Duty finder is a joke

[lun4tic]

It takes 80-110 minutes for me to find a group for AK or primal hard mode, and the average wait time is never higher than 20 minutes. Who the hell is getting into these dungeons so quickly? Why the hell does anybody who's been grouped already just watch people drop in and out? Just fill the group and get it moving.

Or maybe it's time to make healers and tanks a lot less frustrating to play, so we'd see a few more?

[Tupsi]

People wanted this system of everything possible being an instance instead of an Open World MMO with segmented instances (think FFXI where you have BCNM/Instances for important stuff outside of world king spawns.)

So no matter what, as long as we use a content finder this will be an issue - yes, it's an issue in every other populated MMORPG as well.

[gamesmart]

Who the hell is getting into these dungeons so quickly?

Tanks and healers.

It takes 80-110 minutes for me to find a group for AK or primal hard mode

Welcome to the world of DPS. There's plenty of other stuff to do while you wait.

Or maybe it's time to make healers and tanks a lot less frustrating to play, so we'd see a few more?

They're not that frustrating to play, but I haven't reached endgame on anything other than a DPS, so I wouldn't know about that.

[AnkoYaoi]

While the Duty Finder does have it's long wait time, it's really just another way to help people find a party. Normally you would just have to shout in the other MMO's I played so.... I find that the Duty Finder isn't suppose to be used to just *click* then wait for hours. If anything, build a party up while using the Duty Finder, I'm sure you will find better results.

[Arriverderci]

Tanks and healers.



Welcome to the world of DPS. There's plenty of other stuff to do while you wait.



They're not that frustrating to play, but I haven't reached endgame on anything other than a DPS, so I wouldn't know about that.

As most know, Tanks and Healers are generally the most boring to play.
Heal - heal heal heal, debuff, heal.
Aggro - No cool looking skills, just sits there and takes hits.
People wanna spank than tank or heal. Quit making those 2 classes a snoozefest to play you may have more healers and tanks.
Also the two most difficult, you have to think on your feet and the moment people blame the tank or healer, they stop playing.

[Adamm4231]

Shout for a tank to get some insta-queues. I am always willing to jump into a DD or healers party to speed up their queue and im sure you can find some on your server

[Onnslaught]

Well I have a 50 monk and a 50 white mage. My monk queues have never been over 50 minutes for anything (AK is the longest queue). It usually takes 10-25 mins for the monk queues. My healer queue is usually 5-15 minutes... I would suggest finding a group on your own server if you can't bear the duty finder queues but I have never had to wait as long as you are, even on my dps job.

[Adamm4231]

As most know, Tanks and Healers are generally the most boring to play.
Heal - heal heal heal, debuff, heal.
Aggro - No cool looking skills, just sits there and takes hits.
People wanna spank than tank or heal. Quit making those 2 classes a snoozefest to play you may have more healers and tanks.
Also the two most difficult, you have to think on your feet and the moment people blame the tank or healer, they stop playing.

I dont think its that people think tanks or healers are boring to play...I think it has more to do with what WoW has done to those 2 roles. What i mean is....in WoW if you are a tank or a healer and you screw the smallest thing in the world up during any fight in the game, you instantly get bashed non stop and usually vote kicked out of the party you were in.

[Rochetm]

I dont think its that people think tanks or healers are boring to play...I think it has more to do with what WoW has done to those 2 roles. What i mean is....in WoW if you are a tank or a healer and you screw the smallest thing in the world up during any fight in the game, you instantly get bashed non stop and usually vote kicked out of the party you were in.

Same thing happens here.. just can't get kicked.

Just tonight I had an ACN that had never played healer or tank telling me how bad I was, changing my marks, refusing to follow the marks I put up, and just generally being a dbag. My favorite part was being called gimp while having the best gear in every slot but one.

How many people really want to play healer/tank, get told you suck, your job is easy (see this topic ^) and if you don't do everything perfect you deserve any number of insults. Now bad dps (which these guys almost always are) are free to get away with it.

[Hagito]

Something could be done with the duty finder to get people interested on helping either with healers or tanks, I mentioned this suggestion before it could be something like this:

Before you que, in the Duty Finder dungeon information it would display what % each role is being played, the one that is lower either healers or tanks would display an announcement stating if you join the instances you have selected with the lowest % role the duty finder will reward you with, let's say 20% more gil, exp, or even, tokens. 20% is not a lot yet it is something that would encourage people to play other roles than dps all the time. I know it would encourage me to level up my white mage for two reasons:

1. Faster que times
2. Better rewards for playing a role that is missing

In the end, it is a win-win situation, people get their runs faster, and those who helped it to happen get 20% reward (or whatever % you find fitting).

Hope this gets looked into, atleast review it mods. and show it to the devs.