Noob here. For nearly 70k online right now, sometimes matchmaking takes a lot of time, even without priority characters, i as new player trying everyone, so i just pick 3-5 characters i haven't played yet, no priority, some less popular and picked and still have to wait sometimes for 5+ minutes, couple of times it was 15+.
And when it goes to for so long, i have a feeling i am getting thrown to higher ranks than i am, like lamb for slaughter house, once i had game where everyone were better than me in both teams by 2-3 ranks, they all had 20k more souls than i am, but usually it's 2-3 guys for both teams who are so far beyond everyone else and even when there's win, it demands very long game and then defeat him alone with numbers.
70k online, incapable to find other noobs like i am, why? And don't tell there's not enough of new players, there is, there's threads of asking invites, literally minutes ago, game exploded in popularity after old gods update.
Also developers, you need to make fill up system for leavers or those whose game crushes without ability to come back, add some souls for replacement player + whatever leaver/disconnected had.