Anyone else having dungeon queue issues?

I understand DPS queues have always been much longer than healer or even tank, but since the new patch, I have been going upwards of 50 minutes anytime I queue as DPS, and 30mins+ as healer.

Has anyone else noticed that queues are extravagantly longer than pre-patch?

It's an issue with EX roulette that's being discussed in other threads. Queue for the dungeons individually and it should be much faster (but yeah, no bonus...).

Only early in the mornings and late in the evenings. But I generally tank

75m + This is completely working as intended

/sarcasm off

btw: this is the leveling roulette I am waiting for. The EASIEST dungeon queue possible in the list.

80+ minutes now.

Please fix.

I've been waiting almost an hour in the dr ex queue...

All my DPS leveling roulettes this week have more than doubled since patch. Currently at 75+ min for leveling roulette.

I haven't had a leveling roulette take more than 30 min in many months. Now it's every day.

I'm new to the game & have been loving it. That is, until I run into the roadblocks that are the dungeon quests of the main scenario. Now, I appreciate encouraging people to do the dungeons as a means of advancing the storyline. I enjoyed doing them & met some great people as a result. However, the queue times have become prohibitive lately, to the extent that it often takes me several days to actually complete the required dungeon/trial, what with the requirements of real life and all.

I've tried queueing for individual dungeons & as part of the daily roulette. Both invariably result in wait times of, at times, several hours. I've been told "get some friends to help". But none of my friends play this game (am I the only one whose friends don't share their interest in gaming?). What about an FC? Tried that but nobody wanted to run old content, especially with the new stuff that's been released recently. I mean, this can't be intended:

http://i.imgur.com/RUrYwTh.jpg

You know they don't mean 'get your real life friends to play and help you', right? Lol. FFXIV has this nifty new feature which allows you to chat to other players! Boy, is that ever so neat and innovative!

Yeah okay, except that people who are brand new to the game don't tend to have that many in-game friends to rely upon. Also, I did use the nifty feature and joined an FC where the ppl were very friendly buuuut didn't want to take time out from new stuff to run old content. Regardless, you have to admit that 7 hour queues are ridiculous.

The patch notes said something about improving the queue algorithm. Me thinks it's broken instead.

"[2.0] The matching algorithm for Duty Roulette has been adjusted to reduce wait times."

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Originally Posted by Subasu

I understand DPS queues have always been much longer than healer or even tank, but since the new patch, I have been going upwards of 50 minutes anytime I queue as DPS, and 30mins+ as healer.

Has anyone else noticed that queues are extravagantly longer than pre-patch?

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It's because everyone is running Diadems. The devs can't do anything about the fact that most of the players love a new feature. Yeesh!...

Daily Duty Finder Leveling Roulette is seriously broken for me. I haven't been able to get one after many LONG WAIT attempts for just a Normal Daily Leveling Roulette.

I wonder if they calculate how many people waited 40+ minutes and eventually gave up? That is really the number they need to be looking at, because it would have increased exponentially.

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Originally Posted by Isondre

All my DPS leveling roulettes this week have more than doubled since patch. Currently at 75+ min for leveling roulette.

I haven't had a leveling roulette take more than 30 min in many months. Now it's every day.

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Well all Tanks are sitting in their 80 mins+ que for Void Ark. So have fun in all the other Content that suffers now even more of missing Tanks. :D

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Originally Posted by Ralvenom

It's because everyone is running Diadems. The devs can't do anything about the fact that most of the players love a new feature. Yeesh!...

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Well lets nerf the Diadem Itemlvl to 195 and see how much the player love the new feature. :D

I've got a question - did devs acknowledged that there is some issue that should be fixed? Because when I join the Duty Finder as a DPS I see my role filled at 1/2 for a minute, maybe few. Then it becomes 0/2 like I'm not even there. Had 50 minutes queues already, today I've been withdrawing few times, but overall waiting for the dungeon to pop for more than an hour.

And I actually feel really dumb. Came back from work, wanted to play some game, but instead I'm waiting for a dungeon that won't even appear. Makes me want to log off and come back when it's fixed.

I'm a DPS, but waited more than 45 minutes trying to get into Void Ark tonight. Average wait time was "Less then 5m" the entire time.

Someone withdrew, restarts from scratch. Still not in after another 45 minutes. Average wait time was 5m for most of it, and just recently went up to 10m.

How is this possible? Seems like that queue filled up after I was bounced and thus I missed my chance, by no fault of my own.

