What motivates you?

For those of us who spend a high percentage of our time in Duty Finder, we know that the DPS times are long. Heck, it's starting to show on WHM as well. If you are main DPS, and let's say you're working on Relic/Zodiac. Do you queue all the time as your DPS, or do you swap it with your heal or tank?

In my case, I begin to wonder if I should have just done the Zodiac for tank or WHM since within an hour, I'm probably doing a dungeon two or three times with no drop, and that I must queue on those roles constantly or else I'm not making progress.

There are people with Zetas on all their DPS classes. What drives you to queue on that class only besides getting Light and Tomes?

I'm doing Zodiac for my dragoon. i queue on my war to get my drops and also practice tanking for Dark Knight when that comes out

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And I've made a great bunch of friends in Eorzea, irl meet ups never get old.

Well I usually do stuff between the dungeons and it would be hard to level my remaining classes that are under 50 if I queued as a tank. :D

I queue as DPS because it's less stressful than healing (and tanking, I hear).

Dunno.

I havent touch a single craft job yet since i joined in 2013, quit T9 due to bad people everywhere. The extreme Grind and RNG (feels like RO but even worse) killed my time too.

So i just log in to do some pony farm and cap the tomes per week.~

Eorzea's Next Top Model has been motivating me gear-wise. I leveled Weaver and Bard for particular looks XD

And My Friends have been motivating me to stay in game LOL

And the fact that I just love being a DPS and setting things on fire. Q times don't bother me because the world is beautiful and there's plenty to do while I wait, like work on my book. Or go fishing, or scenic scouting. Or chatting it up with fc members, or working on my book, etc etc.

I'd never even try a Zodiac as a lone DPS. For my NIN weapon, I queued exclusively with my friend who was working on her WHM one. Zodiac is bad enough with instant queues because RNG can screw you over SO hard, add DPS queues on top and - no thank you.

When I get home from work, it's around midnight. My server is usually dead, so there's not much going on outside of crafters selling gear or static recruitment in the PF. I then find myself getting sleepy once content do pop, or I feel forced to play another game.

I did the dungeon drops as my SCH, for my Yoichi Bow

what motivated me was that the bow is the best looking bow in the game and I NEEDED TO HAVE IT.
Even after that 40th run of Copperbell HM where I wanted to murder everyone I partied with,

What motivates me while waiting for those long queues?

Multi-tasking. I like to write as a hobby so I spend my time between duty finder queues (if I am on DPS and when I was doing my DRG's Relic/Zodiac) writing and brainstorming. Some times I just browse the forums, sometimes I do daily stuff (like provisions, challenge log, beastmen quests, Gold Saucer stuff)

What motivates me in general?

To be the best duh!

I did the Zodiac only for the PLD, my main job. But I eventually have leveled all the jobs, and done the relic up to Zenith with all, it's nearly like part of the job quests, and not that hard now to do. I decided not to do the other relic quests for the alt classes when atmas were as difficult as they were initially, and later I have had no time to do them. There are nice alternatives to the relic weapons for the other jobs and I have other things to do.

I leveled the WHM for stoneskin to 34, then later to 50. The BLM for swiftcast then later to 50. Later the ACN (SMN and SCH) for Eye for an Eye, and also to 50. BRD for Quelling strikes and later to 50. Etc. etc. Eventually I leveled all jobs. All are interesting and give you different views of things. You also try to get the gear for all the jobs as much as you can etc.

The first jobs were different, but once the low level and guildhest roulettes appeared, and also the challenge log, it's easy to level classes in your spare time while you cap tomes and get gear and complete content with your main job. I started to craft while waiting for the queues when I leveled the first DPS class (THM), then got interested in crafters, started to level all of them for the cross-class skills, etc. etc. So finally all crafters are level 50. But I don't have the latest gear. I don't need the gil really, I suppose. Maybe when I finish with the gatherers i'll start with the Lucis tools, let's see. Having the cross-class skills was the incentive to level all the crafters. Then the gear to reach 3 stars. Not yet 4 star crafter.

