I'm a little curious why people think separating 'in progress' from 'new start' dungeon would affect anyone other than 'in progress' fishers. They insist it's because people will join 'in progress' dungeons alone, and then no one will que for a fresh dungeon.


But that's not the way that would work at all. Simply put, by making it so they would only que in progress, you would effectively remove people who are already negatively affecting the que. The people who are que fishing aren't genuinely part of the que - they aren't there to help, they are simply seeking to serve themselves and are NOT making que times better.

The best plans are posted throughout this thread.

Hide the que progress
Disadvantage: Tanks will still happily join -> Quit and eat a 30 minute debuff when it's not at 2nd / 3rd boss. There's enough to do in this game as-is. This also has the issue of the fact that if you get the que fisher and he just leaves, then you are now stranded at the very start of the dungeon without a tank. Most tanks at that point that joined in progress will continue to leave, thus you may very well have wasted your entire que for nothing.

Separate the que's
There's really no disadvantage to this that I can see. If you say it's because 'people will no longer que for a fresh dungeon', I think you're wrong. I think people will happily que a new dungeon, and will be happy they don't have to deal with fishers withdrawing 50 times anymore.

Moar buttons!
Why not make more buttons? Why not make it so that you get two buttons button - 'Join in Progress Only' and 'New Dungeon or Join In Progress' that determines which que you get put into? That way, Fishers don't have to fish, and fresh starters can start fresh, and those caught in between will not be affected.