Disturbing trend with tanks

[Shalan]

**Edit**
Looks like people are seeing it a lot with healers (and maybe DPS?) too, if I could edit the title I would to players but I can't. Sorry.

The last week I've been working on leveling up some DPS classes and I've noticed a trend that I haven't seen before. Tanks are constantly bailing on my groups before or right after the spawn gates drop without a word, and half the time after that a tank that joins via in-progress will bail as well. This sometimes causes other group members to drop as they'd rather start a new queue than hope we get a tank with "in progress" on and is willing to stick around.

Today alone this has happened seven (7!) times and it's just making the DPS queues that are already long even more painful as once you finally get a group you have crucial party members dropping like flies. I can sometimes semi-tank some of the content with a good healer (playing Ninja) but that can only get you so far.

Did something happen this last week that's causing this or something? Patch draw back players who aren't willing to play dungeons they don't like? I don't think it's the dungeons as I'm seeing this trend all the way from Sastasha up to Stone Vigil

[aerolol]

I'm doing most of the roulettes as DRK since I'm leveling it up.

I have seen 5+ healers doing exactly what you describe in the last few days.

[Esp]

I'll never understand why people drop from a roulette dungeon even before the gate drops. Did they see gear on someone they didn't like and just decided to just bail? It's a ROULETTE! Take what you get..

[DuskTS]

I've experienced it. Or they disconnect without actually leaving dungeon.

[Immut]

People have been doing that in Aurum Vale for as long as we've had roulette. There are certain dungeons that NOBODY wants to run. Aurum Vale, Dzemael Darkhold, Pharos Sirius and Keeper of the Lake are the really bad ones.

[KeluBehemoth]

I actually quite enjoy keeper Of the lake

[Kaiser-Ace]

I think making an additional penalty that banns someone from DF for 24hrs after the 5th duty abandon would curb most of it. Heck even a 12 hr DF ban would basically lock most people out of the game for the rest of the day.

[Atoli]

I think making an additional penalty that banns someone from DF for 24hrs after the 5th duty abandon would curb most of it. Heck even a 12 hr DF ban would basically lock most people out of the game for the rest of the day.

Which is totally not fair if you abandoned group because you got paired with assholes, just rude people, or those who are constantly afk but friends so they'll never vote "yes" on a kick and anything the like.

[Legion88]

There are a other ways to deal with this like to restric the abandoning like vote kicking, once every 4h, so if you have to leave you can. Or let the abandoning count towards the drawbacks, after 3 abandonings/drawbacks 30 min lockout.

[Kaiser-Ace]

Which is totally not fair if you abandoned group because you got paired with assholes, just rude people, or those who are constantly afk but friends so they'll never vote "yes" on a kick and anything the like.

I agree it's unreasonable and unfair but so is the fact that people are quiting duties at an unreasonable rate. Something greater than the 30 minute penalty is needed.