In general, across World of Warcraft, the best gear rewards are offered from content that requires premade groups (Raiding, Arena, Rated Battlegrounds, Mythic+) and not queued activities (Raid Finder, Raids, Heroic Dungeons, Battlegrounds, and Skirmishes). Gear upgrades are also a likely contributor as while Skirmishes do reward Honor and Conquest, they do not offer rating required to increase the item level of your gear. Seeing your rating increase after a big win is a fundamentally different form of progression than earning Honor or Conquest to purchase equipment. Certainly, part of the appeal of Arena is the higher stakes at play when you put your Rating on the line each time you queue up for a match. But for many, Skirmish isn’t an appealing option. Players can queue for Skirmishes either solo or in a party and quickly participate in an Arena match to receive Honor and Conquest. Of course, such a solution exists in Skirmishes. While we are working on improving Group Finder, we acknowledge that there are times players just want to press a button and start playing. While the Group Finder is available, players have given us feedback that it can take too long to find suitable partners with the tool. Many players have a general love for Arena, but their regular partners are not always around to team up. Today, we’d like to share more information and insights on an idea we’re experimenting with in a future brawl called “Solo Shuffle.”įirst, we’d like to talk about the reasons players want solo queue Arena, as we understand them. But we’ve never stopped asking ourselves how we could provide a solo queue experience without falling prey to the problems we foresee with it. We’ve been reluctant to simply apply a solo queue wrapper around the existing Arena format for several reasons. Here's a preview of Solo Queue, an ambitious brawl introduced in Patch 9.2 that should lay the foundations for a solo queue experience in PvP.įor a long time now, those two words have been a rallying cry for parts of the PvP community whose appetite for World of Warcraft Arena is insatiable.

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