Player-matching algorithms for the Duty Finder have been adjusted.

[KaedrianLiang]

SE, what does this mean?

From occasionally observing "Duty Status" i strongly believe the DF already assigns you to 1 of the any 5 duties the moment you join the que. I imagine the new algorithm will move your placing to different duties based on how soon it will be ready and how long you have been in the que.

Wait im giving too much credit.

Most likely we wont see silly party compositions in raids where we have 4 brds in party A and 4 blms in party B and 2 sch's in party C when both party A and B have all whm healers. An algorithm to make looting less competitive for dps and favor diversity for greater stat boosts across the board.

...DF currently prioritizes diverse parties...

LOLWAT?

[Selli]

Most likely we wont see silly party compositions in raids where we have 4 brds in party A and 4 blms in party B and 2 sch's in party C when both party A and B have all whm healers. An algorithm to make looting less competitive for dps and favor diversity for greater stat boosts across the board.

I have seen 8 WHMs do Titan HM. I believe in miracles. However, worse comes to worst, I will accept these derped queues for all the trial shenanigans.

[JimboTCB]

From occasionally observing "Duty Status" i strongly believe the DF already assigns you to 1 of the any 5 duties the moment you join the que. I imagine the new algorithm will move your placing to different duties based on how soon it will be ready and how long you have been in the que.

Yeah, there's definitely weird stuff going on sometimes. I quite often have the DF window up while I'm doing other stuff so I can guess how long I've got until it pops, and I'm always seeing already-queued roles drop off the list.

I'm also guessing it doesn't do a very good job at pulling from the pool of available players based on what dungeons are actually unlocked for them, as I almost never get higher-level dungeons when randoming at 50, so I don't know where all the low-level players are ending up. And then there's times when you get randomed into a low-level dungeon where all four members are synced down but nobody actually specific queued for the place. That just seems wrong.

[Ren_Taka]

Most likely we wont see silly party compositions in raids where we have 4 brds in party A and 4 blms in party B and 2 sch's in party C when both party A and B have all whm healers. An algorithm to make looting less competitive for dps and favor diversity for greater stat boosts across the board.

Just got out of WoD. 3 DRGs in our party. Another party had 3 BLM. The last party had 3 BRD. So...no...that obviously wasn't it.