- Author: Shadostruct
- Date: January 26, 2023
- Updated: January 26, 2023
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
Two changes are going through for those who enjoy a bit of player versus player competition with their Warcraft. First, for our Oceanic sisters and brothers, some good news – when the queue time is taking too long the queue finder will automatically expand and look for matches with the Americas. This should be a great improvement to queue times in that region!
The second change will allow you to make a cross-realm group and queue for both Arenas and Battlegrounds! Have a friend you wanted to PvP with but your characters are on different realms? No longer a worry! Just group up and queue!
Read on for the original posts below.
We’ve seen data and feedback from players on Oceanic realms that they have had very long queues for PvP activities, so we’ve decided to make it possible for them to queue into games with their counterparts in the Americas. This configuration change was made during maintenance today.
The PvP queue system will continue to prioritize matching players with other players in the same region, but if it can’t find a match within the same region in a reasonable amount of time, it will extend the search to include players from both Oceanic and Americas realms.
The change was put into place after Arena Season awards for Season 5 were assigned. It was necessary for us to keep the two regions’ leaderboards separate until after the final rankings were determined.
Thank you for all of your feedback and enthusiasm!
With a configuration change that is now live, we’ve made it possible for cross-realm groups of players to queue together for Arenas and Battlegrounds.
For more information on how to create a cross-realm party, see our Support Article here 177.
Good luck out there!
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