Discouraged by Que timers

[Penthea]

Last night, Friday night after work - so prime time, I tried to do MSQ Roulette. It said 20 minutes. Okay whatever. This is already a huge time sink but I decided to just play a mobile game on my iPad while I wait. Well 20 minutes comes and I'm still 19th in line. 30 minutes come and I'm 11th. I log out.

I've had similar experiences trying to que for whatever the highest dungeon is (for me, Doma Castle right now). I know this isn't popular content but I would hope there are 3 other people in the grand scheme of the game that might que for this in less than a half hour.

As a healer I have had to wait over 20 minutes sometimes when I queue for a specific instance. You're being very optimistic to expect under a half hour as a dps.

Levelling roulette is okay but also can take up to 20 minutes.

That's normal for a dps.

I've been trying to level my Dragoon (presently 68) and boy is it a chore. Early on I would work on my hunting log to distract me while I wait, but now I don't have that and there isn't much content I'm interested in while waiting. I don't enjoy crafting, and there is only so much I can do in my apartment.

There is way more you can do than just the hunting log or crafting. Beast tribe dailies, fates, clan hunts, gathering, treasure maps, gold saucer games, make new glams in the glamour dresser, bard performance, duels at the Wolves' Den...and that's just the things you can do in game. This doesn't include other typical things like youtube, netflix, browsing reddit, doing chores, or if you're like me; turn on the switch and play pokémon.

It's really easy to get discouraged when half my free gaming time, or more, is taken up by waiting.

So you left the queue after a half hour. Am I to understand from this that you get to play for only about an hour a day? Everyone is free to make their own choices, but in my opinion mmorpgs are not a good choice to play if you have such little time to game. Forget about doing alliance raids. If you get any of the recent ones completion time can often take more than 40 minutes, and that's without taking queue times into account. If your group isn't the best you could be in the instance for an hour.

I know other people posted in the past that they do housework, watch Netflix, etc. while waiting but this is a bit ridiculous.

It's ridiculous to get some chores or homework done instead of sit around doing nothing but watch a timer in a game? Okay...