Quote Originally Posted by Altena View Post
DPS queues are long, have always been long, and will continue to be long.

Adding a new Tank or Healer isn't going to incentivise people to play Tank or Healer.. It will just shuffle current Tanks or Healers onto those new classes.

The only true solution to increase demand is to also increase supply.

My suggestion is this (although it is really too late for this to be the case in Stormblood)..

Increase the new 4-man instances to either 5-man or 6-man instances and scale difficulty / mobs accordingly. Of course this would be too big a job to change all of the current dungeons to this setup, so I am suggesting that any "new" dungeons after a certain point be changed to this.
1 Tank, 1 Healer, 3/4 DPS.

Why? Well it's a simple equation of supply and demand.
You have more DPS queueing than you have slots in a duty - that is why queues take a long time. The simple fix to a high demand is a higher supply.

Let's use 24-man raids as an example.. Tank queues are actually quite bad for Dun Scaith (or at least were, I haven't attempted to queue as tank since a week or 2 after patch release). This is because you have more tanks than you have slots - since there are only 3 slots for a whole 24-man raid.

Increasing DPS slots by 1 in levelling and end-game dungeons would reduce DPS queues times by a good amount.
I'm afraid the only real way to reduce the queue times for DPS is for more players to choose to play tanks and healers. The ironic thing is I find DPS players are typically the ones to give these two roles grief when they do not perform up to their expectations, which are usually higher than necessary for said content. This then gives healers and tanks less incentive to queue into content with strangers. You guys seriously dig your own graves.

You wanna reduce DPS queue times, then use proper etiquette when you are actually in an instance. Believe me, tanks and healers WANT to give you their comms, and when you are not a sheep DPS player you will quickly get them. At least from those who appreciate your enmity control, group support, and following mechanics. When tanks and healers think to themselves, "Yup, pull the whole effin dungeon!" it's because you guys are seriously bringing the wrecking ball.

In short, just do what you are meant to do, and don't be a dick to your tanks and healers. It is seriously that simple. And when you queue as a tank or healer and witness a douchebag DPS player, know that this fvckhead is messing it up for all of you.