Quote Originally Posted by Nyarlha View Post
I still get almost instant queues as DPS (at worse 5 minutes) for expert roulette. It would NEVER have happened during StB, back then DPS queues were at least 15/20 minutes long. We have more tanks and healers than we had in post expansions.
This is the bottom line I think most players don’t realize. The devs want short queue times before anything else. If tank or healing jobs are complex to play, it might be fun, but if few people play them then that complexity is undesirable.

This is a big reason games like Guildwars have thrown roles out the window, allowing each job to spec somewhat, but ultimately each job is self reliant. While fun, it feels less like a party based MMO and more like playing 3D street fighter. It works in GW, but with the trinity being so core to FFXIV, the Devs gotta do what they gotta do to keep active numbers up in those two roles.