duty finder wait times

I know that if I go dps I will have a wait for getting a group. however please be honest with your average wait time posted. today on my summoner it said average wait was 5 minutes. so was I waiting 30 minutes today in duty finder when the average was 5 minutes. all I ask is that the real wait time is displayed per job. id like to meet the dps that waited close to 5 minutes in DF that Qd alone. SE needs to slap some the people that wrote the programing for df that calculates wait times.

I waited for almost 90 min for Hydra today on my SMN. But justice was served after that with an insta-queue for Ifrit.

Generally I don't have to wait too long as dps, For high level roulette it's less than 15 minutes usually. That's the only thing i really do in the DF. When I heal it's almost always an insta-queue.

I main a DRG and MNK my wait times in DF is about 45mins to and an hour, CT is about 90+mins for me.

The howling eye hm I waited 60 minutes yesterday. Was around 30 - 45 minutes before that. I'm a Black mage. That 60 minute wait turned into a failed PUG to :( hit or miss on these HM fights.

Ifrit HM seems to be quicker than that.

WP usually isn't to bad, like 30 minutes or less.

Yep the average wait time is always less than what it takes me to get into um.

I hope SE looks at the data on their end to figure out solutions. In the classic FF games there were times when you had differnt party sizes and group compositions. It might be nice if dungeons could be more flexible. Maybe allow upto 8 (tank, 2dps, healer, and the next 4 people in que) in a regualr 4man, but increase mob HPs? I guess that just might encourage fewer people to play tanks?

When i queue for high level duty roulette on my monk my wait is between 5-10 minutes normally.

Yeah, it's frustrating. I was on bard the other night for CT and the average wait time was 23 minutes, yet I waited over an hour.

On average as SMN I wait anywhere from 15-50 minutes. Never really had anything too much shorter or longer. Normally doesn't bother me so much unless I'm on a time limit and am trying to hit up a Daily Roulette before needing to log off before a certain time. Otherwise, I can always work on other things such as crafting, questing, or hunting logs.

Its frustrating to see your Wait time Increase and the Avg Wait time decrease.

I was waiting 22 Min, Avg Wait time of 18 Min, then went to 29 Minutes and Avg wait time of 15. How is that possible? Unless the Queue isn't actually first come first serve?

Average wait time factors in the tank and healer times, skewing the results.

As Bard my avg wait times is always around 45mins
Never tried going in as blm as it may be different

Honestly the wait times are what actually get me to doing the crafting classes. I probably wouldn't even attempt them otherwise. Kind of thankful for them some how.

I've played around with it and I can say that DPS is definitely the slowest for me.
Normally I queue up instantly (within 1 mins anyways) whenever I'm using a tanking class or a healing class. However, even in the end-game for the main scenario, I do end up waiting a fair amount of time as a DPS.

Wait times for melee DPS are a little shorter, in my experience. Some people swear that there's a hidden value in which the duty finder tries to get one melee and one ranged (in four mans) or two melee and two ranged (in eight mans) and that since there are a lot more bards, blms, and summoners, it makes it easier for monks and dragoons to queue.

I'm waiting the 220​​m 'Cape Westwind'
but, Average wait time is 8m...bug?? Oo

i've had a 4 man register for ST and each party member had their own average wait time. PLD said Less than 5 minutes, WHM said 10 minutes, and BLM was 15 minutes and MNK was 30 minutes. we're in a party..our wait time is the same. i get that it's really for wait times for solo queues but still.
We ended up waiting about 10 minutes..that time. same group next day..30 minute wait. for ST. we're half an alliance!

There can't be an average wait time....sometimes queue is full of heals and tanks, sometimes it just isn't. I had to get my 1st Levi clear on healer in DF since dps queue was tragicly awful ( not my main btw ) just to get "kill exp" so I could use PF. Stronk gaem.

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Originally Posted by SummonerSenah

Wait times for melee DPS are a little shorter, in my experience. Some people swear that there's a hidden value in which the duty finder tries to get one melee and one ranged (in four mans) or two melee and two ranged (in eight mans) and that since there are a lot more bards, blms, and summoners, it makes it easier for monks and dragoons to queue.

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Yanno I heard this too, but since I rarely queue with any of my ranged DPS jobs I can't really comment on it. Though I can say my queue times for Monk are often times Healer levels of short :p

As a SCH/WHM I have experienced inst-queues and 40+ min queues. It all depends on the instance.

Fell asleep after an hour and a half of waiting, forgot about it when I woke up, went out, came back, saw this.
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...pse594aa23.png


Lul.

It's actually a lot better than it use to be, however after 2.4 I'm expecting it to get a lot worse due to rogue/ninja. Everyone and their uncle will be lvling them, if I had to guess queue times for all dps will go back to what they were pre-2.1, perhaps even longer.

I happened to turn in the quest that teaches your character the Harvest Dance just seconds before my 1 hour and 10 minute queue popped. I cannot even begin to express how infuriating it was to see "This scene cannot be skipped" when I tried to get out of it.. then frantically smashing the mouse button to skip all the text boxes so I could commence the dungeon before time ran out. I didn't make it.

There shouldn't be anything in this game that prevents someone from being able to hit that Commence button. Nothing. I can understand why Square made the opening scene unskippable, but a quest that teaches your character to dance is not important. Causing players frustration by forcing them to watch something they don't care about is only going to cause a negative experience. How severe of a negative experience is completely up to what was at stake. For most people it will only take up a minute of their time, but for me it wasted my entire playtime for the day.

Please fix this, Square.

it depends, ive queued things many a time with an insta queue as blm. but in general I would say average is no more than 10mins