Penalty for going to the toilet ...

[StouterTaru]

You seem to be misunderstanding the concept of a queue. If you're in line at the post office, you can't "pause" to go the the bank and pick up your same place in the line with the same people when you return.

But if I go to get a haircut, and there's a 25 minute wait when I walk in, I can put in my name and go next door and eat without losing my place in line.

An indefinite pause would be too easy to abuse, but a 5-10 minute hold wouldn't be unreasonable.

[Jamillion]

But if I go to get a haircut, and there's a 25 minute wait when I walk in, I can put in my name and go next door and eat without losing my place in line.

An indefinite pause would be too easy to abuse, but a 5-10 minute hold wouldn't be unreasonable.

In the case of a haircut you're waiting on the barber who presumably knows how long he will take. With a duty queue you're waiting on other players. 7 people shouldn't have to wait for one.

[StouterTaru]

In the case of a haircut you're waiting on the barber who presumably knows how long he will take. With a duty queue you're waiting on other players. 7 people shouldn't have to wait for one.

And they wouldn't have to. It would just be a matter of changing your status so you don't get matched with a party/instance.

[Jamillion]

And they wouldn't have to. It would just be a matter of changing your status so you don't get matched with a party/instance.

That is literally the same as withdrawing.

[Lexia]

And they wouldn't have to. It would just be a matter of changing your status so you don't get matched with a party/instance.

That the same thing as withdrawing and requeueing when you are back.

[StouterTaru]

That the same thing as withdrawing and requeueing when you are back.

Except it's not.

Say you're number 4 on the healer queue list for Diadem. You hit the pause button, walk away for 3 minutes, and 7 healers have entered while you were away. You unpause, and you're next in line to be paired up.

Yes this could be horribly abused, so there would have to be a time limit on the pause before it times out, it would have to be done before your pairing starts for an instance, and there would need to be a limit on how often you can use it.

It could also kick on/off automatically when getting a CS for a quest.

[Lexia]

Yes this would be horribly abused,

There I fixed it for you cause there no could be you know it would be abused

[StouterTaru]

Jumbled words

5 minutes to unpause or you are removed from queue
can't use pause again for another hour
can't use pause if you are in the pairing/reserving instance stage

Where is the abuse that would come from this?