Duty Finder for DD

[Tirabi]

It's a real pain to use the Duty Finder as a DD. I spend up to and over 60 minutes in the queue waiting for a roulette or dungeon to pop.

How about if you spend more than 30 minutes in a queue you get a bonus reward like tanks get for simply clicking join?

As it is tanks can run a dungeon twice in the time it takes a DD to queue up and run it once.

[KyroeFelix]

What DD type are queuing as?

Melee gets in alot faster than ranged since more people play the latter type of DD. I agree the wait times shouldn't be so long but..it really is a problem we created ourselves.

[L-D-Omlette]

What DD type are queuing as?

Melee gets in alot faster than ranged since more people play the latter type of DD. I agree the wait times shouldn't be so long but..it really is a problem we created ourselves.

Shhh, I like my 5-10 min queues.

[Lemon8or]

Game is lacking tank. If they give the DD bonuses tank gets as well, guess what, it'll take even longer to get a run in.

[Anty]

Game is lacking tank. If they give the DD bonuses tank gets as well, guess what, it'll take even longer to get a run in.

the game isnt lacking tanks i would say. People just dont like to play as tanks as much (flaming dps especially towards new players/new tanks doenst relaly help here).
But the biggest problem is the party size.

The 4 man content is just a bad design.
5-6 man content as smaller parties would make it far better. since you still had only 1 tank 1 healer but 3-4 dps instead of just 2.

I really have no clue why they were going this way creating content.

Yet in situatinos like CT... you have too many tanks

[jars]

the game isnt lacking tanks i would say. People just dont like to play as tanks as much (flaming dps especially towards new players/new tanks doenst relaly help here).
But the biggest problem is the party size.

The 4 man content is just a bad design.
5-6 man content as smaller parties would make it far better. since you still had only 1 tank 1 healer but 3-4 dps instead of just 2.

I really have no clue why they were going this way creating content.

Yet in situatinos like CT... you have too many tanks

well, if you remember FF1-6 they all had 4 person parties

[RazeLandale]

the game isnt lacking tanks i would say. People just dont like to play as tanks as much (flaming dps especially towards new players/new tanks doenst relaly help here).
But the biggest problem is the party size.

The 4 man content is just a bad design.
5-6 man content as smaller parties would make it far better. since you still had only 1 tank 1 healer but 3-4 dps instead of just 2.

I really have no clue why they were going this way creating content.

Definitely this. I think they went with four with the idea of keeping it small for people making their own groups. But the duty finder took out, or at least minimized that aspect and they rolled with it anyway. Five or six man dungeons are definitely something they should consider for the future.

well, if you remember FF1-6 they all had 4 person parties

Four didn't. /nitpick

[RoxasXIII]

What DD type are queuing as?

Melee gets in alot faster than ranged since more people play the latter type of DD. I agree the wait times shouldn't be so long but..it really is a problem we created ourselves.

Since when does dr differentiate between melee and ranged?

[Gwaeron]

Since when does dr differentiate between melee and ranged?

Since always actually. I can't find the quote right now, it might've been on the beta forums, but people were complaining about the unfairness of two people potentially lotting against each other (i.e. two DD) in four-man dungeons, while the tanks and healers were guaranteed their drops, if any. The official response said that the DF actually tries to match one ranged DD and one melee DD in each party if possible.

[KyroeFelix]

Since when does dr differentiate between melee and ranged?

Iirc, the DF tries to make DD groups of 1 melee, 1 ranged. Obviously, this doesn't always happen, but it attempts to do so. More players queue up on brd, blm, and smn than mnk or drg which is why those jobs usually have longer wait times.

Don't ask me to find the interview/dev post about it. They talked about this sometime before launch.