First of all i absolutly vote for the choice of solo/group queue thats a positive change for me but there comes problems with that change you might not thought about carefully enough.
Right now - if you only need chaos ball for achievements you still have only the chance of 50% to get chaos ball mode. That makes it already annoying enough to farm that achievments in my opinion. With the upcoming change your chances are a lot lower to finally get your desired mode. Because you can not do the same thing you could do in dungeons and just make a group and travel to the dungeon you want to clear/farm/whatever instead of queuing for it.
So here is my idea to make that battleground search a positive experiance for everyone:
Allow a multiple choice on the different modes (random with extra bonus or any constellation of the other modes) that every player can select before entering one of the queues for both upcoming queues (solo or group). In that multiple choice window make it visible for everybody that wants to queue how many players are searching for specific modes right now (this can happen with true numbers, or can happen with the same system we already have for existing players in cyrodiil campaign)
That way every player can see how long it will possibly take to find a match in the desired mode.
In addition to that - and i hope you already do that - fill up missing players for this specific modes with players from the random queue.
That way we have the best from both queues merged into one final queue that can later be still limited if needed in a incremental patch like if you queue for chaos ball you also have to queue for artifact mode - if needed to get battleground matches in a faster frequency. But i highly doubt that this will solve any problems - just use the random queue players wisely to make every specific queue faster.
I hope this posting will be read by the devs like
@ZOS_RobGarrett who can possibly think about implementing that change before markarth goes live, because i am quite sure, that the battleground queues will decrease after a little while after markarth is gone live, becaue nobody gets their favorite modes often enough. If somebody already posted this or a similar idea - sorry i did not find any before i started to write this posting.
Edited by Gamer1986PAN on September 21, 2020 12:26AM