Queue times for content getting long?

[Eye_Gore]

If any role in this game treats other like crap and has an ego from here to Tokyo it's tanks...

What if you live in Tokyo? I guess because I only play as a tank I rarely get to see other tanks except for the 8 man content, which all I usually do for that is trial roulette. I don't bad mouth people at all I don't even get snippy at anyone, why? Its a game if I die I'm not going to go after the healer because I died, even if its clear that they messed up, but at that I'm usually to busy doing things to notice.

I only use the DF for runs, mainly roulette now and if I need to add some extra tomes. I have seen the comments though about how long the que took to get in, when I got in instantly. I never experienced it from the other side. Sometimes if I do an early morning trial run it takes a little bit but no more than 10 minutes. I do get some random requests sometimes from people to do a dungeon. I actually got one the other day from someone wanting to do a guildhest, I happily did it and I will do it for anyone who asks and I have the time to do it. We are not all this evil egotistical prima donnas people label us as, that can go for anyone. If they are like that, they were that way before playing as a tank.

[Mykll]

Player 1: "I like to level up in dungeons via DF! Queue times are slow at times."
Player 2: "Want fast queue times go tank!"
Player 1: "Tank EXP transfers to my DPS! Sweet, thanks!"

[nyttyn]

lol

guys i asked if you were all having queue time issues not who's a jerk ;_; please don't fight

[Aeyis]

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.

Oh, the horror.

Meanwhile, my tank queues are instant. Anyone else noticing this gradually getting worse, or am I just unlucky?

Well you can blame that on the ''tank,dps, healer'' 'trinity'. If more classes could tank you would have more tanks available.


That would also solve the whole ''but I dont want to tank, its too frightening'' and ''Im the tank, you listen to me'' situation, if you ask me.
Because if you flood the game with tanks the role becomes a lot less important, tanks lose their diva spot, and people will care less that tanks screw up. (relatively, compared to other roles)


That said, with the current target market for MMOs im not sure if that would play out like that. Many people will look to someone else to be the scapegoat vanguard.

lol

guys i asked if you were all having queue time issues not who's a jerk ;_; please don't fight

I don't really do dungeons, so I can't say. 5 or 10 minutes isnt a long time to queue for tho.

[Eye_Gore]

please don't fight

Stranger to these parts I see.

[PArcher]

Wow. People really want to just hate on tanks, don't they?

I main tank, currently on a3s, and outside doing Alex story runs on DRK (mount points), I don't DF as a tank without company.

Why? The crap attitude of dps and heals. Complaining I don't pull enough (two melee who won't aoe and an ast) that I pull too many (two casters aoeing...but the sch wants to dps and let eos do everything, and only says something after letting me die). Complaining when I don't have mobs in the place they want them, boss turned a little, anything that's a tiny bit different than they want.

The crap is even worse for new tanks, who don't know dungeons well. If the tank is new, patience and some advice should be standard, not the rage and hate they get.

[Chambers]

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Haters gonna hate. If you can't handle it, do what this guy does and DF with friends.

On topic

No, queue times are about the same for me.

[LineageRazor]

Well you can blame that on the ''tank,dps, healer'' 'trinity'. If more classes could tank you would have more tanks available.

More likely scenario, I think:

*Four enter the dungeon, three of which could tank.*
Non-tank: Okay, who's gonna tank this one?
Proto-tank 1: Lawl not me. I didn't put together this L33T DPS gear just to let it rust while I tank!
Proto-tank 2: I don't like tanking. Count me out.
Proto-tank 3: I never learned any of the tanking skills, sorry.
*15 minutes later, no one has moved an inch*
Non-tank: Welp. *Vote abandon.*

Even in this "holy trinity* game where the tank/dps line is clearly divided, you STILL have gawdawful STR WARs who try to pretend that they're not tanks (well, to be fair, they DO succeed in failing to tank...). I doubt that giving more classes the ability to tank will significantly increase the number of players actually willing to tank.

[Nomad-phx]

And what was the role ratio from census slides again? Like more than half of all players are dps and the remainder was split between heals/tanks?

[Kaurie]

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?

What are you queuing for?

I haven't noticed queue times being too bad for my SMN. (5-15 min Ex roulette, 1-5 min Alex NM)
Heal queue times for my WHM leveling is nearly instant for leveling roulette, high level roulette and trial roulette.
PvP Queue times are usually ~5 min.