"Queue as any class/role"

[Rongway]

There would be a minor complication in that many duties have a minimum iLv requirement, and so any multi-role queue system would have to be coded to consider your gear levels, most likely using your gear sets. For example, if my gear sets went

1. BLM 230
2. SMN 225
3. DRK 210
4. PLD 215
5. WAR 210
6. AST 215
7. SCH 200
8. WHM 200
9. MCH 185
10. BRD 185
11. NIN 185
12. MNK 180
13. DRG 180

It would have to tell DR:Expert (200 requirement) something like "gear sets 1-8 okay; here are the roles for each gear set".

Alternatively (and preferably, I'd say), would be to designate a set of gear sets, maximum one per role, before you queue. So I might choose something like

• Tank: None (perhaps I don't want to tank this roulette)
• Healer: set 6
• Ranged: set 1
• Melee: none

to indicate that I would like to AST or BLM. This would require a far less complicated matching algorithm than the former system that just considers the whole set of gear sets.


And still another possible issue would be the ability that people currently have to cheat the iLv requirements by wearing inappropriate accessories (and it does happen -- I have seen on more than one occasion casters in all STR/DEX accessories or DoWs in all INT/MND accessories). While this has been an existing potential situation since the dawn of iLv requirements, a multi-role queue system would make it even more tempting and easier for people to assign gear inappropriately in order to get a shorter queue time, and so consideration would have to be given to locking accessories to their intended roles.