Bruunhild said:
I'm just going to call BS here on you. I sit in queue for hours on end with my guildmates (had a lovely record 12 hour wait from 9-9 with one guy) and nothing ever ever happened. I'm in queue at peak hours every single day. Nothing ever pops. I see the queue time change (which I assume means something happened) but then I'm waiting two hours later for a queue that never pops, meanwhile postponing everything else because I just want to play my twink so freaking much. When the heck are you getting queues?
I guess by rolling alliance I only exacerbated the problem, but since I have never rolled horde in my wonderful 6 years of playing, 60 twinking probably wasn't going to be the time I changed that.
I'm going to go off my timezone, will convert afterwards but this is how I see it.
Timezone AEST (GMT+10/11)
I play until ~midnight - 1 AM
At midnight there is an instance restart. By 8:00 AM Warsong Gulch pops. After Warsong Gulch Arathi Basin pops. Recently (since EOTS queuable by Vanilla-fix) Eots pops next. Then queues are saturated for the day. Repeat the process for the next day.
Since I'm not entirely sure of which time you queue at I will link you to the US 60 twink thread on the official forums.
60's Roll Call - Forums - World of Warcraft
WSG popped ~8 hours before I made this post, or approximately ~5:30-6:00 AM (Australian Eastern Standard Time ((GMT+10)
We have noticed that the 'random' feature isn't so random when it starts up so it will cycle WSG-AB-EOTS then get stuck on AV. To get an AV we'd have to queue for quite a while and as you know, most people simply don't have the patience or are running out.
When the queue is bugged (can queue for instances) DO NOT DROP IT. It will pop regardless. Queue up in ~14-15 hours from the moment I am posting this thread, and you will make 1, possibly 2 of the 3 games that will be played for the day.
It's not wonderful constant BG popping, just three consecutive pops. Better than nothing I suppose.
On a side note, you probably noticed there are a lot more Alliance due partially to the 'ret paladins AV Vanilla account era'. If you don't wish to faction change then by all means don't, just don't whinge if you don't make all three games.