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

[Krr]

i really love the creepy materialistic approach people on the OF take to friendships. "my friends cant help me win at a video game" "FIND NEW FRIENDS, ABANDON YOUR OLD, THEY ARE UNWORTHY. WHY ARENT YOU ACCUMULATING HUNDREDS OF FRIENDS TO USE LIKE TOOLS"

also 'you should find a group' no, really, you mean that thing people use df/pf to do isn't being accomplished effectively by df/pf?

the dps queues are baaad y'all, I'm over here leveling my alt's paladin job solely so I can farm my black mage zodiac in a reasonable time frame. that's obscene. i literally cannot make reasonable progress on my black mage weapon while playing black mage. is your answer to not having friends willing to run the piss cave between 5 and 10 times straight to seriously "get new friends?" i seriously want you to find 3 people who will hear the phrase "please run aurum vale with me potentially infinite times" and not begin clawing their eyes out in tyol 2015

am i doing it? yes. is it a valid solution? yes. do i fault anyone for deciding to just friggin' unsub rather than do that? absolutely not. the players willing to put up with this are minority contingent and it shows when content droughts like this are happening

we literally have over twice as many DPS jobs as non-DPS jobs. and while I believe there's no magic bullet solution to tank and healer shortages, queues of up to an hour for DPS players trying to do casual endgame content is literally something I have never experienced in any other major game ever, including several literally dead ones like aion. something can and hopefully will be done in heavensward between shiny new jobs and the ability to solo or semi-solo very casual content, but "basic things sensible players hope are fixed in heavensward" is kind of an endlessly growing list of basic design competencies this should have exhibited by 2.3