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  1. 08-01-2019 06:13 AM #1
    Yuyuka3
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    2x healers in need, rest tank...
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  2. 08-01-2019 06:23 AM #2
    Kabooa
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yuyuka3 View Post
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    2x healers in need, rest tank...
    Guess that boycott didn't work out.
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  3. 08-01-2019 07:21 AM #3
    Deceptus
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
    Guess that boycott didn't work out.
    First month was nothing but heals in need. There wasn't a boycott, but there was an extreme shortage of healers.

    Even when it does say something other than healer (say tank), I've queued as a tank and had a 5m wait. Switched to heals, instant pop.

    The system isn't 100% accurate.
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    Veteran healers don't care if we need to heal, but right now we don't. We want interesting things to do during the downtime other than a 30s dot and a single filler spell that hasn't changed from lvl 4 to lvl 90.
    Dead DPS do no DPS. Raised DPS do 25/50% lower DPS. Do the mechanics and don't stand in bad stuff.
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  4. 08-01-2019 05:36 PM #4
    LariaKirin
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
    First month was nothing but heals in need. There wasn't a boycott, but there was an extreme shortage of healers.

    Even when it does say something other than healer (say tank), I've queued as a tank and had a 5m wait. Switched to heals, instant pop.

    The system isn't 100% accurate.
    That's not a shortage of healers, though. It's a surplus of tanks/dps (specifically, GNB and DNC). There's a difference.

    The surplus of tanks/dps has since dwindled because people are pretty much done checking out the new toys.

    The inaccuracy works both ways: "Even when it does say something other than tank (say healer), I've queued as a healer and had a 5m wait. Switched to tank, instant pop."
    I wouldn't even say it's inaccurate. It's simply not real-time. So, if it updates every 5 minutes (arbitrary number for example purposes), you see the situation as it was up to 5 minutes ago.
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  5. 08-01-2019 04:51 PM #5
    Jandor
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yuyuka3 View Post
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    2x healers in need, rest tank...
    Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
    Guess that boycott didn't work out.
    2x healer in need is 2x more than it was before.
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  6. 08-01-2019 04:58 PM #6
    Kabooa
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
    2x healer in need is 2x more than it was before.
    Sure, but from my experience as a DPS queuing, aside from the first few days of early access where DPS queues -were nearly instant- (On Aether at least), Queue times are quite normal.

    While 'healer in need' implies the tank and healer ratios are off with more tanks than healers, the difference is not so astronomical that DPS queues have been negatively impacted. It might be unacceptable to a tank to wait more than 5 seconds for a queue, but them's the breaks.
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