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    Player
    LaylaTsarra's Avatar
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    Y'sira Kurai
    World
    Halicarnassus
    Main Class
    Conjurer Lv 100
    I tank and heal higher level content with friends and free company members. I don't personally want to deal with the expectations of DF. It's not worth it for me.
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    Gilraen's Avatar
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    Gridania
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    Character
    Gilraen Bior
    World
    Midgardsormr
    Main Class
    Archer Lv 70
    The thing keeping me from queuing as anything but Bard is two-fold. One, I suck as a healer, I don't have the speed to heal through speed runs and probably never will. Two, I am a Gridanian purist and there's no Gridanian tank at all. It's an odd disparity to me that Ul'dah has a tank, Limsa Lominsa has a tank and now Ishgard has a tank... but Gridania doesn't have anything of the sort. I'd probably try tanking if this weren't the case... but it's not. Real shame.
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    Jim_Berry's Avatar
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    Bloomington, Indiana
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    Character
    Jim Berry
    World
    Malboro
    Main Class
    Ninja Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Gilraen View Post
    The thing keeping me from queuing as anything but Bard is two-fold. One, I suck as a healer, I don't have the speed to heal through speed runs and probably never will. Two, I am a Gridanian purist and there's no Gridanian tank at all. It's an odd disparity to me that Ul'dah has a tank, Limsa Lominsa has a tank and now Ishgard has a tank... but Gridania doesn't have anything of the sort. I'd probably try tanking if this weren't the case... but it's not. Real shame.
    I prefer to queue as my NIN. As tank, I get a-hole DPS who like to pull for me then complain when I let them solo their own. As healer, I can't heal and dps. So, I like my NIN, that way I'm not pointed at if pulls are wrong or it tank dies.
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    wicked-one's Avatar
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    Azul Earendil
    World
    Shiva
    Main Class
    Black Mage Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by nyttyn View Post
    I've noticed that, whenever I'm on my healer instead of my tank, my queue times start getting horrendously long, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, even sometimes 20 minutes.

    And DPS queues, well, just lol.

    Meanwhile, my tank queues are instant. Anyone else noticing this gradually getting worse, or am I just unlucky?
    I see it just like you, the nearly instaqueues for heals are over.

    DPS Queues got slightly better, but just a feeling. Low Level Roulette as DPS goes really fast, but i think that´s because many ppl level atm...

    Overall, it seems to me like the playerbase generally shrinks or lacks activity...
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    Calypsx's Avatar
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    Character
    Caly Umbra
    World
    Faerie
    Main Class
    Dancer Lv 90
    I would play more tanks if there were more tanks. As it stands tanks are so boring thematically and dps have way more thematic variety to pick from. Tanking is fun but I need a medium/light armor tank or something a little more graceful and quick to even consider maining one. This is coming from someone who only plays tanks in other mmorpgs.

    On topic so far I think it hasn't been the best since 3.1 is taking so long. Also the general pressure tanks get in dungeons mean they are more likely to go with friends if they want to get stuff done.
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    KingOfAbyss's Avatar
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    Character
    Abyss King
    World
    Gilgamesh
    Main Class
    Paladin Lv 60
    How about.. hmm.. everytime you log in, you go into Tank and need to do one Dungeon to unlock your healer and dps?

    Everyone would Tank, no one would complain that Tank doesn't know what they are doing because.. they would tank themselves.

    The Queues will definitely be faster, as everyone would like to get rid of this annoying thing in order to play the role they want for the rest of their session.

    They would make sure not to pull too many, as a wipe even once means more time spent in Tank (oh noes!)

    Kills the freedom of choice (I play whatever I want so get the hell away), but wouldn't that resolve the queue problems, albeit a bit?
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    Character
    Derio Uzumaki
    World
    Sargatanas
    Main Class
    Dark Knight Lv 100
    Queues are longer right because of the gap between patches. Not to mention if a tank player does pvp as a dps, tank or healer 1 or more times during the week, it reduces the need to run DR EX. If there are other players like me or players that simply dont run DR EX and just pvp, they reduce the amount of tanks as well.

    Also by now those two dungeons are boring. I have ran those 2 dungeons so many times its literally gotten so bad that I cast the same move at the same spot, etc that I can almost do the dungeon blind folded.

    Many tanks dont have patience for small pulls and slow burn which is why many people feel most tanks are rude. As a tank you have to have alot of patience for the group and most importantly confidence for yourself.
    Alot of people thing player commendations are stupid. But when I switched from SMN and started tanking around 2.1, getting all of those player commendations kind of gave me confidence not only to continue tanking, but to learn more about tanking.
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    dank1's Avatar
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    Character
    Dank Evol
    World
    Siren
    Main Class
    Dark Knight Lv 60
    Im getting long
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    Farrell's Avatar
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    Character
    Corwynt Farrell
    World
    Leviathan
    Main Class
    Scholar Lv 70
    Yea, haven't been able to do a single thing all day. Three hour queues for trial or guildhest roulette? That is a first.
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    Farrell's Avatar
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    Character
    Corwynt Farrell
    World
    Leviathan
    Main Class
    Scholar Lv 70


    Yea....this is every roulette today
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