually queue? I try to queue up with some friends of mine, although we're only 4-5 out of the pool of 24.

Just about every afternoon/evening there's people from our group forming a party. I'd say afternoon to late evenings North America time, if it's one of the more active PVP windows where we're getting queue times of 15 min or less, we'll typically have 1-2 have parties going, and other times it will be less than 8, since it's more of a network to allow people to find others who are interested in partying up at the same (often ad hoc) time rather than a static where we have a set time and fixed groups. We've never come close to filling a whole alliance at once but it's not uncommon that a couple of groups will form up at slightly different times and finally end up in the same game, which can sometimes mean being able to make a bigger difference in the outcome of the game. And something nice about having this kind of network is not having those games with no healers... I've gotten kind of fed up with rolling as scholar in 100% PUG teams and that brings out the worst in me, but if it's a different matter when queuing with people from our Linkshell, and there are some others who alternate between DPS and healer as the situation requires, though of course many prefer one or the other and that's fine.

If there's not a similar network on your server, I'd recommend starting one. Early on I used the Lodestone rankings as a recruiting tool to see who in the same GC/server was playing a large number of matches, and I'd review the scoreboard at the end of matches to see who was from my server, and if they stood out based on any of the metrics (kill count, damage dealt, HP restored) I'd contact them after the match. And once you have a dozen or so people with some of them looking for people to invite, it should grow on its own.

[RiceisNice]

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We do have a linkshell, but there's really no specific time window. I usually do queue after raid time (past 11pm EST), other than that, me and a couple of others would usually jump in around 8-9pm est on non-raid nights. If you have a way to contact outside, we could probably try to hit up some queues.

[Buff_Archer]

We do have a linkshell, but there's really no specific time window. I usually do queue after raid time (past 11pm EST), other than that, me and a couple of others would usually jump in around 8-9pm est on non-raid nights. If you have a way to contact outside, we could probably try to hit up some queues.

I'd be all for getting some cross server coordination going on, having teams queue up at the same time seems like it would have a reasonable chance of getting people in the same alliance. Well the term 'reasonable' hardly applies to pvp queues. A lot of people use TS but being on PS4, interfacing with another device during pvp is a challenge for me, but at least psn does allow people to coordinate without all having to be logged into a TS server that most people wouldn't have an easy way to know when to log onto without any kind of cross server communication.

[RiceisNice]

I'd be all for getting some cross server coordination going on, having teams queue up at the same time seems like it would have a reasonable chance of getting people in the same alliance. Well the term 'reasonable' hardly applies to pvp queues. A lot of people use TS but being on PS4, interfacing with another device during pvp is a challenge for me, but at least psn does allow people to coordinate without all having to be logged into a TS server that most people wouldn't have an easy way to know when to log onto without any kind of cross server communication.

I'm on a PC, so the best way to contact would be steam, skype or TS (last one being the least reliable since it's going to be the same as our raiding TS)