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

[seekified]

Sometimes, the queue waits 30 mins for a healer, and the tank is forced to sit there just as long as the DPS for the role to fill. Or the reverse, sometimes its the healer and we wait 30mins for tank. I have played both healer and tank and since ninja was released around the time I was finishing levelling them, my queues went from decent 1-5min queues as heal/tank, to 10-30mins or more,
Not sure what the did when Ninja came out but it really thru a wrench in DF queues for all low levels. not just DPS. Because of it I gave up finishing my tanks and MNK classes. They will remain at 40 until the queues dont suck.

Really? I finished my SCH three days ago after having done Stone Vigil > Dzemael Darkhold > Aurum Vale for days, and the only queue that took more than five minutes was the very last AV run, which took around 20. With my WAR (which I finished in November doing the exact same thing) it was instaqueues all the way.

But I mean, if queues are terrible I would:
1. Ask FC/LS/friends if they want to join
2. Form PF farming party for the dungeon in question
3. Go to Northern Thanalan and /shout LFG fates if I'm 40+ and all else fails.

[Sartori]

I have been playing since beta. But recently I have been trying to get all jobs to 50 before Heavensward and also get BiS gear for my main job DRG before then, but I am finding it impossible to actually play the game when I get on and get extremely bored because the queues are .

Have you people not heard of FC's or something??

[radioactive_lego]

Being in an FC doesn't help because everyone is usually busy and doing their own thing. Party finder is a dud.

You need a new FC.

Also, it wouldn't kill you (anyone) to tank some of the time. If every "bored" Diasy out there tanked 1 of 5 runs of anything there would be no queue waits.

If anything, you cant play as DPS because the average DPSer is lazy, and is not willing to contribute to the metagame.

Thank god there's no downvote, because i feel the trollerdpserazzi already eyeing this post. The truth hurts.

[AreeyaJaidee]

Whenever I'm playing a dps (working on my smn nexus ATM), I just find a friend to partner with for que times. Find a buddy that wants to play tank or healer and invite them along, does wonders for que times.

[2spooky]

Play WAR for MAX DEEPS and fast queues for everything besides WoD, where you should go DPS for fast queues.

[FallenArisen0990]

Idk, there's a lot of things to do to kill time. The only issue I've into as a DPS is finding a good group to do end game with. That 4 or 5 hours {Looking for party} in my mog house paid off.

[Maero]

When Ninja first came out i pretty much leveled it from 1-50 by doing fates+ leves as queue times as you could imagine were horrid
Queue times have actually been worst since the introduction of Gold Saucer it would seem.
Expert Roulette as example more often then not can take up to 45 mins

[Fuma]

They really just need to move to a 5 person party system IMO.

1 tank
1 healer
3 DD

Adding new tanks and healer are bandaids to the issue as once people level those jobs a fair amount are just going to go back into the role they enjoy in a party. Yes, some may stay as a new tank or healer but the vast majority will go back to their DD roles.

[radioactive_lego]

They really just need to move to a 5 person party system IMO.

1 tank
1 healer
3 DD

Adding new tanks and healer are bandaids to the issue as once people level those jobs a fair amount are just going to go back into the role they enjoy in a party. Yes, some may stay as a new tank or healer but the vast majority will go back to their DD roles.

Agreed. We should also fix the RMT spam by spamming non-rmt tells that are exactly like rmt tells.

[Magistrella]

OP text summarized:

Complaining on a Monday that Weekly DPS Ques are too long when the quests reset on Tuesday

Guess what, if you did it on Tuesday/Wednesday you'd have ques as short as 2 min for LotA - like i just had

*flies away*


oh and btw, you dont have to lvl stuff you wont use anyways in the end...