Quote Originally Posted by Ricky View Post
3-4 months? it's either 3 or 4, but for the record it's 4

that said, being only 66% through the first year is not "coming up on its first birthday" at all
well, it's really 4.5 months, but yeah.

Basically this will always be an issue if you have a trinity or similar setup. FFXI had 4 roles that people typically used and parties of 6. 1 tank, 1 healer, 1 support, 3 DPS. There was obviously more room for variation in that game since the only party restrictions for any content were the number of players and level (and a lot of content had no such restrictions). Even so, tanks, healers, and support were always harder to fill in than DPS.

I'm sure SE has stats on class distribution that would show the correct ratio to make all classes usually queue up without issue, but it would probably be a bizarre ratio like 2 tanks: 3 healers: 15 DPS

EDIT: also, not sure if this was addressed or my experience is different, but this only seems to be a problem with low level content anymore. I don't think I've waited more than 5 minutes for any of the 2.2 dungeons yet.