Queue times for content getting long?

[Misutoraru]

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?

depend on what i m queuing

Crystal tower as usual between 1.5 hours to infinite

Daily Expert, pretty much with in 15min as DPS

High level, Main Scen, both my healer and DPS is about 5-30 min

Leveling about the same

i dont see queuing as Healer significant faster than DPS

and the average wait time is absurd, e.g. sometimes i get average wait time over 30min, but i get into a party with less than 5 min

sometimes it say average 5 min, i wait over 40 min to get a party

[_Pigzig]

deal w it tbh fam

[Sasha]

Zhexos.

I think you need to revamp the rewards for the Adventurer in Need bonus, and I don't mean shower players in seals or gil. What might work well would be a unique token system, call the tokens favors. You're doing the community a favor by running content as the class in need, so Favors seems an appropriate name. The Favors should accumulate and be tradeable for specific mounts, minions, glamor items and/or special titles.

Please don't do this, as a tank in savage and a drg elsewhere this would actually make me tank elsewhere, and I really don't want that.

[bounddreamer]

I waited as a tank for about five minutes for duty roulette this morning. Surprised me!

My queue times as dps and healer have been pretty decent lately. For the past few days I've registered, started to run beast tribe quests, and couldn't even get partway through the quest before the duty popped.

[Silverbane]

Let's just stop fighting how players like to play their classes and let DRG queue as tanks.

That'll fix everything.

I'm a WHM main, and I approve this message. It will make my DF runs interesting.

[OPneedNerfs]

Regardless of levelling or max level queues, nothing's going to change because levelling through dungeons as a tank/healer isn't efficient anymore due to a few reasons:

1. FATEs and levequests are just much better for exp.
2. Chance of getting low/bad DPS players because it's Duty Finder.
3. More tanks/healers prefer to run with people they know (FC mates/Friends/Linkshells) than to gamble on the chance of point no.2

[Elim]

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.

Does this apply to PvP queue's?

Right now the PvP queue doesn't seem like it prioritizes people who've queue'd first. Other people can get in before you, even if you've queue'd 30 minutes before them... The common "theory" to workaround this buggy(?) system right now is to un- queue and re-queue after 10-15 minutes until you get a pop.

[Hempen_Kecks]

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.

It's probably completely unreasonable, but as someone who levels every single job and sometimes cares more about accomplishing the Duty than what role I'm going as, I would love a little more information about the actual queues. Solely for the purpose of getting in faster, I will swap to a job, bait the queue, withdraw, swap to a different job, and repeat, until I get a party or I've exhausted every role I can fill.

I couldn't tell you how many times I've swapped to the role requested by the "Adventurer in Need" bonus only for a different one to actually result in the instant queue.

Is there some way we could, upon queueing for a duty, see a window like the Party Finder that shows us how many are in the queue, what jobs (or at least what roles), what languages they're set to, things like that? Probably an immense computational cost, however.

[kazeandi]

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

Ego from here to Toky fits pretty well, because I am in Tokyo.
Most tanks I met are people like you and me, or rather say, they are you and me.

There is no 'them' - I know, I know, the new X-Files series starts soon :P

[KarstenS]

I think you need to revamp the rewards for the Adventurer in Need bonus

Yes. Thats a very valid point I also wanted to say for a long time now.

2k Gil as bonus? On my 2 active played chars I do have together around 13kk Gil. Compared to others it is not much. But enough to let me think about "How should a 2k Gil bonus attract me to queue up?". I generate way more gil within less than 30 seconds by gathering. Even my retainers generate more Gil by ventures without any own effort by me.

Company Seals? I get more by exchanging all that loot I do get during a single instance run.