30 min to 1 hour Tank queues for Void Ark

[TheUltimate3]

Madness I say! Madness!

But seriously jokes aside, I'm actually quite surprised. I thought the composition was the same as WoD and therefore the queue times would be...normalish?

Good news for DPS though (Unless their queues are also horrid at which case D: )

[Derio]

DPS queues are excellent. This morning I tried to queue in as a tank. 30+ minutes. Switched to my ninja. Got in under 5 minutes. I was shocked. I am guessing the healer queue are still normal.

[TheUltimate3]

DPS queues are excellent. This morning I tried to queue in as a tank. 30+ minutes. Switched to my ninja. Got in under 5 minutes. I was shocked. I am guessing the healer queue are still normal.

Honestly that's hilarious lol. Yeah I'm kinda screwed (I have 4 jobs at 60, 2 tanks and 2 healers, and only DRK is ilvl 175. Yes I am bad), but it is still hilarious.

[Skivvy]

Stuck working ATM, but are the parties no longer 2 tanks, 2 healers, 4 DPS?

[Kosmos992k]

Stuck working ATM, but are the parties no longer 2 tanks, 2 healers, 4 DPS?

No, their solution to DPS complaints about Q times is to reduce the number of tanks needed to 1 - at least in Void Ark and parts of Crystal Tower. I really hate to tell them this, but in the long run, this is just one more factor that alienates people who actually enjoy playing tank.

[Odett]

No, their solution to DPS complaints about Q times is to reduce the number of tanks needed to 1 - at least in Void Ark and parts of Crystal Tower. I really hate to tell them this, but in the long run, this is just one more factor that alienates people who actually enjoy playing tank.

Look back at Labrynth and tell me how often having 6 tanks in the group was useful (very little). There was absolutely no point to 6 tanks in that dungeon except the first boss, and for them to play "click the towers" in Behemoth. For most fights, having that many tanks was completely superfluous. SE probably decided that it was smarter to just add 3 tanks for 24 person fights, because you didn't need the other 3 for the majority of fights inside the dungeon. I'd rather have less tanks than have fights centered around 6 tanks, giving them menial tasks like push a button, or purposely having them getting caught by the Death Claws.

[Kosmos992k]

Look back at Labrynth and tell me how often having 6 tanks in the group was useful (very little). There was absolutely no point to 6 tanks in that dungeon except the first boss, and for them to play "click the towers" in Behemoth. For most fights, having that many tanks was completely superfluous. SE probably decided that it was smarter to just add 3 tanks for 24 person fights, because you didn't need the other 3 for the majority of fights inside the dungeon.

Can't be that hard to come up with a mass battle with 6 Bosses simultaneously splitting the 6 tanks 6 ways.

[Odett]

Can't be that hard to come up with a mass battle with 6 Bosses simultaneously splitting the 6 tanks 6 ways.

Can you say with a straight face that you expect 6 DUTY FINDER tanks to coordinate and pick an ad each when 90% of the time, you can't even do it with 3 because they're all fighting for agro on the main boss?

Taking that aside, I agree that a fight like that would be pretty cool, but like I said in my last post, look at all the instances in Labrynth were tanks were given menial chores during a fight because the devs couldn't find interesting ways to incorporate 6 tanks into one boss fight.

[dank1]

Can't be that hard to come up with a mass battle with 6 Bosses simultaneously splitting the 6 tanks 6 ways.

But it was, you also had the try hard PLDs who want to tank everything so they feel like their full vit build was useful somehow, so theyd try to grab all the adds and therefor theyd all be killed on the same spot.
Fighting for aggro was a pain.

Also look at it this way, with only one tank per party needed you now have 5 dps who get close to insta queues now, as opposed to when tanks are in short supply those 5 dps would be waiting 30 mins for their queues, so tell me whats better 2 people (tanks) having insta queues or 5 people (the dps) having insta queues.
Us tanks always have it good doesnt hurt to let the dps have some fun too sometimes

[kuma_aus]

No, their solution to DPS complaints about Q times is to reduce the number of tanks needed to 1 - at least in Void Ark and parts of Crystal Tower. I really hate to tell them this, but in the long run, this is just one more factor that alienates people who actually enjoy playing tank.

In Crystal Tower, there was hardly any need for 2 tanks per party. Tanks were just nerfed DPS for the most part. Even with 3 tanks per alliance, half the time 2 tanks are just DPS until 1 very small portion of the fight. If you enjoy tanking, 24 player raids aren't the smartest content to do when you will spend 95% of the time not tanking anything or being the designated B team tank that tanks everything.