The only real way to solve DPS queues

[Altena]

/sigh.

You want to split up dps in to sub categories you should with healers and tanks as well. SCH and WHM heal in dramatically different ways which is why the existing meta is based around having a mitigation healer and a throughput healer. Its also why the balance in healing is shot, because AST tries to be both plus extra so its either superior or inferior but never on par.


BRD plays more like a BLM than WHM plays like SCH.

If we apply the same sub categorising to tanks it means that WAR is currently the only damage output focused tank in the game.

Except they're not. As much flavour as you want to put on it, they are inherently healers that are both casters, working toward the same goal with the same sort of playstyle sprinkled with a little bit of their own flavour. Same story with AST.

The difference between a caster and a melee is a far wider gap than that of a SCH and a WHM. The comparison to these is closer to the comparison of a SMN or BLM... Or a DRG and MNK.. Yes they play rather differently due to flavour, however on the base level they are very much the same - achieve similar results with different skills? Sure - but that is called Flavour..

The difference between a DRG and a BLM however is on a completely different scale. One is a caster and one is a melee. They serve very different roles in a party comp. Yes they both focus on DPS but they do it in a manner in which is completely different.

Main stats alone should indicate how different the classes are intended to be.

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I am a tank main. However I enjoy playing DPS classes as well.

I avoid casters and ranged like the plague. I can't stand casters in this game. Ranged are on a similar page with me.
Melee on the other hand are a different story and I enjoy playing most melee classes.

We are sorely lacking in caster variety (currently 2, compared to Tank's 3 and healer's 3).
We are also sorely lacking in Melee DPS (DRG, MNK = 2) that is not heavily support based (NIN).

We have not had a new single heavy melee DPS class since the launch of 1.19 (Job patch).
We have not had a single caster DPS since the launch of 2.0 (ACN was launched along with SMN).

These classes needed their turn.

Tanks and Healers just got new classes. Wait your turn.

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However this thread was not created to be hijacked into a Tank and Healer salt factory.

This thread was created to improve the queue times for DPS players - who like it or not have suffered longer DPS queue times than the privelaged and entiteld Tank-only / Healer-only players. (Yes I am also a Tank player, as are many players who are also DPS players, and also Healer players, and all of which also experience long queue times).

This is a multi-class game. The Tank and Healer only players need to stop crying over this because quite honestly you have already had your privelages since launch, and all the way through Heavensward. I am sorry if you didn't get a 1-up over Melee DPS or Caster DPS players this time round..