The thing is you can change your focus. You level a crafter, then you are tired, forget about it and level a disciple of war or magic, then later you again level a crafter, or do a beast tribe, and so on. There are many things to do. I try not to see things as chores. It's the good part of being able to cap the tomes without much effort, you don't see the game as a chore. When there were no duty roulettes, tomes were more difficult to cap and it was much more of a chore than it is now.

My last classes to level have been the gathering classes. I started very early with the miner but later left all the gathering classes for the end. Miner will be the last one to level to 50. I don't have just now the incentive to gear up the gatherers to be able to gather the highest items, I don' know if in the future I will, maybe yes.

I got my smn zeta and just gave up on it for my drg. I just can't take a repeat of allllll those steps...even if I could get near instant queue. I'm in awe that people get 2,3, or more zeta.

I main DPS but queue as WAR in T4 for 200 times to get bear mount and also get my ifrit pony as WAR as well.

P.S. If only paladin's mount isn't steroid lion ...

Well necromancy seems to be hip these days. Might as well join it. Plus, its an interesting topic, can share ideas on how to pass the time during long queues.

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To the topic!
What motivates me to play and run DPS? I like the role and think the overall stuff for DPS is just more...engaging I guess.

How do I pass queue times?
Usually I play with my wifey so queues aren't as bad, specially if one of us is healing but if that isn't an option. I'll have an LP on youtube playing or I'll work on a model kit while waiting. (I have a big desk, so plenty of space.) And of course the classic, I'll just craft during the queue time.

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Myself, I just like seeing how good I am. I like a challenge as a DPS to see where I can improve. During queue, I'm usually doing something else like browsing YouTube or Netflix. Sometimes if something about my job of choice bothers me, I'll be looking up guides so I can try things out.

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Until I read your post I was thinking this was a new thread(honestly didn't look at the dates...shame on me).

As for what motivates me, the desire to keep improving myself.

For what I do during long queue times:

• Beast Tribes
• Goldsaucer stuff
• Weekly turn in
• Daily turn in
• Get housing ideas by invading other homes
• Work on gathering items to craft housing stuff
• Work on positioning of furniture
• Play my 3DS

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Thanks for having me! :D Gonna go dig for more threads later.

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Originally Posted by Avatre

Until I read your post I was thinking this was a new thread(honestly didn't look at the dates...shame on me).

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Honestly? I'm surprised these dates are only 2 years old cause I went back to page 1,002 for this.

Also, I guess to refine my reason for playing DPS. With how the game is designed, everything sorta just boils down to DPS. While I enjoy tanking and healing, I just feel there is something more enjoyable in being just pure DPS. It might be that, DPS don't have another mandatory job within their role like healers and tanks, so they can be designed to be more dynamic.

Well it is quite an old thread but whatever.

The reason i'm willing to struggle for so long to get into a dungeon is because I don't feel at ease when tanking or healing. If something goes wrong I always blame myself and put too many stress on me. So I guess they aren't for me.

Now what i'm doing while waiting depends:

1) is it a roulette or whatever?
Then mostly keep doing msq

2) is it a duty required to progress the Main Story?
Then it can be crafting, gathering, gold saucer gate, diablo 3, WoW, YouTube,...

That first week of new content before it gets overplayed.

Hope Eureka doesnt get old as fast as everything else.

"How's Hells Lid? Still fun?"

I play cause its become part of my routine, no joke its just part of what I regularly do (sleep, work, do house stuff, relax, play ff14) sure I mostly only log in for weeklies &/or something I wanna grind for but its always there as a "Desire" to play as I want to... even if I go play other games, the want to get the Weeklies at the lest is always there & I don't even care if I fall behind gear/content wise so I know its not "I must just to keep up".

As for what I do while waiting on DF well... anything I want really (Beast-tribes, crafting, glamour checking, Washroom, anything I have to do in reality, chatting with friends/FC-mates in-game, booting up my PC-Labby to get an update for another game or get a game ready for after, etc.)

Love MMO's...since City of Heroes, enjoy the community, well those willing to listen and respond. You'll always get the default; Elitists, too-casuals, and board gargoyles...but that comes with the territory. Ultimately, SE created a very nice world to run around in.

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