I've never been so miserable leveling up.

[Cluebilly]

I've managed to get into about 5-10 dungeons total while leveling Rogue and I'm currently 30. You can get in a dungeon, but just be ready to wati at the very least 50 mins with the longest que (For me anyway) being well over 75 minutes

[Mayh]

I'm personally having alot of fun leveling in the NIN train. ^_^ reminds me of beta.

Me too actually. In some small way I had missed these massive zerg-fests.

[psychic-hoodlum]

I had to close to two hours to get into one yesterday...then all the tank wanted to do was talk. Took an hour to get through a lvl 20 dungeon.

[Delily]

Adding a tank would not solve the issues. People who want to tank already has PLD/WAR leveled and would level DRK, meanwhile the ones who didn't level WAR/PLD wouldn't touch DRK or Healers as that's not what they wat to do. So it would be nice..but not probable.

That's not true. I personally am looking forward to tanking as DRK. Neither the warrior nor the paladin really appeal to me.

[Laerune]

This patch made me regret leveling both Paladin and Warrior two months ago.

[Crankysorc]

I solo went as a healer for Hatali and it took 30 mins until I just dropped que because
we're waiting on a tank for days.

A GOOD TIME TO BE A TANK YA'LL.

I've been leveling up my tank on an alt and waited over half an hour for a healer.
There's not enough of either role queueing atm. :P
They need to add roles in equal amounts or make rewards for low level in need better.

[Felis]

SE should have added DRK first or any other tank. DPS has to come together with a tank and healer. Imagine having SAM (tank), NIN (dps) and XX (healer) at once. Would be amazing.

then instead 90% of the playerbase playing Ninja it would be 75%. Still not better.

I can't wait what happen if DRK come out wih 3.0 (or some patches later). Maybe complain threads that the queue time for tanks increased to 10 minutes ^^

[Obysuca]

Me too actually. In some small way I had missed these massive zerg-fests.

The thing I hate about it is being the ONLY one in a massive group of people who are actually geared lol considering nin is squishy, it's not fun to jump on a boss late and end up tanking the rest of it because people can't take 5 minutes to get gear their lvl, so they go in with gear 20-30 lvls under them :/

[MugenMugetsu]

Leveling Rogue isn't so bad. Spam the heck out of Levequests, in the appropriate areas for your level, until you can run Sastasha then, rather than queue and wait forever, make a Party Finder group, /shout, ask people on your friends list, ask your linkshells, or ask your free company mates if they'd like to run with you. If you are only queueing up DF and waiting and waiting and waiting then you're really not making the most effort that you can/could to try and get your Rogue lvl'd as quickly and painlessly as possible. While waiting on queues and/or building a party to run dungeons kill mobs for your hunting log, do FATES, kill trash mobs, if you have a Whm or Sch friend ask if they might be willing to "power level" you while you kill mobs for your hunting log or kill trash mobs that are higher level than what you would actualy be able to solo on your own. For faster leveling you might bring your healer friend along and just kill trash mobs around your level, preferrably 4-8 levels higher than you are and just kill as many as possible as fast as possible.

Basically, if you think outside the box, and make your best effort to level as quickly as possible, leveling any class/job does not have to be a grindfest of sheer boredom that takes forever as long as you apply the right amount of effort to level. If you have the option, get on teamspeak/ventrilo/raidcall or whatever program that your free company or linkshell uses and talk to your linkshell or free company members as you level to make leveling up even less of a chore and even more enjoyable. If you don't have access to teamspeak/ventrilo/or raidcall, set up a raidcall channel and invite whomever you'd like to join you on raidcall so you'll have friends to talk to while you level. Raidcall is 100% free and you can have as many people as you'd like on raidcall with you.

Finally, taking the time to come to the forums and Q.Q about how leveling is taking too long, is boring, queue times are too long, SE should have added both a healer and tank class to make queue times faster, etc. takes away from the time that you could have spent leveling your Rogue/Ninja. In the time it's taken me to post this I could have already gained enough xp to be halfway to getting another level on my Rogue. Anyway, I'm not trying to be negative in anyway whatsoever, I'm simply trying to provide helpful tips to those that may need a little guidance on how to improve the speed at which they level. Keep in mind that the options I mentioned are just scratching the surface of all the available options for leveling. ( ~.ø)b

TL;DR Screw Duty Finder. Make your own parties, or seek other ways to level, and try to make it as fun as possible so that you don't feel like you're stuck in a grindfest of overwhelming boredom!

[Mayh]

The thing I hate about it is being the ONLY one in a massive group of people who are actually geared lol considering nin is squishy, it's not fun to jump on a boss late and end up tanking the rest of it because people can't take 5 minutes to get gear their lvl, so they go in with gear 20-30 lvls under them :/

Well, stop being so awesome! Lol, seriously though.. people are just leveling up soo quickly with these fate trains they just don't want to stop for anything. Most fate groups I've joined have been pure rogue so the Coeurl King fate in South Shroud was a huge pain with all those squishy rogues trying to tank it. I'm hoping that by the time I get to grinding Coerthas & Svara there will be some tanks mixed in the bunch.