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  1. #1
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    Urazn1's Avatar
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    Meimei Odoriko
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    Ultros
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    Gladiator Lv 50

    FIX DUNGEON QUEUE TIMES!

    It's obvious that there is an abundance of damage dealing classes as opposed to healers and tanks but it shouldn't take an hour to find a group with the duty finder for anything! Broaden the cross-server matching possibilities with the duty finder!
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    Raist Soulforge
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    Midgardsormr
    Main Class
    Thaumaturge Lv 60
    The issue is with the jobs available--if you can't find a dedicated healer, have to wait for one.

    I'm not very good at it, and I never really liked main healing. So, I never planned on leveling CNJ further than what was needed to unlock SMN... but I've been leveling it as we go so that a long time friend of mine and I never have to wait to get into our duty fights. I've gone a few times on a DD while he was on Tank. If after a few minutes we don't get in, we just back out and I job change to CNJ and BAM!, we get right in. Last few fights, didn't even bother--just bit the bullet and went on CNJ and shot right through the first time.

    SE can't do much about the players unwilling to go in there on a dedicated healing job. This is a player driven issue more than a design issue.


    Simply put, need more people willing to heal.
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    Motoka Kusanagi
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    Sargatanas
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    Conjurer Lv 43
    As a WHM for my primary class, even I have to wait in the queue. The shortage seems to be with tanks. More cross server matchmaking would be helpful tho. Or your could play a tank or healer and not have to wait as long. Or do what I do, and have a RL friend play a tank, and the two of you play together. Always insta-queue with a tank and healer ^^. But even with better matchmaking there will always be a wait for DPS. I'd be interested in seeing the ratio, but I'm guessing it's somewhere around 1 tank for every 10 dps, and 1 healer for every 5 dps. Even with better matchmaking you'd still have to wait. But this is just my observation, and we will only know if SE gives us the numbers.
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    Last edited by Mokoto; 10-14-2013 at 09:01 AM.

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    Zei Vi
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    Exodus
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    Gladiator Lv 50
    As a tank, I never wait in queue. At all.

    I am unsure on how broad the queue is but when I play DPS is will take a very long time. I just feel that this game doesn't have many tanks playing, most tanks don't even use the Duty Finder as most have dedicated groups. This is something that will always be a problem for DPS even if the queue is all servers. Everyone plays DPS.
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    Julus Phenix
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    Ragnarok
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 80
    The cross server search is already in place, and servers are grouped as follows:

    -Group 1
    Adamantoise/Balmung/Cactuar/Diabolos/Exodus/
    Goblin/Hyperion/Lamia/Malboro/Moogle/Odin/
    Ragnarok/Siren

    -Group 2
    Behemoth/Cerberus/Coeurl/Excalibur/Faerie/
    Gilgamesh/Leviathan/Midgardsormr/Phoenix/
    Sargatanas/Shiva/Ultros

    The duty finder was splitted on 4th Sep because of "countermeasures to handle the influx of concurrent user counts"
    Sources:
    http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...dd4fe2d529149/
    http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8e3302a04632a/

    Who knows if that countermeasure is still needed, but I don't think it would improve anything. Situation in both groups is exactly the same, merging them back would solve nothing.
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    Nialle Velandieux
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    Leviathan
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    Arcanist Lv 70
    SE can't make more people roll tanks and healers, Meimei. Which is the only thing that can fix the wait times.
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  7. #7
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    Teleniel's Avatar
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    Tele Nariel
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    Goblin
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    Arcanist Lv 60
    Depending on the day/time you're queueing there is also the problem with maximum instances reached... although this is something they have taken steps to resolve and are continuing to take steps to resolve.
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    Connor Stone
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    Balmung
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    Gladiator Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by Urazn1 View Post
    It's obvious that there is an abundance of damage dealing classes as opposed to healers and tanks but it shouldn't take an hour to find a group with the duty finder for anything! Broaden the cross-server matching possibilities with the duty finder!
    they initially had DF to search across all servers but caused way to many problems so they split them up to server groups. the problem is that that there are way more DD looking to do stuff compared to healers and tanks, thus causing the DD queue to bottleneck and causing such large queue times. i have BRD PLD and WAR so i understand your frustration. but when looking for shout groups as a BRD i find it easier to find groups via shout than as a tank since majority shout groups run 1 of 2 party configs 1xTank 6xDD 1xHealer or 1xTank 5xDD 2xHealer.

    this is not something that SE can resolve, in most, if not all, MMO there is more DD than tanks and healers
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    Priss Malina
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    Phoenix
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    Conjurer Lv 50
    Queueing as a healer for CM on prime time (EU) takes 10-25mins.
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    Berthom Sur
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    Ragnarok
    Main Class
    Gladiator Lv 34
    Just to contradict everyone: as a tank, I've queued a number of times - around 45 minutes for Ifrit and 15-20 for the Thousand Maws of Giant Diremite. And I teamed up with a healer before entering the latter dungeon. The waits are generally low, but the grass isn't always greener.

    The only time I've had an insta-queue is with a Conjurer in a low level guildhest.

    I remember BSGO added incentive buffs to unpopular classes (e.g. 50% exp for playing as a Cylon). Something like that might help push people into tanking and healing.
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