duty finder= hours of waiting to find a duty?

[Thunderz]

level healer/tank

beat all the content

Join a FC as a DD never have to worry again about Q times

[Reuskon]

All I can say, is that it astounds me that people really expected this game to play out differently than all the others with a duty/dungeon finder in it. DPS are always more popular to play, and always will be, yet for some reason, they believe they should only have to wait a couple seconds to get matched up. One solution would to be an NPC tank or healer to fill in the empty spots. Would that make people happy? Also, the duty finder is a completely optional feature. Want faster parties? Join a FC or LS and make some friends to play with (primarily ones that like to main as a tank or healer if you're DPS). I play tank myself, and the longest wait I've had was maybe 15 minutes or so on Ifrit, but I also don't run dungeons more than once, especially if I've out-leveled them.

And if it's bad now, wait til you get grouped with people that only rolled the tank/healer classes for the faster dungeons, and have zero aptitude for those jobs.. that'll be fun.

[radhaz]

I was leveling my lnc, and needed a dungeon run to move on. Qued up for the duty finder. I waited around an hour, quit that and jumped on my war, bam- instant invite. Cancelled that, changed to whm, and another almost instant invite.
Many people that play damage dealers want to deal damage, not have responsibility for making the party work properly. Damage dealing is easy and simple and that fits their play style.

[indira]

It's not the duty finder's fault that everyone and their grandmother is playing a damn dps class.

thats not the only reason, almost all the classes/jobs are DPS. they need more heals & tanks for the next classes.

[Riyo]

thats not the only reason, almost all the classes/jobs are DPS. they need more heals & tanks for the next classes.

You know who are going to level those new tank/heal jobs? People like me who enjoy tanking/healing, not the current DPS who play it because they want to DPS and not heal/tank.

Why would a new tank/heal job make a DPS who already had the choice to tank/heal switch?

[chrismeyer35]

i dont know much about being a healer or a tank, i just like to bust enemies skulls so they dont kill my teammates, i still dont know to heal a group, do they give you an option to heal the group or does it choose the whole group when you choose to heal in dungeons?...thats why i havent tried to be a healer for dungeons cuz i dont want to do anything wrong and get everyone killed

[Hassina]

I play heals, and used to have instant queues. as of the past 2 days my queues have been 20+ minutes.
current lv is 38whm, but this applies also when selecting lowbie dungeons.

[Riyo]

I play heals, and used to have instant queues. as of the past 2 days my queues have been 20+ minutes.
current lv is 38whm, but this applies also when selecting lowbie dungeons.

Seems that most people that ran tanks for instant queues seems to drop off after 30, I suppose they decide that they don't like it. The majority of the tanks that wanted to tank are probably already up past 30 leaving little to no tanks for lower levels.

[gamesmart]

Well, if we do the math, there are... 2 tank jobs and 2 healing jobs (before level 30 there's only 1 healing class), everything else is DPS. It's a pretty big disproportionality that becomes very evident in Group Finder, which is why my friend and I always queue with one of us as a heal or a tank (or we do one of each).

[Mooshywooshy]

Don't worry guys, it will get better when they release Musketeer.... right?

No but really since I've only played tank thus far I get horrified when the wait is over 30 seconds so I cancel out and switch to all languages, then its instant lol.

Tanking requires good gear and has a lot of responsibility on its back so its really something you either love or hate. I don't think them adding another Tank class would make it better in duty finder unless that tank class wore incredibly spiky pitch black no shading armor. Then people would probably play it regardless.