Thumbs up to new preform AV enabler!
I heard that the recent version of Preform AV Enabler had the ability to queue people for BGs other than AV. It does, but it has drawbacks. But at least it doesn’t take 45 minutes to get into a preform group.
We went in with eight people to start, and added a ninth. Unfortunately for that person we only did one BG because I had other things to attend to (like cooking a delicious salmon dish with a citrus reduction sauce).
Here’s what the window looks like for the leader:
Notice four columns with four sets of buttons. For us, we queued for WSG, AB and EOTS (as you can see). We had to drop AB and WSG before we all got into EOTS about 10 minutes later.
My personal opinion is Blizzard shouldn’t have screwed over the PVP guilds to begin with but we have to live with it. This is better than waiting 45 minutes to get into a bg.
If you are going to queue like this, you probably shouldn’t try with more than 10 people. The spaces available are far fewer comparable to group size than AV. If you try to get even 20 people into AV there’s a decent chance after a few queue cycles. If you try to get 15 into a 15-man BG, it’s probably better to queue as a group and wait the 45 minutes for a certain matchup.
But it seems queue times have gone down overall. Maybe it’s because of the daily quests. Or maybe the new PVE content. I really don’t track that stuff, but once it wears off people will be back to PVP.
This was taken when the AB queue popped above.
EOTS battle pics below.
Once we got into EOTS it was like old times again. We capped three, and the Allies put up a valiant fight at Draeni Ruins.
We were clearly outnumbered for a good 10 minutes, yet our healers kept ressing and coming back.
Spot the healer…
Overall it was a great time! It’s just unfortunate that Blizzard ruined our play style. Something has to give eventually and I think it’s the casual PVPers who will pay the price.