Dps long Que why!

[neverendingxsin]

Every single mmo is like this lol

[Raiadin]

welcome to the world of mmo's young one.

[darzok]

You can never fix the lack of tanks and healers for a few reasons as listed by every other person who has posted so far.

Healers and Tanks are a special kind of player there willing to take charge of the party and put up with the blame for every thing on top of trying to save the party when another player screws up.

There is little to no point adding more tanks or healers since only the people all ready playing them will keep playing them after testing out the new classes.

There is no fix just going form 4 to 6 player party will just stress the tank and healer out more as it adds 2 more people that can screw every thing up and leave you trying to fix there mess.

Hell i have been told i am a bad tank for not tanking both adds in Garuda HM by a dps who don't know the fight.
I had a healer whine him self inside out over my gear saying it was not good enough dispite the fact no other healer had a problem with my gear on the same fight before or since.

Then people wounder why tanks are so rare.

[BobbinT]

Supply and demand lads. It is as simple as that.

For me, I don't mind for long queue when I play dps. I usually do something else like browsing or questing or DoH/DoL or something else to kill time.

I do play tanks time to time, mostly because there's something I want to pursue more often. But I have to admit, playing tanks kinda exhausting. lol
I remember that time when I finished Titan for my relic and only has like 200ish philos to buy the oil to complete relic quest. I jumped to WAR right away and burn 7 dungeons straight. It really burned me out, but I was satisfied that I can finish my relic after that.

Still... it really burns me out playing tank. lol

And there's healer role. I "could" play the role, but I always forewarned my party if they ever decide to force play the role that I'm just an average healer and no speed run stuff. And guess what? Even playing healer are more demanding than tanks.

So there you go: supply and demand. Want to play regular jobs? Get in the line! Wanna quick instance? Take up more responsibility when you tank / heal. lol

Though... I don't really mind tank / healing on lower level dungeons since it's so piss-easy with my relics. lol

[sylin]

Agreed, I played a dreadknight in Vanguard, and it would literally make me want to go to bed after some hours inside a hardcore dungeon.
Although I don't know where I fit into the whole equation, Ive played tanks and supports, but now in FF14 Im a dragoon, I agree that for one I have never and will never play a warrior(boring sounding) , I have played a pally but Im just kind of sick of em. If there were more tanking classes I may roll one IDK.

[Grailer]

If they had double the amount of DPS In a group , imagine using AOE heal .. instant agro .

They would have to rework and balance a lot of things, its not just a matter of increasing HP . For example you could have 2 bards and 2 BLM in a WP speed run with 6 man group . That would be insanely quick vs a group with 1 BLM and 3 melee .

[Freyar]

Healing queues are still too long.

[Archona]

There are plenty of tanks, just no reason for us to use Duty Finder. I've said it once and I'll say it a thousand times, if you don't want to deal with queue times, or other randomness involved with Duty Finder, pay a tank to queue with you (or make a friend on your server/FC/LS...I know, socializing in an MMO may seem out of the box).

[Ishmachiah]

There are plenty of tanks, just no reason for us to use Duty Finder. I've said it once and I'll say it a thousand times

I have a fully geared paladin tank and I only run dungeons with LS/FC or the people on my friends list. The problem with Duty Finder is that the roles that are needed can find groups outside of duty finder much faster and to their specific liking.

Don't like running with Summoners? /sh for a group and exclude all Summoners.
Don't like running with Monks? /sh for a group and exclude all Monks.

FFXI all over again...

[Grailer]

I don't need to run DF as tank , I did it a few times to learn and try out some crazy pulls but in my FC they are always shouting for Tanks and I can easily get speedrun group .

DF just doesn't give me good geared players or good combos BLM BRD WHM combo which is the winning combo for speedrun .