Since 3.0 hit, it seems like the term "queue" is very loose, too - I've frequently had people queue up well after I did, and get in long before I did. And in the same role/job, too.

Additionally, tried queueing up with a healer friend recently, and our estimates were wildly different. Sometimes his were higher than mine, sometimes mine were higher. And the role counts didn't match at all.

Please do whatever it takes to fix this. It's pretty much impossible for me to enjoy the game with the Duty Finder in its current state.

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Originally Posted by shoujoaixiv

I've got a question - did devs acknowledged that there is some issue that should be fixed? Because when I join the Duty Finder as a DPS I see my role filled at 1/2 for a minute, maybe few. Then it becomes 0/2 like I'm not even there. Had 50 minutes queues already, today I've been withdrawing few times, but overall waiting for the dungeon to pop for more than an hour.

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They already stated that it's just a display error, the queue is working normally, so you do not have to withdraw just because it says 0/2 or 0/4 on all roles.

And no, I don't think wait times are broken or not working as intended.
Actually, I never had such amazing queue times since the start of ARR. As a DPS, I get instant duty as soon as I sign up for most content, only leveling roulette is a bit slow but that's to be expected with everyone doing new content instead of leveling up remaining classes in low lvl dungeons.

As a healer, my queue times went up a bit, but still not past 7-15 min for any of the new content. As a tank, leveling roulette is still instant, but I guess that doesn't hold true for something like Void Ark where only very few tanks per run are needed.

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...7eb8348c8a.jpg

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Originally Posted by Atoli

And no, I don't think wait times are broken or not working as intended.

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Two days ago I had a situation, where I've been in a queue for 70 minutes. Withdrew, rejoined and found a team after 15 minutes. I think it easily indicates that something about the alghoritms is off.

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Originally Posted by shoujoaixiv

Two days ago I had a situation, where I've been in a queue for 70 minutes. Withdrew, rejoined and found a team after 15 minutes. I think it easily indicates that something about the alghoritms is off.

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Or it just means if you had waited 85 minutes at once, someone would have been found to do that content with you. Sometimes people don't sign up for what you want to do until WAY later, ever thought about that? Queues aren't long because SE wants them to be, they are long either because
a) no instance server is free
b) no one of the needed roles signed up for a certain duty or
c) too many people of one type of role signed up, so when someone with a needed role signs up too, only one of the several half-full groups gets ready to go and it might not be yours.

Thanks to explorations, b) is very common right now (because why do any other content when you can get perfect 210 loot from there?) and c) has always been and will always be a problem. The only difference is that now tanks are affected too, especially in Void Arc, because there are way more of them than there are slots for their role per run.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Or it just means if you had waited 85 minutes at once, someone would have been found to do that content with you.

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It cannot work like this, because the queue (at least leveling roulette) isn't made of a bunch of people, but hundreds through the whole data center. Leaving queue means resetting your position.

So if the 70 minute waiting line was completely fine, and there was no bug, then sure - I can imagine such scenario, where game really is in bad place, not much tanks play on, you have to wait a lot. And I would be partially OK with it. But that would also mean, that if I left after 70 minutes of waiting then I should wait once more for the whole 85 minutes to get in. Because that's how long the queues for DPS actually is. Getting in after 15 minutes indicates that either system is bugged or that devs implemented some really bad alghoritms that ain't working the way intended.

That only holds true if there actually are hundreds of people in line for the specific content you signed up for. Depending on the time of day, allure of other content and other people also leaving the queue because they think it's broken or simply taking too long, there might very well be only a few people in line, that form parties as soon as one or two people join who complete the usual group setup.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUibuJmWcAAybQV.jpg:orig

Atoli, how much longer do I wait?

Because the queue obviously isn't bugged, it's just that people suddenly stopped making new characters and don't like the most popular way of leveling low level characters anymore.

Doesn't matter that it's US primetime and that before I could find a party in 30 minutes at 5:00 AM. Everything is fine. There is no bug.

Agreed, queue times are way longer then the usual, Guildhests (20+mins) and Leveling Roulette (40+mins), havent tried Trials (due to leveling various alts) , i usually play at the same time everyday and i didnt had any issue before.

**Update**
Played with a lvl 50+ toon:
Trials, Guildhest and dungeon everything worked fine and pretty quick actually.

Went back to the lowbie toon and well, long queue times again. -_-, oh well.