This is getting old fast

As a player of a damage-dealing class, I'm not surprised at long wait times. Not just in this game, by the by. There is a shortage of players taking the healer and (especially) the tank roles. Some don't want the responsibility that comes with it. Some don't want the blame when something goes wrong (especially when it isn't their fault). I know that I would certainly try tanking and healing for those that are in my Free Company and Linkshells. Maybe on my friendlist if I feel really comfortable with them. I haven't filled a healing role since I regularly a played a Monk/ Mesmer in the original Guild Wars.

I am not desperate enough to check all the other languages. Now if I were at least passably fluent in basic communication in Japanese and Deutsch. I can sort-of do it in French as I took two years of it in High School, but it's not what's called "conversational French" meaning "the language that average native speaks daily; it's more laughably formal". But, if they don't mind me taking the time for me to mentally translate and recall what I learned some 15 years ago, I can get the gist of what they're saying. I once translated a postcard sent to my mother that was written in French. There was only one word that I didn't know, but based on how it was used in the sentence, I got the gist of what they said.

However, it's probably best that I spare the French/Japanese/German-speakers from my not being fluent in their mother-tongues and not join their parties. Why give them, and myself, the headaches?

tbh honest I think you should take DF as a tool to help you get into a party, if that tool doesn't work you can always resort to the old ways: Shout/PF etc...

Also teaming up with a tank or healer and queing again will cut your waiting time usually! good luck

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Originally Posted by Kewitt

I have no clue what world you people live in.

As a DPS I've never queue for more then 15 mins often less.

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It depends if you're melee or ranged/caster and the time of the day.

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Originally Posted by Cherie

Meh, preaching to the choir :P

We all know ranged DPS queue times take forever.

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As a Monk, my queue time is not longer than 10 minutes. Only content the queue time is longer is CT

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

I used to do that, until I got an all french party. I couldn't understand them and it went kinda bad, and I felt like it was my fault for picking a language I didn't understand.

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I am native German speaker, but when I (with absolutely no previous MMORPG experience) queued for a dungeon in FF14 for the first time, I was seriously asking myself whether it was actual German I was reading :-P

Bottom line: You actually do not have to be THAT good in standard German/French/Japanese to get along, but you have to know the slang. Everything else written is basically beginner and lower intermediate level.

The best party size solution would be to make it 5 man light party, 10 man full party. This is pretty much the party size standard the rest of other MMOs use.

In a light party, this would pull an extra DPS person out of the queue, moving the DPS queue faster. An extra DPS will mean that there is 50% less stress on the other 2 DPS in the party already. The player base would discriminate less on DPS players.

In a Full Party, each already existing DPS would have 25% less stress.

I can't wait for the party list to show TP of all members so that the tanks and healers know how fast Bard AOE drains their TP.

More people are doing duty roulettes with their FC/friends now. That might be the reason for the increased wait time? However, when I register solo as a DPS, I've only noticed a 3-4 minute longer wait time since patch 2.28. On Leviathan, I'd say it only takes about 10 minutes for DPS depending on the time of day.