To all the Tanks 'fishing' for CT instances...

[Phreak]

You annoy the living piss out of me sometimes.

[Yunnie]

Sorry, what does fishing (in regards to this forum post) mean? I've heard this term a lot?

[Duuude007]

It means a tank is trying to instantly queue up in a "in progress" ct so as to avoid the half hour "reserving instance" wait. If they don't get it, they withdraw, resetting 3 parties of queueing players back to the end of the line.

Horrible exploit which affects 23 people, and is entirely anonymous.

I'm a tank and refuse to do it.

[Yunnie]

I don't understand the point of this honestly... That seems like a longer time sink...
I could be wrong here, but playing with rng duty finder as well as loot drops... Idk seems like the only reason someone do this is to troll...
I'm guessing most of the populous think its 1 guy, withdrawing multiple times, but it's probly a bunch of different people that qeued and went afk, missing their que pop.

[Duuude007]

I don't understand the point of this honestly... That seems like a longer time sink...
I could be wrong here, but playing with rng duty finder as well as loot drops... Idk seems like the only reason someone do this is to troll...
I'm guessing most of the populous think its 1 guy, withdrawing multiple times, but it's probly a bunch of different people that qeued and went afk, missing their que pop.

No they withdraw within moments of the accept prompt, long before it expires. Definitely not an AFK situation.

[Shirai]

No they withdraw within moments of the accept prompt, long before it expires. Definitely not an AFK situation.

It doesn't only happen for CT and yes, it does annoy the hell out of me as well.
As a friend of mine once suggested, perhaps the development team should look into implementing a system which rewards Mythology tokens based on how many bosses you have slain in a run.

[darzok]

Its just one of them things you have to put up with i do not see them doing any thing about this problem annoying as it is for us.

[Nalou]

Don't use Duty Finder for Crystal Tower.
Build a 8 man party with Party Finder, and then use Duty Finder to find 2 more teams.
Problem solved.

[Phreak]

Don't use Duty Finder for Crystal Tower.
Build a 8 man party with Party Finder, and then use Duty Finder to find 2 more teams.
Problem solved.

This doesn't solve anything considering any one of the other two teams could include a Tank or even a Healer that is 'fishing'.

What they need to do is what World of Warcraft eventually ended up doing and hiding the progress of the run, make 'join in progress' the norm and not just an option, add in a system that tries to push you into a fresh instance if the one before wasn't.

A few other ideas I can think of would be that if you personally withdraw from a que you must wait 2-5 minutes before being allowed to que again or add some sort of penalty for multiple withdrawls.

[Vactus]

It's always dps that my groups have issues with withdrawal