Is the wait time shorter in the duty finder for tanks or healers?

[HolyGlassofWater]

I know people have always said there is a lack of tanks in the game but personally i feel like there is a lack of healers.

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

Depends on your world/server. I know there's usually a shortage of tanks USING the DF on mine. Hence part of why I became a tank in the first place. And the daily bonuses change every so often, so if you don't see a bonus reward for tanks, just don't que for a couple minutes. Eventually it will change to whatever it is you're looking for.

[AmyNeudaiz]

Healer queue is pretty darn quick always less than 5 minutes unless you do certain specific instances. Melee DPS is shorter wait time than ranged DPS for some reason usually under 10 minutes and ranged DPS gets me at usually over 20 minutes for roulettes. Tank is as you say, almost instant.

[RyuDragnier]

Healer queue is pretty darn quick always less than 5 minutes unless you do certain specific instances. Melee DPS is shorter wait time than ranged DPS for some reason usually under 10 minutes and ranged DPS gets me at usually over 20 minutes for roulettes. Tank is as you say, almost instant.

They changed how the DF queues people a while back. It'll pull in 1 ranged and 1 melee whenever possible. There are more ranged DPS players than melee players, so melee players are usually a shoo-in for a slot.

[Synestr]

Duty finder-Dailies, Q instapop on my tank.
Duty finder-non-dailies, Q instapop on my tank
Duty finder-Dailies, low lvl, Q instapop on my healer
Duty finder-non-dailies/dailies, any, ~5mins on my DRG
Duty finder-non-dailies/dailies, any, 15+mins on my BLM

This is on Diabolos and what I have experienced. Both tank and heals get picked up rather fast. I don't have a 50 heals so I can comment on that aspect, but for the most part, I get in pretty quick. I don't even Q up on my DPS anymore, ain't nobody got time for dat!

Just my 2g

Syn

[repoe]

If only we where able to work on ranking up companions while waiting

[Bombast]

On Balmung, Tanks win by far. I think the longest I've waited on a lvl 50 tank for a roulette was about 30 seconds. Average wait time is closer to 5-10.

healers clock in at about 1 to 2 minutes, though they do get quicker on occasion.

[Fuyuu]

*Japan Data Center
-Group 1
Aegis / Alexander / Atomos / Carbuncle / Chocobo /
Gungnir / Ifrit / Ixion / Ramuh / Ridill / Titan /
Typhon / Valefor

-Group 2
Anima / Bahamut / Durandal / Fenrir / Garuda / Hades /
Kujata / Mandragora / Masamune / Tiamat / Tonberry /
Ultima

*North American/European Data Centers
-Group 1
Adamantoise / Balmung / Cactuar / Diabolos / Exodus /
Goblin / Hyperion / Lamia / Malboro / Moogle / Odin /
Ragnarok / Siren

-Group 2
Behemoth / Cerberus / Coeurl / Excalibur / Faerie /
Gilgamesh / Leviathan / Midgardsormr / Phoenix /
Sargatanas / Shiva / Ultros

Guys, Duty finder is cross-server. It doesn't matter which server you're from!

Also, it's just common sense that Tank and Healer takes less time to queue up. There's a little over 2 times more DPS jobs than Tank or Healer jobs. Do the math.

DPS: MNK, DRG, BLM, SMN, BRD
TANK: PLD, WAR
HEALER: SCH, WHM

On top of that, I'm sure if we'd do a survey, people would prefer stab stuff in the face rather than working on gathering them up or healing people.

[Ninix]

Guys, Duty finder is cross-server. It doesn't matter which server you're from!

The data centers were shuffled around in 2.1, that list is no 100% accurate anymore.

In my experience on Aether, it's almost even at level 50, leaning a bit towards tanks. As a healer I'm getting instant queues for roulettes surprisingly often, and any time I don't get an instant queue it's never more than a minute or two. I've also run into situations where queueing as a tank isn't quite instant, and also has a minute or two wait. So it seems safe to say that both tanks and healers will have very short queues for most level 50 content (below level 50, healer queues are much longer for some reason).

[IndigoHawk]

Tanks are almost always instant, and healers are usually instant. I have a tank and a healer, so in the (very) rare instance when I don't get instant as a tank or the bonus is for healers, I swap over to healer for instant. However, often the "adventurer in need" for healers is a lie, as often I queue as a healer and still have to wait for a tank. Or maybe it's because everyone else sees the adventurer in need for healers and jumps in with their healer.

I leveled a blm recently. Standing around around for 15-25 minutes is kind of boring (especially because I can't level a chocobo while I wait).
Make both a tank and a healer and never wait again.