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a) 90% of the dungeons have a very long time queve to get a party complete ie. KC, LKNM, LKHM, VoK, DFHM, RMNM, SCHM, SSHM, RMHM; and there are a wide day time that does will get you for hours in waiting, so what is your point?
b) dead times is because the amount of players that runs bg's are a small amount from the total player base, and even the queves on battleground varies depending on your class also, not only the time you try to queve (on every battle arena is h-ell as DPS on queve times and that is on every pvp game with treats like ours). Dead times are also because ppl need to eat, work, go to school, do some exersices, sleep and many more things, so that obviously will give you specific day times when we are going to have much less population on-line and that will cause having less ppl queving = longer queve times.
c) If you don't care then why to argue in the first place?
d) If we have full day power hours this is going to be the same becuase real ppl are bound to do things a mentioned in point b.
Cya and good luck.
Here's one example: it's Friday, you live in Chicago, and trying do to CS.
The Power Hour for it are on Friday and Sunday; 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM and 4:00 PM - 10:00 PM.
Typical working people gotta work from 8:00 AM to 4:00+ PM. Sure you can take 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM Power Hour but you just get back from work and there is pretty much many things to do. By the time when your chores done, there is not much time in Power Hour left and the queue takes even longer to complete.
It is however, different story on Sunday where CS literally popup instantly during Power Hour but still dead outside Power Hour because you know, its Sunday...
CS is a daily quest but now you can only get its reward box twice a week per character you have. How I miss that time where you can do every battleground and able to get win its reward box everyday without worrying what time you are online.
Since this thread is about Power Hours specifically, please stay on that topic and don't turn the thread into a laundry list of different topics.
From what we've been able to measure in the past, any kind of day-long power hour won't spur players to join the queue the same way a burst of extra reward time does. The start and end time for each Power Hour window is designed to encourage more queues to pop within a window, not just reward regular BG players with higher than usual rewards.
wow spacecats replied!
ok yes, the power hours have done a great job of letting new players experience and get addicted to the bg which is great! and definitely i agree was a necessary first step towards improving the situation.
but currently outside the power hours, there's absolutely no chance of a bg popping. players are actually looking at the power hour schedule now and will only queue during the power hour time and stop almost exactly at the end of power hour. the queue can be slow but it must not be totally dead.
i wont ask for much, but request that BABY steps be taken to improve the situation and working towards a 24/7 bg popping for world global domination.
for now i'd like to request an extension of the power hour by just 1 hour and see how things work out.
currently - its 8am to 11am and 4pm to 10pm local eme time
proposed change extension of 1 hour - make it 8 am - 12pm and 4pm to 11pm local eme time
if possible for testing purposes, from 1am to 5am triple the rewards + bonus item (my recommendation is goddess blessing for a win)
i mean this wont be game changing and the queue might not even pop in the first place, but we have to find a balance and not allow the bg to be dead for too long hours as well as it being playable around the clock (this can relate to off peak promotion like how sometimes fast food restaurant have 1 for 1 meals during weekdays/ off peak hours)
just trying to help here, not break the game, power hour is great and necessary but there has been no improvements ever since
for all you know when the knew patch comes, we might just still need power hour couple weeks later.
or even worst, if the rumours are right, bg totally dies when the new patch hits
Great ideas from bhs as always
Well not quiet, this was fixed for Corsairs' Stronghold, where the contribution score doesn't count, but the rest of the battlegrounds... stayed the same. However, as a healer, I don't really mind. I'm still going to queue for every battleground, everyday. That's what I've been doing for the past 3 years being a full-time healer. Also seeing how it has high-tier items as prizes, it would make it a LOT easier on players. They could earn Superior Etching Boxes, Dyads, VM Materials, and even Mid-Tier Gear all while being in Idoneal... so I expect a lot of players to queue.
at least for corsair stronghold now, the queue is popping 24/7!
for non dungeon players, at least there's a bg popping outside of previous power hours!
it has been quite a Looooooooong time since i could queue a bg anytime of the day/night.
I'll keep this post positive and end it with another Thank You.
will we be able to convert current credits?