Duty finder queue seems broken.

Ever since the latest patch I've noticed the duty finder seems worse than ever. I primarily queue as healer or tank (I know, I have it much easier). A queue that might say less than 5 minutes sometimes take 15 minutes or more.

The job slot icons keep alternating from full to missing someone back and forth, making the queue take much longer. Sometimes the queue stops at full party for minutes before commencing (I noticed this in Wanderer's Palace when farming zodiac drop).

Also the old issue of getting pushed back to the bottom of queue after a failed commence. The people who clicked commence should stay in the same queue and the duty finder should just find replacements to the persons who did not click commence. As it is now you can be queueing as solo for minutes after a failed commence.

The duty finder is one of the primary ways to play this game and it should work flawlessly. While the withdraw abuse was fixed with the recent patch, it still needs some serious adjustments.

Theres no point in doing dungeons since hunts.

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Originally Posted by t-a-l-a-n-m-e-r-c-e-r

Also the old issue of getting pushed back to the bottom of queue after a failed commence. The people who clicked commence should stay in the same queue and the duty finder should just find replacements to the persons who did not click commence. As it is now you can be queueing as solo for minutes after a failed commence.

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You don't get kicked to the bottom, you're at the top of the queue after the failed commence. If it worked that way, dps queues would be godawful.

Other partial groups can start up while you are waiting, and after the failed commence these partial groups can take away your healer/tank. It definitely should be done differently, though.

The point in doing dungeons is to play the game. Not everyone is 100% after the shinies, you know.

I noticed something like this, but prior to patch 2.5. I posted about it Here. We kept going from nearly full, to being the only group in the queue. I'm not sure why either. As mentioned in that post we had a full group, but when we queued less then full it was very quick. I'm not sure how the DF works, or if it's working as intended.

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Originally Posted by Drako

I say full premade but this is just a full group. We just did ST and waited maybe 10 mins max with a group of 5 of us. Then we decided to get a full group from our FC and been waiting forever. It's almost like the DF server keeps rerouting other people to other groups or something strange. Is this normal?

http://i.imgur.com/JnQtQvW.png

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Judging by the "average wait time" I don't think this is working like it should. The DF server expected us to get in fast with a full group. Yet everytime we had a near full ally in the queue, entire groups would drop off and go somewhere else.

Had this myself last night, qued as blm for brayflox 30mins had passed still no party (just 2 dps showing) requed and got insta pop dafuq.

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

You don't get kicked to the bottom, you're at the top of the queue after the failed commence.

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While its true that you are not getting kicked to the bottom, its also not true that you stay at the top of the queue.
Or how would you explain that sometimes DPS have to wait 5 or 10 minutes again after someone did not accept?
Sometimes my friend (tank) and me (healer) try to queue up at the same time for trial roulette, so we both get into the same group, but it happens alot that someone doesnt accept and my friend gets a insta invite again, and i have to wait 3 more minutes to get me an invite again.

In WoW this system works perfectly fine, but here you get ripped off your group pretty often if someone declined.

Its called the HUNTS. If your not light farming your Q might be 5 mins. On heals or tank.

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Originally Posted by Charisma

While its true that you are not getting kicked to the bottom, its also not true that you stay at the top of the queue.
Or how would you explain that sometimes DPS have to wait 5 or 10 minutes again after someone did not accept?

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Read the rest of the post you quoted...

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

Other partial groups can start up while you are waiting, and after the failed commence these partial groups can take away your healer/tank. It definitely should be done differently, though.

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Originally Posted by Zfz

The point in doing dungeons is to play the game. Not everyone is 100% after the shinies, you know.

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He asked for the reason why queue is slow and hunts is the answer. Everytime I wanna do something I ask my in game friends and always always always get the same answer "can't, doing hunts"
So I end up sitting in that 30 min queue for expert roulette alone.

I havent done hunt since new patch but your post assumed I am going after the shinies just like everyone else.

The queues can definitely break. it's risky, of course, but sometimes dropping out and re-queuing is much faster.