Tired of the Join Game timer? Try quitting!

It looks like the game join timer is handled locally - which means if you exit the game completely, it gets cleared. So, yeah, quitting might actually help!

If your computer is fast enough, you can quit the game all the way down to the Blizzard launcher and fire it back up again - once you do, the game join timer is cleared and you're free to join a new game. My rig is a few years old now and underclocked, and can exit and boot back to the game menu in ~30 seconds, so it's occasionally worth it.

Or, uh, we can just wait. Or do an extra Shenk run or something before leaving the game.

I do this constantly since they implemented the timer. But it was a gamble when there was the old Que because id save n exit just to re-enter to a 50-100 person line. DOH

Yeah, the queue made this a non-option for a while. Now that the servers are beefed up/the playerbase has shrunk/they've fixed it, though, it seems like a safe bet.

Man, that sounds like a good idea, I just updated the rig not so long ago, ill try it today.

This is amazing considering I spend a decent amount of time staring at that timer, cheers!