Learned today that I cannot queue for both Raid Finder and Duty Finder, but if you abandon Raid Finder because you're wasting your time, you WILL get a penalty for both Raid and Duty Finder.
Who thinks of this stuff?
Learned today that I cannot queue for both Raid Finder and Duty Finder, but if you abandon Raid Finder because you're wasting your time, you WILL get a penalty for both Raid and Duty Finder.
Who thinks of this stuff?
It's almost like you get penalized for wasting everyone else's time. By leaving, you were the one in the wrong here, like it or not.
Well, maybe not wrong. But you got the queue penalty you deserved.
Abandoned you the queue or the already finished party?
The leaver penalty is a punishment for conduct unfair to your fellow players. To simply allow you to bounce from one content type to another to circumvent the punishment while still short-changing your group members would defeat the purpose entirely.
I understand how the penalty works, what I don't understand is why it effects BOTH when you cannot queue for BOTH. Why do they treat them as one for the penalty but separate for queuing? That's what my post is about.
Regarding wasting time, we spent an hour in duty complete. It was 5/8 premade, with me being one of the 3 joining it solo. The premade group refused to abandon and would not vote kick their healer who afked for over 15m to "start dinner." They also thought it would be mildly entertaining to make the other 3 of us wait around and would not agree to dismiss us. They kept pulling the boss and dying on purpose, therefore wasting our time. I was left with options, wait until our instance expired or abandon the duty.
So, while you speculate as to my culpability, you refrain from addressing my original point.
doesn't matter, punishment is still a punishment
You can't queue up for both cause they are two different queueing mechanics, like Roulettes and specific dungeons.
The penality for breaking up a party is not "forbidden to queue in (insert queueing method) for 30 mins" it is "forbidden to queue for instanced duties with a party setup"... and this is just to make the penality a penality
If you wish to leave any RF/DF group without penalty - for whatever reason, ask to be dismissed or put forward a vote abandon.
Opting to leave/quit a fully formed party because you feel you're "wasting your time" incurs a 30 minute penalty because you chose to leave your formed group in a lurch, no matter how you joined that party.
System working as designed.
The reason the penalties are linked is because they're the same type of content despite using a different interface to join them. Another way to look at it is you can't queue for both a roulette and a normal mode raid at the same time even though they're both in duty finder. And another example of the same situation is with PotD queue.
I.e. the penalty is tied to the type of content not the interface because that is the point of the penalty. It is in place to penalize you from dropping out of matched content early regardless of what that matched content is. If it were tied to the method used to enter the content then (general) you would be able to queue up in 3 different types of matched content and drop early up in each type without any impact on you at all. Meanwhile, all 3 of those parties have been inconvenienced by you.
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