Please give us other options for running dungeons

[Fendred]

I don't claim the following as fact, but my perspective/thoughts on the topic.

You're never going to go to a happy balance where everyone has instant queues, because people largely like hitting things with big numbers more then they like healing or taking hits. NPCs are always going to be dumb to the point where they would have to dumb the dungeons down to an equal and accommodating level. Let's assume that the second point isn't the case, if they make an efficient NPC, people will be less inclined to play with real players in a so-called multiplayer game save for in content that bars this feature.

I'm not so much interested in instant queue times, but rather the developers minimizing them. Wait times need to be reduced to a level where most can reasonably say they do not heavily cut into a player's play time. In my opinion, no one's wait time should be greater than 5 minutes during high time. I agree with the assumption that the number of roulette options are probably starting to divide up the community and adding to the queue times.

I've always felt this complaint is really lame in a game like FFXIV. Maybe that was because I played a rogue for years in World of Warcraft, and was unable to queue as anything but DPS. Playing FFXIV, I was able to main a bard, while running a white mage in dungeons for fast queues and easy tomes. You can do everything on one character. You can use one class to support the growth of another class. The option is there, unlike in so many other games.

I'm not sure how that is supposed to be a solution. If anything, that is more evident of the problem. I mean, its a solution in the sense that, yes, you can gear up a damage dealer, but if you can gear up a DD faster by not playing a DD in dungeons, that tends to suggest a serious problem.