Ranked Warzones?

[Donknatterton]

you forgot the most important announcement!

RANKED WARZONES ARE GONNA BE WITH 8 PLAYERS! NICE!

[frmorrison]

You will be able to solo queue into ranked warzones too. There will be a new Tier of PvP gear in 1.2 and it seems ranked warzone gear, and the best thing is the PvP bag system will be removed.

The TLDR is there will be lots of PvP changes, but it will not happen until April.

[Squishei]

From what I remember reading, will try to find the post.

In 1.2 queues will use solo queue or group queue, no ops queue yet until cross-server.
The matchmaking system will use ELO and the ranked warzones will give ranked commendations that are used to buy war hero gear.

[Rynoh]

(03-14-2012 06:57 PM)Squishei Wrote:  From what I remember reading, will try to find the post.

In 1.2 queues will use solo queue or group queue, no ops queue yet until cross-server.
The matchmaking system will use ELO and the ranked warzones will give ranked commendations that are used to buy war hero gear.

It has been confirmed multiple places that 8 man queues will be available in ranked warzones with the launch of 1.2. We won't be able to pick which warzone we get until cross server functionality is added. Also, 8 man queues are ONLY available in ranked warzones.

[frmorrison]

Regarding 8 man queuing for ranked warzones:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthrea...dit3326416

"Just to clarify, since I've seen this question a number of times in this thread. What we said was: Cross-server PvP queuing is in the works Once it launches, it will allow us to do things such as: More level bracketing 8-man premade queuing Ability to queue for a specific warzone. There is no current timeline for this feature, and there's also no guarantee that it will all happen at once, but cross-server queuing will open up a bunch of possibilities for us. Once we have more details, of course, we will let you know."

[Anafiel]

(03-14-2012 11:12 PM)frmorrison Wrote:  Regarding 8 man queuing for ranked warzones:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthrea...dit3326416

"Just to clarify, since I've seen this question a number of times in this thread. What we said was: Cross-server PvP queuing is in the works Once it launches, it will allow us to do things such as: More level bracketing 8-man premade queuing Ability to queue for a specific warzone. There is no current timeline for this feature, and there's also no guarantee that it will all happen at once, but cross-server queuing will open up a bunch of possibilities for us. Once we have more details, of course, we will let you know."

Further down the same thread (page 22 of the thread) From Stephen Reid:

"David was trying to clarify the 'Future of Warzones' section of the PvP presentation, but that's caused a bit more confusion; apologies. I huddled with Gabe Amatangelo about this question and got a definitive answer.

You can queue as an eight-man Operations group in Game Update 1.2, for ranked Warzones only.

In the future, whenever cross-server Warzone queuing is possible, the plan is to allow people to create teams of eight which can be named, etc.

The PvP team is aware of the importance of ranked Warzones and PvP rankings in general, hence allowing eight-man queuing. Apologies again for the confusion. We hope everyone's going to enjoy the feature!"

[Pander Beers]

Also, don't worry about it so much. 1.2 is going to bring us the pre-season of ranked warzones. We'll get a chance to play it as a community and get used to it before rankings get serious.

[Bubs]

(03-15-2012 04:04 PM)Anafiel Wrote:  In the future, whenever cross-server Warzone queuing is possible, the plan is to allow people to create teams of eight which can be named, etc.

They really need to look in to expanding the rosters a bit. Maybe allow 12 or even 16 to a team. Getting eight people online at one time is going to be a nightmare for a lot of people. My guild has about 10 people that want to participate, and the problem isn't that we'll have to exclude two people, but rather that of those 10, generally only 6 of us are on at any given time.

That, or allow players to be on several teams at once so subs and fill-ins are possible. That's if the named teams go through, which I think they should.

Everything else about this looks great. Rated BGs in WOW were a ton of fun, they just came too late in my career for me to be able to play them the way I wanted to.

[Khal'Drogo]

I realize that people are very excited for ranked PvP, but don't forget, this is a pre-season. I assume there will be lots of bugs, exploits, etc. I think everyone needs to be patient while they tweak their ranked system.

I'm not sure how I feel about cross-server queuing. I'm really enjoying the rivalries being built within our server. You'd really lose that with cross-server Warzones.

[Scripts]

(03-20-2012 02:59 AM)KhalDrogo Wrote:  ...
I'm not sure how I feel about cross-server queuing. I'm really enjoying the rivalries being built within our server. You'd really lose that with cross-server Warzones.

I think it depends on how they do cross server Warzones. Everything they've said is that they are going to set the "queue preference" to pull people from the same server first, and then pull in people from other servers if there aren't enough from the same server to fill a WZ.

I agree that it is nice to have server based rivalries. I also think that team based rivalries could also be fun. It all depends on what other things they add to support the team/PvP rankings and rivalries. If they do an armory style web feature with team names, members, servers, etc., that will help build those rivalries.

I also agree it'd be nice to have more than 8 people on the roster for the need to fill that spot at "gametime".