Duty finder does not work for dps

[Titanshell]

This is not an exaggeration. I have been waiting almost 3hrs per dungeon/raid and still no group. This alone makes doing the main story nearly impossible. I shouldn't have to ask for someone in my FC every 30min-50min for someone to tank because the repeated amount of quests that keep requiring me to que into a dungeon/raid. They are already doing heavensward it's not okay to repeatedly ask them to help me with something that I should be able to que into alone within 40min to 1hr at most. Something needs to be done.

[Adrasteia]

The main issue is that Trial Roulette is not incentivized enough for most people to put up with doing it every day. I rarely have an issue with it, but I know a lot of people don't queue for it out of fear of getting trials like Chrysalis, Steps of Faith (even though it's been hilariously nerfed), or any of the new Primals.

I personally think the 2.0 Hard Primals should get brought down to a 4-man size and be added in as part of LLDR.

[AskaRay]

When/what are you queuing for?
I queue as DPS mostly... and that's even on the off-hours of my server/data center (the EU datacenter but I'm in the US so it's early morning over there when I play)
HW areas are much quicker at the moment, but even when I'm doing roulettes or helping a friend (as DPS because I'm lazy most of the time, don't wanna heal or tank) we don't have to wait that long. I think longest was for Shiva HM at an hour... to be fair it was maybe 2am where I am so, not many people on.

[MXMoondoggie]

I think maybe you need to play more MMO's and figure out this is how it is in all of them because everyone wants to be DPS. There are just loads more DPS to go around and less Tanks and Healers so it naturally takes longer. Somewhat surprising though since people have been levelling new classes. I guess that boom has died down some.

[Titanshell]

I am attempting to get into a group for Chrysalis as I'm typing this. But like the others, I am watching healers, tanks, and dps leave and join left and right. I really like the story, I know I'm near the end of ARR but I'm getting ready to simply drop the game. Right now the que is at 144min, which is over 2hrs. I don't know how much longer I can take this honestly. I don't want my FC to feel like I am using them, but that's probably what it looks like when you ask for a tank like twice a day.

[Adrasteia]

I think maybe you need to play more MMO's and figure out this is how it is in all of them because everyone wants to be DPS. There are just loads more DPS to go around and less Tanks and Healers so it naturally takes longer. Somewhat surprising though since people have been levelling new classes. I guess that boom has died down some.

The complaint that DPS queues take longer than other queues is only tangentially related to this. The main complaint is that pre-HW trials that are necessary for advancing the MSQ are still tied in with Trial Roulette, which doesn't provide enough of an incentive for people to bother with it, especially since there's only a chance of you getting placed in a pre-HW trial in the first place.

My suggestions would be for SE to do one or more of:

1) Increasing the individual rewards for Trial Roulette to encourage more participation.

2) Reduce the player requirements for pre-HW MSQ-necessary trials to 4 players.

3) Fit the pre-HW MSQ-necessary trials into LLDR.

4) Configure Trial Roulette so that undersized parties with level 50+ players can be formed. (This may cause issues with Leviathan, however.)

[Titanshell]

Adrasteia, I like those suggestions.

[Causality]

Trial roulette gives 60 law at level 60. I run it for it but many skip it for some reason. It's far shorter than running neverreap, fractal, or research facility for 40 law. I am slightly traumatized from an early on trial roulette Ravana with 2BRD and 2MCH before fixes but we did ultimately clear it 4th attempt in.. Barely.

Hasn't deterred me from roulette have though.
Real problem is a lot of folks have lawed out their Mains and aren't considering alts.

As long as I'm leveling I'm gathering law for when they hit 60

[Astral145]

Going to be honest I think it was a bad idea for SE to keep the level 50 story quest the way it was. I think they should have condensed the story as much as possible so players can get right to HW. IMO I think forcing players to run Chrysalis and other outdated content to get further in to the story was a bad call. I had a blast when 2.55 came out but that was months ago and is no longer relevant because most players are now focused on HW.

I also think they should just give all players who hit lvl 50 a i110 version of the relic weapon at the completion of the pre 3.0 lvl 50 job quest so they can remove the i80 - i110 relic quests. Its taking up space and is no longer worth doing at this point. If the players choose to level up the relic further for vanity purposes then that's ok but other than that its pointless and simply taking up valuable space for new quests and content.

[Titanshell]

Iv come to similar conclusions about this as well. By the time someone gets to lv 50 they would have completed the Ultima Weapon raid, which by then is a large part of the game anyhow. But I can understand they wanted people to really dive into the story. I just don't think so much of the MSQ is needed, a lot of it after the Ultima Raid felt like fillers until it started focusing primarly on ascians and the dragons that are planning to destroy Ishgard but that's near the end of ARR. But that's just my opinion.

My que time is now 190min. I think it speaks for itself lol.