Dps long Que why!

[am0n]

Why are the queues for DPS longer? Because the ratio of DPS queueing to Tanks/Healers is greater than 2:1 (2 DPS:1 Healer:1 Tank is a normal group). This isn't something SE can fix. It's a player created problem, literally.

[bardaboo]

The only way I can see this being fixed is if they increase the difficultly and added more dps slots. Making a 5 or 6 man dungeon run. Which would be great.

[EmberRaine]

The only way I can see this being fixed is if they increase the difficultly and added more dps slots. Making a 5 or 6 man dungeon run. Which would be great.

I sent a suggestion in for this a few weeks ago. I suggest everyone else does the same.
6-man dungeons would take the queue times down a bit since you'd have a larger dps to tank ratio.

[Pikachew]

I sent a suggestion in for this a few weeks ago. I suggest everyone else does the same.
6-man dungeons would take the queue times down a bit since you'd have a larger dps to tank ratio.

Wouldn't work, even if they adjusted the dungeons this would just put a bigger burden on the tank and the healer.

[Asuras]

Why are the queues for DPS longer? Because the ratio of DPS queueing to Tanks/Healers is greater than 2:1 (2 DPS:1 Healer:1 Tank is a normal group). This isn't something SE can fix. It's a player created problem, literally.

SE can fix this pretty easily. Make their tank classes more interesting to play. Add more tanking classes/jobs. Problem solved.

[OPneedNerfs]

SE can fix this pretty easily. Make their tank classes more interesting to play. Add more tanking classes/jobs. Problem solved.

It's not about the "interesting". It's about majority of people preferring to not feel responsible for when bad things happen. Tanks also dont stand out. You either live through it or the group wipes. Sadly, the only ones who understand the importance of tanking well are tanks.

[Asuras]

It's not about the "interesting". It's about majority of people preferring to not feel responsible for when bad things happen. Tanks also dont stand out. You either live through it or the group wipes. Sadly, the only ones who understand the importance of tanking well are tanks.

I disagree. More people will play tanks if there were interesting tank classes/jobs. Whether they tank well or not is irrelevant. If SE released Samurais and Dark Knights as tanks, I guarantee that there would be more tanks in queue. Paladins and Warriors are just not interesting. We have all seen them before in multiple MMOs. Alternately, the White Mage and Scholar are actually very interesting healers; and if SE decided to trash them altogether and replace them as a standard Cleric class wielding a mace/shield with no offensive capabilities whatsoever, I would think nobody would want to play them and you would instead have insta-queues as a healer.

[OPneedNerfs]

I disagree. More people will play tanks if there were interesting tank classes/jobs. Whether they tank well or not is irrelevant. If SE released Samurais and Dark Knights as tanks, I guarantee that there would be more tanks in queue. Paladins and Warriors are just not interesting. We have all seen them before in multiple MMOs. Alternately, the White Mage and Scholar are actually very interesting healers; and if SE decided to trash them altogether and replace them as a standard Cleric class wielding a mace/shield with no offensive capabilities whatsoever, I would think nobody would want to play them and you would instead have insta-queues as a healer.

More people will CONSIDER playing tanks if they were made more interesting. This doesn't mean they'll pick it over DPS roles as my point states, it's a matter of mindset in the end. There's a difference between someone simply wanting to try out tanking and someone dedicated to tanking and making it their main role. The latter will need to invest more time in both gear and strategies that will benefit the group. Even if assuming more people DO play the more interesting tanks like you suggested, it'll most likely be people who are already tanking and wish to try something new, there will be a very small increase to the overall numbers of tanks. The majority of the community of MMOs just prefer to DPS instead of tanking or healing. Like you say, healers currently are interesting, yet we aren't seeing a huge influx of them compared to DPS. Same logic will apply even if tanks became "more interesting".

tl;dr
People who want to tank, will play a tank regardless of how "interesting" it is.
People who want to heal, will play healers regardless of how hard it is.
People who want to deal damage, will play DPS even if the aforementioned roles are more interesting.

*Note: the DF Roulette may help with que times cause if i understood it correctly, they offer tomes to 50s that que for them*

There's a problem with the DF Roulette though. What if DPS at 50 queue for roulette? Wouldn't it worsen the already congested queues for DPS who aren't 50?

[Dale]

It's not about the "interesting". It's about majority of people preferring to not feel responsible for when bad things happen. Tanks also dont .

I think Asuras is right. It's a lack of interesting game play.

For example: I wanted to be a warrior when I first started playing this game. I loved the way their Artifact looked. But I was so bored I was about ready to quit the game before I even reached level 20 trying to play it. It was just dull to me. Very repetitive and mindless. The disciplines of Magic were the only classes that appealed to me.

So I think more people would play a tank role if they expanded their game play to appeal to more people.

In other words: it's not that we don't want any responsibility or are lazy. It's just that we want to have fun. And the current tanking classes in the game just aren't much fun to play for many of us.

[OPneedNerfs]

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DoM simply have more rotations up till 20 compared to tanks. That's kind of the way it works with this game. Monks, DRGs and Bards are also facing the same thing pre-20.

To say that tanks are boring simply because they didn't have many skills to use in comparison to DoMs who actually have access to skills that they use all the way to 50 at an earlier stage is not really good at all.

I would say that it is more of a case of you preferring interesting combinations of skills and effects which is what you won't get playing any tanks, conj, lnc, arc, pug up till 20.