Don't like DPS queue time? Roll a tank or healer!

[Priya]

No.

I tanked all the way through ARR and most of Heavensward.

I like Red Mage. A lot. A lot more than any other Job I've played in the game. So I am playing it.

I'll just deal with the queues. There is tons of other stuff I can do while waiting for a 50 minute queue.

Go somewhere with this "me me me generation" crap, like everyone who plays a DPS class is some sort of spoiled teenager.

Yep. I've mained healer in MMOs for the past 7 years. I've paid my debt to society, and I want to DPS now; as it happens, I've found one I like.

[Freyt]

I got DRK to 60 for Stormblood. Once it released, I got to the endgame fairly quickly, and I geared myself to i314 within a week or so. I will keep DRK geared for any time that I don't have any tank/healer friends available to do content with, so that I can roll through content quickly. Even then, I often get asked by them to tank, so it works out. Whenever I get the chance, I use Red Mage, since it is genuinely OP as heck and I can pull groups through what would otherwise be a failed attempt at something with it. Today doing Omega there was a severe shortage of healers, and so now that I've geared both DRK and RDM to 314 (drk to 315 now), I will be leveling AST up to 70 and gearing it up sufficiently.

[Tizzy_Tormentor]

Reminds me of people in PVP complaining about having no healers when they wouldn't dare make the change themselves and expect someone else to do it for them.

I perform at my best when I am a DPS and as a healer main from the beginning of 2.X to 3.4, I am thoroughly burned out on healing and am not enthralled with most of the changes, going to try alt a tank, since I am enjoying many of the changes on that front (DRK in particular is a blast in PVP and spamming DA sea urchin is always fun)

[Paladinleeds]

They HAVE to release a DPS every expansion. However, they have already said that 3 jobs was too much for them.

Genuinely curious here, but what's to stop them from releasing say a tank and healer next expansion... I don't see any reason why they have to release a DPS every expansion. They said they didn't release any tanks/healers this expansion because they wanted to balance their current fleet of tanks and healers (though they haven't done the best of jobs so far on that front!)

No.

I tanked all the way through ARR and most of Heavensward.

I like Red Mage. A lot. A lot more than any other Job I've played in the game. So I am playing it.

I'll just deal with the queues. There is tons of other stuff I can do while waiting for a 50 minute queue.

Go somewhere with this "me me me generation" crap, like everyone who plays a DPS class is some sort of spoiled teenager.

Yep. I've mained healer in MMOs for the past 7 years. I've paid my debt to society, and I want to DPS now; as it happens, I've found one I like.

Yep. This. So much this. While I am still likely going to end up maining healer, with Stormblood I also found a DPS I genuinely enjoy. So there's still a chance I could become a DPS main. And while the queues will be frustrating at times, if I decide to switch to DPS main I'll just shut up and put up. I know what I'll be getting myself in for, and I will deal with it and won't become the black mage meme of "Healers adjust" where healers are simply other DPS players who also want to enjoy being a DPS themselves.

[Jijifli]

I'm someone that spends too much time paying attention to what others are doing. When I play my AST, as fun as it is, I can feel when the group isn't performing. I can feel when my dps are doing very little. When I play RDM, I'm more focused on what I'm doing, and it makes runs feel faster and smoother.

I already did SCH in ARR, and AST in Heavensward. I've honestly become so untrusting that I want to play a dps. Not just because it's fresh, but because I'm performing, and the runs feel better. After a couple 1 hour expert dungeon runs I do kinda want to just take the wheel. I'll play AST with randoms more when I feel more trusting again.

[Syfurion]

I'm a habitual DPS player, I know exactly what I've signed up for with queue times. However I do tank, when the mood hits me. I'm slowly starting the process of getting my WAR up, as my PLD is still down in HW territory and I can't be bothered, and DRK just... feels awful with how they gutted Blood Price. I've heard it improves once you get the Blood Gauge online, but even getting to that stage is beyond my willpower at present, and until then it can barely fuel Unleash, much less DA-Spikey Ball.

[Aquaslash]

I have a tank. However I find tanking far less fun than beind a melee DPS. Plus I've wanted to be a samurai since 2.X. I can just do fates on my DRG or craft while waiting for Qs

[hynaku]

I'm a healer and some times still get long que times because of tank shortage. maybe if made healer and tank jobs easer and more fun there wouldn't be so many of them going to dps jobs.

[Nixxe]

OP has a penchant for extreme silliness. Lend him your ear at your own peril.

[Nihonnick]

I'm a healer and some times still get long que times because of tank shortage. maybe if made healer and tank jobs easer and more fun there wouldn't be so many of them going to dps jobs.

Or Maybe give healers a mount to work towards.. wheres the love SE!