Battlegrounds MMR

Viust

ZOS, you are literally 'killing it'. After last patches BG became unplayable. What is BG for me now:
1. Wait for a match >30 minutes (~a month ago it was 2-3 minutes);
2. Play vs 2 teams with at least 3 generals-orverlords in each;
3. Obviously, your random teammates (<600CP) starts leaving;
4. Going to #1.

IDK, may be it's still playable as a group - but solo with a good MMR (I guess) it's just a waste of time.
For me BG is one of the main reasons to play. Was.

Please, stop your 'improvements'.

Canned_Apples

It's actually better now than it was before the most recent patch.
~5minute queues.

Asardes

I played about 10 games last evening, and the queue time wasn't that long, 5-10 minutes or thereabout. But I did see a steeper increase in both opposing and own team player skill. I'm unsure if MMR is calculated by account or by character, but if it's the former it makes sense, since this is the 10th character I bring to BGs and many of the previous ones have a BG counter in the low 3 digits.

Qbiken

ZOS should definitely prioritize shorter queues over "more competitive games" if you ask me. A month ago when MMR was bugged and didn't work was the most pleasant time I've ever experienced in BG's. Sometimes I would be up against 2 full premades and it would be horrible, but the next game I could be up against complete randoms I've never seen before. I don't really care if the game I'm about to play is "competitive" or not, since BG's aren't competitive in the first place (since the reward system is garbage), as long as I don't have to wait more than 4-5 minutes for a game.

The fact that you get "punished" the higher mmr your character has by getting longer and longer queue times is just ridiculous.

Asardes

I don't think MMR has much to do with wait times to get into a BG. In fact as it got later I got shorter wait times, and the wait time wasn't correlated at all with the skill of the players. For example I got an almost instant pop just past midnight and the game was 2 pre-mades against my team which contained 1 grand overlord, 1 former emperor and 1 Unchained. It was quite a nice match, we came 2nd and I was 2nd overall from the team (few kills, lost of assists, damage & healing done); next game took almost 15 minutes to pop and it was a steamroll deathmatch where we won easily, with the other 2 teams barely reaching 150. Personally I don't care much if I don't win, if the match is good and I get beaten badly, because that's how I learn combos not only for the class I'm currently playing, but other classes as well.