🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:46:09 -0400, IYM <nor...@whitehouse.gov>
wrote:

>On 7/23/2013 10:23 AM, Catriona R wrote:
>> 5.4 PTR, I believe. I do vaguely recall that you can queue for more
>> than one different thing now you mention it, I've just never used that
>> so forgot it existed (I only really do LFR or scenarios of the
>> queueable things and scenarios not very often)
>
>That's because you primarily queue and run stuff as a healer.  On my 
>resto druid, I almost never use the mulit-queue ability due to fast 
>queues.  On my mage, I use them all the time.  It significantly reduces 
>the subsequent queues...

Well, it's because I don't do the other things, so since you can't
currently queue for multiple LFRs, it's not an option for me,
regardless of what character I play ;-)

>> Yep, the multiple LFR wings is the big thing for me - I would LOVE to
>> be able to on a Wednesday just tick boxes for all 4 wings and let it
>> give me whatever pops first. Sure, by the time I'm down to the last
>> wing the queue will be as slow as ever, but when I'm queued for 4 at
>> once, chances are good that one should pop quickly!
>
>If it works like it currently does, the opposite will happen.  You get 
>put in a place holder while you are running one.  So lets say you queue 
>for all 4.   Part 1: 5 min wait, part 4: 6min, part 2: 10 min and part 
>3: 15 min.
>
>Again, if it works the way it does now the following happens, provided 
>the queue time don't change significantly:
>
>after 5 min you get pulled into and run part 1.  when you get out, you 
>go back into queue with the 5 min already credited to you, so if part 4 
>is still at 6 min, you only have a 1 min queue time.  When you get out 
>of that, you have a 4 min queue time left for part 2, and then when done 
>a 5 min queue for part 3.   That's of course if the times don't change. 
>  If they grow shorter on any of them, you'll get an instant pop on the 
>next one (which HAS happened to me after exiting a dungeon while a raid 
>was on pause). If they get longer, you'll have to wait out the extra 
>time as you would have done anyway, but you'll have credit for time 
>served.  Big time saver, esp for dps this way as you don't have to get 
>back at the start of the line every time.

Have to say I expected it to work like the LFD/scenario system does
currently, where when you get into any one of the ones you queued for,
that's it, queue over, and you start from scratch again. It'll be
interesting if it works the way you say; that'd be even better tbh.
That said, I'd never do more than one at a time anyway, since I like a
break for recovery before going back into another run, so it won't
affect me. 

I just like the idea of, using your queue times, I'd get into part 1
at the 5 mins wait, whereas currently I might have been queued for
part 3 instead, not being aware that part 1 had a faster queue! Seems
it'll improve things all round, whichever way it works :-)

>> Perhaps they're adding to it, regarding getting people out in the
>> world - I know a lot of people are happy to go out and do other stuff
>> while they queue, but I'm not; I saolo far better in Disc and heal far
>> better in Holy meaning if I'm queued I don't want to go anyplace that
>> I'll have to fight stuff. And I don't like breaking off from something
>> without finishing it, so more often than not, I don't queue until I'm
>> done with whatever I'm doing, and get bored sitting round doing
>> nothing while in the queue lol - faster queues will help loads there!
>
>I'm the same on my healer.  I'm afraid to change to kitty and get 
>involved in anything after queuing as I never can trust exactly when 
>I'll get called up and hate to have the pressure of a 30 sec timer to 
>get into the instance, while I'm trying to survive a fight, then get 
>clear, change specs and gear as you never know if the tank is just going 
>to start running and not even check to see if your ready....  So I 
>usually just do my house keeping and AH stuff during that time. 
>Actually now that I'm playing around with battle pets, it seems a fun 
>thing to do while waiting that you can do standing in your heal spec.  I 
>did however lose/forfeit a couple battles because the queue popped 
>during the pet battle...

Yeah, that puts me off pet battling too, I hate leaving halfway
through a fight so I'd end up cutting it fine and losing the queue no
doubt, otherwise pet battles would be ideal for filling the time! Love
pet battling but not while I'm queueing for stuff, so like you I
mainly do AH stuff but, I can't do my crafting easily, since having my
gem bag equipped means I don't have enough bagspace for loot, sigh...
yes, I *can* quickly run to the bank and swap before accepting, but I
invariably forget :-P