Duty Finder for DD

[Noshpan]

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.

It's weird that it's always felt the opposite for me. Whenever I am on my Dragoon I am waiting for an hour or more for the DF but if I switch to, say, my Puglist or Black Mage I'm usually waiting for double what the timer says (example: timer says 8 minutes, I'm waiting about 16 minutes). Maybe the DF just hates Dragoons (like everybody else).

[Jeykama]

There was a weird spot a few weeks before 2.2 where CT queues as my bard or healer were 30 minutes and up, but when I queued as monk I waited less than 10 minutes. This happened 4 CTs in a row, so yes separated queue.

It makes sense, though it doesn't make it any easier farming the shikaree chestpiece if I queue as tank.

[KyroeFelix]

It's weird that it's always felt the opposite for me. Whenever I am on my Dragoon I am waiting for an hour or more for the DF but if I switch to, say, my Puglist or Black Mage I'm usually waiting for double what the timer says (example: timer says 8 minutes, I'm waiting about 16 minutes). Maybe the DF just hates Dragoons (like everybody else).

I believe in the census they released last year, drg was more popular than mnk which is why you may be experiencing longer queue times on drg. I don't; I get in on drg within 15 minutes any time I queue up.

but i thought duty finder is cross server, how can one servers population influence duty time ?

It is cross server. Server populations have nothing to do with queue times.

[Chihaya]

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.

I think it's just for PVP, you always will have 1 tank, 1 healer, 1 ranged dps, 1 melee dps

[Arkghyom]

Join the club!

[RoxasXIII]

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.

I didn't realize this was a thing but it sucks. That's just more time s.e forces dr to take.the reasoning seems legit at least...

[Akasier]

Roll a tank or healer, problem solved.

[MrLeonheart]

Roll a tank or healer, problem solved.

Yeah, leveling a Tank or a Healer isn't exactly going to get you a fast queue time as a DD.

[razzgrizz3]

few tanks as always and so this problem still persists eh.
the tank mount was supposed to be more incentive for tanks to qeue but seeing as the these stats are only counted for coils and ex primals the df will remain without this role still. expect the problem only to get worse imo.

[RoxasXIII]

Roll a tank or healer, problem solved.

I rolled a war and got to 50, but I have a new problem... I still can't level my Archer to 30! DR still takes over 30 minutes!! Please help! I really want to unlock all the jobs!!