120 minutes queue and party disband after first try... Is this a game?

Really? So, I waited 120 minutes in queue to make a single run in Amdapor Keep.
After first boss try, healer left because tank was not well equipped (and not so good, but he can learn).

So let me understand how's possible this be called a GAME. I'm supposed to have fun, I worked entire day (yea on sunday, I'm a freelance), I wanted 2 hours of rest which involved 2 hours of FISHING, which possibly is even MORE BORING than just waiting in queue.

After 120 minutes of queue party left? I find a bit URGENT to put some new instance server, actually the situation is insane.

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Servers have little to do with your queue time if you're DPS.

The ratio of DPS to tanks/healers is far out of whack with the actual ratios needed for parties. DPS queues are long because there aren't enough tanks and healers to fill out parties for them all.

I actually prefer the teams that aren't well equipped to be honest, it makes my role as the healer that much more fun and interesting :D

As a healer the average wait time for me is 45 minutes to over an hour.

The hell? I haven't seen a que of over 40 mins as DPS for AK...

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Originally Posted by Polaritie

Servers have little to do with your queue time if you're DPS.

The ratio of DPS to tanks/healers is far out of whack with the actual ratios needed for parties. DPS queues are long because there aren't enough tanks and healers to fill out parties for them all.

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We spent around 40 minutes "reserving instance"... no server issue? I know I'm dps but never seen anything longer than 45 minutes before.
However, if queue do not start for everyone, the queue KEEP GROWING, so instead of 45 minutes queue you get 120.

Longest queue I've had as a tank was about 10mins so far, every other time it was pretty much instant with duty finder.

I was expecting a thread like this tonight.

For some reason the queues are very long, I usually find a group in about 30-40 minutes, there must be a problem with the duty finder since I never got this issue even though I'm a dps

I even tried to requeue, thought I was bugged lol

As a DRG you must be in queue at like 4am or something. I haven't had a queue over 35 mins since launch.

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Originally Posted by Polaritie

Servers have little to do with your queue time if you're DPS.

The ratio of DPS to tanks/healers is far out of whack with the actual ratios needed for parties. DPS queues are long because there aren't enough tanks and healers to fill out parties for them all.

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Or tanks and/or healers are running through dungeons with friends and/or FC-mates. 'Cause I know that is the only way I'm going to tank or heal in this game.

As Dragoon, my average wait time in the DF is 60+ minutes.

Are players no longer trying to enlist from their own server first? Be sure to ask
once in your LS/FC, then shout in either a town or at the dungeon entrance, also
be sure to LFP and use the player search function.

After you've exhausted those, then go to the Duty Finder, The whole point of DF
is to match you with people that also want to do that content. If nobody on another
server is queu'd for that content, that matches your party setup needed, the queue
will take a long time. You can also enter DF with a partially formed party form your
server and it will finish the rest out (cutting your time in the DF) Hope that information
helps! I too have had some long wait times before, but we try to help in our FC when
we're able.

If you're just entering DF by yourself, it may take a while, because the match up is first
come first serve and there is a long line of DD

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As a healer the average wait time for me is 45 minutes to over an hour.

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As a healer my average wait time is approximately 15 seconds. Are you playing during off hours?

I think this is also why WoW and a number of other games have 3 DPS per group instead of 2... it helps make the game support the actual ratio of Tanks/Healers to DPS. Yes, SE can try to adapt the player base to their game by making playing a tank or a healer more appealing, but I kind of think adapting the game to fit the players might be a better idea in the long run.

Giving tanks/healers lower repair costs would be a good start

I can add 44 minutes "reserving instance" as a healer (scholar)

so a main part of this is due to the fact that everyone is FATE grinding to 50 and at 50 they already have the quest to rank up by doing AK and many people jump right into AK in AF or less and do not have the gear to make the demon wall DD requirement.

I have had tanks that cant even stay alive for the first trash pull, ones who just are not equipped (skill or gear) to handle this place yet, and I have stayed with some of them, full 2hr run (not including wait) to not finish it before timer, its not fun.

I use FC and rarely need more then one from DF now, and this works best. ONE inexperiance learning AK player is ok, but 2-3 isnt worth the time.

Also, queues are very long as max number of concurrent AK are being hit it seems since full groups have 15min+ waits to get an instance reserved all weekend

find a tank or healer to leech queue time off.

Yeah, I've been stuck in the que "reserving an instance" for a good 50minutes

1.register for duty during peak hours
2.continue questing while registered for duties
3.run fate while registered for duties if you ran out of quests
4.???
5.profit!!!

My avg wait time is less than 5 minutes as a PLD.

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Yeah, I've been stuck in the que "reserving an instance" for a good 50minutes

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Yea i think the instance server was having the same issues yesterday too. what we did was drop queue, get somebody else wh isnt bugged to join, queue for something else, cancel it, then have them leave the group and try again.

People in this thread are missing the problem.

If you get the "Reserving Instance" message, it means your party is full. The duty finder has already made your party, you are just waiting to enter the instance because there are too many simultaneous instances running.

The problem is that amdapor keep is the only efficient way to farm mythology tomestones and since you can only get 300 per week, you have to run that dungeon at least 8 times a week.

They probably have the instance capped where it is for stability sake, and the instance already lags pretty bad as it is. So simply increasing the cap on simultaneous connections isn't going to really solve the problem.

What they really need to do is create other ways to get mythology tokens that are equally as effective. Personally the difficulty of hard mode primals I think could justify a few more mythology tokens. Especially considering people can clear amdapor in about the same amount of time it takes to beat a hard mode primal. It would seem that the number of mythology tokens given from primals was set pretty low to account for the fact that you already already get primal weapons as a reward. However that doesn't really seem like a justifiable excuse when you consider most people that win hard mode primals will just be using relics at that point anyway.

The reason your wait is so long is because 80% of players are DPS. There's simply far too many DPS for every 2 to have a healer and tank. That's why the queue is long... nothing to do with instance servers (unless they happen to be lagging or broken).

There are a lot of jerks that play MMOs. A LOT of elitist jerks too. I never give up an instance unless we run out of time (I'm a tank on my main character). If you want less chance of jerks (still not guaranteed), then you need to make your parties manually through the party search and shouting.