Cross Pairing Queuing

[Ghostbear]

Posted on the Warhammer Herald (http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=334)

Greetings!

Your feedback is very important to us and it’s always our goal to make your play experience an even more enjoyable one.

In response to popular demand, you’ll now be able to queue for all of the scenarios available in your current tier, across all three pairings. For instance, if you’re in Nordland, you can queue for the Nordenwatch scenario as usual. You can also queue up for Khaine’s Embrace (the Tier 1 scenario in the High Elf vs. Dark Elf pairing) and the Gates of Ekrund (the Tier 1 scenario on the Dwarf vs. Greenskin pairing), all without leaving Nordland. No travel is required at all; just click the WAR symbol on your interface as you normally would, and use the arrows at the top of the window to scroll through the different scenarios.

We know many have been waiting for this feature and we have a lot more great additions coming on the horizon. We look forward to your continued feedback as we work to take WAR to the next level…WAAAGH!!!

[aileron]

Oh thank christ! This is welcome news.

[danielOut]

And the Dwarves gathered around, holding up their shields and beer. And thus the drunken cheer arose. And Order saw this this was good, and that many noobs would be pwnd. Aaaamen.

[fishbang]

Was it necessary before this to travel to the physical entrance of a scenario to queue? Even for the one in your current tier and pairing?

[danielOut]

No, but if you were in the Dwarf/Greenskin pairing you couldn't join the que for the Elf pairing.

However, anyone in the party could add the party to the que. So we just put someone in each pairing, and thus joined all six ques.

[fishbang]

Well that's leagues beyond where we started in WoW - having to travel to the physical location, which was always out in BFE somewhere, and likely in an area with very little to offer for your level range.

To be honest, this is actually better than what we have even now - traveling to a capitol city to queue at a battlemaster, rather than free-queueing from anywhere via the interface.

[danielOut]

Oddly enough, in WAR the only place you CAN'T que is in the capitol city. I'm not sure why.

[aileron]

That's because the cities have their own instances when they're under siege, iirc. Though to foster community, it'd be nice to allow people to congregate in the cities and queue for all the T4 stuff.

[danielOut]

Does T4 include the 40s, or do they get their own thing?

[aileron]

Does T4 include the 40s, or do they get their own thing?

T4 is 31 or 32 through 40, so yes.

[danielOut]

Weird, would have thought the 40s got their own gig.

Not looking forward to that then.

Though, if it follows the T3 pattern, you can join both T3 and T4 at level 30 and 31, T4 only starting at 32

[Vyzov]

Seeing as how you get stat buffed to that as a rank 38 in t4, there really won't be that much of a problem. My rank 22 tears up the T3 battleground even going up against rank 30s.

[Ghostbear]

Oh man, vyzov last night we had an awesome time taking Talabecland and High Pass. We were like the visigoths and Rome. Our new alliance buddies joined us. It started off as Order trying to take our keep in Talabebland they got all the way to the keep lord and we drove them out, took every Battlefield objective and then took their keep in high pass, it was beautiful.

[Goronmon]

This seems to have really improved the queue times. I actually had a the T2 Elf scenario pop instantly after queuing yesterday.

[Squidbot]

Pfft, euro servers had this yesterday. Catch up :P
It really is a simmple, yet brilliant change. It means I don't have to play Stonetroll crossing ever again.

[Loki]

Best feature ever. Really surprised this wasn't in on day 1.