Queue times for content getting long?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[NorthernLadMSP]

To get back to the OP's topic:

I have noticed (on both healer and DPS roles) that the trend for me is that the estimated wait time will say something like 5 minutes, or even under 5 minutes, and I end up waiting 2-3 times that before the queue finally pops. This happens more often than it does not.

[Nomad-phx]

The point I was getting at earlier was out of all players the roles are dps = 62%/ heals and tanks = combined 38%. Not exactly very balanced when I only ever see other tanks on my server standing afk in endgame areas while you can't fart in eorzea without hitting 10 dps in the face lol

[Starlord]

The point I was getting at earlier was out of all players the roles are dps = 62%/ heals and tanks = combined 38%. Not exactly very balanced when I only ever see other tanks on my server standing afk in endgame areas while you can't fart in eorzea without hitting 10 dps in the face lol

Ques times are alot better now then they were pre- heavesward. Most I have waited was 25 mins as DPS. Pre- 3.0 Usually more than 30 mins.

But I normally avg around 12 min wait times.

I even got a insta que today. oddly enough!

[Fendred]

Those mentioning the 5 min estimated queue times, but getting 10-30 min waits, I've also experienced this as well. My best guess is that for the roulettes that allow players to join as parties, there are a lot more people logging on and running them as set groups instead of queueing individually. That way you'd get lower estimated queue times, but there isn't any available space in the groups that are queueing. Now, if that's not the case, the only thing that could be happening is a huge burst of players coming on in a very short time frame and queueing up. Those following the wave would get really low estimated queue times not representative of their actual wait time.

[Zhexos]

Sorry for the bump, but I wanted to let you know that the dev. team is currently looking into adjusting how the matching algorithm works, and they are currently aiming to implement this in Patch 3.1.

We would love to hear your feedback after these changes have been applied so we can further look into improving the queue times in the future to make playing even more enjoyable.