Is there any way to play the game as DPS? Or just end subscription?

[kyuven]

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You seem to be missing the point of the armory system if you retainer all the gear for other classes when you're out leveling a class.
Your base inventory has 100 slots.
your armory has 25 spaces per slot.
When you queue up, it really is in your best interest to do other things. You mention TT. You're OK with doing TT, which can't be canceled why in progress, while waiting on a queue, but not ok with leveling another class at the same time? or crafting? Or hell gathering?
You have 100 inventory slots JUST for things that aren't equipment. I'd suggest you utilize them. Level a gathering profession.
You can switch classes at literally the push of a button and you're complaining about multi-tasking being hard. I...really don't think this is the game for you.

[Able]

1. Find new friends and a new FC
2. Do fates and hunting log while waiting for queues
3. Get a friend to WHM holy spam leves for you in Mor Dhona. Get from 45 to 50 in three hours, probably less.

It seems as if you have an answer for every solution anyone has offered you. If you're really that frustrated with the game, it's best to unsubscribe and uninstall. I leveled all of my DPS classes with ease.

[Sprinks]

Make 3 other DPS friends and queue up the appropriate dungeon! My boyfriend, another couple, and I leveled up our nins this way and had LOTS of fun! Did baby haukke up until the final boss due to no real healer.

[SummonerSenah]

Dps queue times are a good time to catch up on shows on Netflix or games on your handheld console.

I leveled almost all of my jobs to 50 doing fates while in queue. Doing fates solo is not that bad.

[Pence]

Just quit. You're obviously not having any fun and have come to the forums to have people convince you to stay. You've been provided multiple solutions to your issue but continue to cry over...heck, I don't know? Not being able to solo Cutters Cry to get that sick BIS aetherial gear for your DRG? (I fully expect a DRG to believe this is BIS, it's not your fault: It's the soul stone corrupting you.)

We don't care if you leave.

Seriously. We don't.

[HeroSamson]

I think it will get worse when the expansion gets released.

Problem is the people that are playing now have to hurry and finish the content before the launch.
The ones who get left behind will have to struggle.

This happened in FFXI and people used to say well get your Linkshell to help, problem is some people didn't wanna do the content again since they done it so much they were burned out on it and some content was super hard for them to even attempt to try again, I tried to help in FFXI but also became burned out.
That is when they decided to gimp chains expansion so that at least you could solo it, though they didn't gimp it for a long time.

Here it will be the same issue, longer duty waits since its based on dungeon and this is their mistake having everything a dungeon.

Once they get far enough with a 3rd expansion its going to be harder to get stuff done.

Some of the elitist will get angry just like they did in FFXI if the content is gimped and say things like "I had to do it hard but they get it easy" though if you want people to keep playing you are going to deal with it.

[GenJoe]

Hey at least you don't get kicked for being afk while waiting in queue like most other games

But short answer, if you can't deal with the queue times and you absolutely insist on playing dps, then it may be time to move on to some other game like Wildstar where each class has 2 roles by default.

[SpookyGhost]

Read the thread, top to bottom, here's what I think:

You're looking for problems because you can't be bothered to actually find solutions. Instead of playing without your friends who are at endgame/have quit, you'd rather just wait until SE changed the game to suit your laziness. Yes, it is laziness, I have been in the same boat as you before where the easiest option wasn't available to me so I just opted out of it entirely. For some reason (and I'm not defending the DPS queue times, I also think they're a bit ridiculous) you want to sit in a queue as a DPS and do literally nothing while you wait for that queue to pop. If you happen to have very little time on your hands, maybe your expectations for the content you'll do in a day are set way too high. You don't have to do things in XIV to pass the time in queue, you know - you can play a handheld game, you can read, you can visit these forums, you can visit other forums, etc. etc. You'll hear a giant DING when your queue pops, you won't miss it unless you are completely spaced out.

While I recognize that you've tried PF, I don't think you understand the merits of it or you aren't using it to it's full effectiveness. With PF, you can find 3-7 other people to run the content that you want to run multiple times in succession. This is a million times better than waiting in DF every single time. Even if it took longer than 20-30 mins to find people, it would be worth it. You also have the option to shout for people, you don't have to just stick it in PF and be done. You have to try otherwise you'll just sit there, in a queue, doing literally nothing but twiddling your thumbs. If you do that, it's going to seem absolutely dreadful to you and I completely understand why that would make you want to give up on the game. Alternatively, you can actually put some real, genuine effort into finding people to play with and not expect the game to just let you be as lazy as possible.

If you do decide to stick to your guns and wait for solo dungeons, then that's fine and you'll get that in due time. All I'm really saying here is that if you put a bit of effort in, you wouldn't have to wait, and you'd get to play with other people - which, personally, I find is the drawing point of an MMO.

[Alistaire]

Also, if it hasn't been said, I think what they did this update the "adjusted algorithm" for queues messed up. Really hoping not on purpose. But people have had various setups just needing dps for things and not gotten one right away, which it pretty much always should. I've noticed in WoD there seems to be a lot less duplicate dps jobs in parties, so maybe that's a part of what they did. It would be nice if they would say what they did, if not in technical terms at least from the perspective of what their goal was in making those changes.

[Nova_Rox]

I remember trying to level THF in FFXI....I was once LFG for a week before i got an invite <_<