To those saying queue times will even out...

[Rizvu]

In "just a couple of months"

Do you even realize how long that is?

If we assume that is 2 months minimum, well the Stormblood info embargo was 5 days ago! feels like an eternity right?
The live letter from the producers was 2 weeks ago! I dont even remember that thing anymore.
Hatching tides was 1 month ago!

You're brushing a sixth of a full year off like it's nothing lol that's a twelth of the time until the next expac spent in queues.

This should NEVER have been acceptable.

[Youkulm]

They'll be fine. Just like they were with Ninja. I dont think it'll take a couple months for it to level out.

[missybee]

To be fair, everyone and their goldfish is going to be doing POTD to get from 50-60, so it shouldn't be much of an issue there.

That said, queue times for the MSQ / leveling dungeons from 60 onward are probably going to be pretty unpleasant for DPS.

[Dualgunner]

You're right! DPS will never get queues, which means they'll ALL quit! Without any DPS, tanks and healers won't get queues, and they'll quit too! Then nobody will be playing and FFXIV will shut down! AGAIN!

[BorisDaBlade]

Yeah I don't thonk the queues are going to change much. Most players will probably level the new classes through potd because you can get to 70 inside potd pretty quick and practice all the new abilities along the way before you actually level them to 70.

Which means they will use their main classes for story content and probably won't affect the DF queues quite as bad as you think.

[Rizvu]

You're right! DPS will never get queues, which means they'll ALL quit! Without any DPS, tanks and healers won't get queues, and they'll quit too! Then nobody will be playing and FFXIV will shut down! AGAIN!

Omg! you're right! it's a self-destructing conspiracy from Yoshi-P! nah but seriously, this was the case when nin came out (granted, not for as long) but it wasn't the case when HW came out, bt now it's being anticipated for stormblood? well i don't know about you, but i see a pattern shaping O.o

[Edewen]

The sky is not falling. They lifted the nda about 2 weeks early. Everyone is losing their dam minds.

[Rizvu]

Yeah I don't thonk the queues are going to change much. Most players will probably level the new classes through potd because you can get to 70 inside potd pretty quick and practice all the new abilities along the way before you actually level them to 70.

Which means they will use their main classes for story content and probably won't affect the DF queues quite as bad as you think.

I certainly hope i'm wrong, just observing a trend in forums and reddit, usually i'd consider it a loud minority, but these posts get hundreds upon hundreds of posts, so that worries me a bit. I'm a tank main switching to SAM myself, so part of the problem i guess :-\

[Velthice]

There should be a lottery and the lucky winners will get locked out of everything but tank classes or healer classes for a month, when a new lottery will take place. It'll be like that one book, but instead of getting stoned to death you have tank or heal dungeons.

You know where to send the check SE

[Rizvu]

How do you know? do you have an accurate way of measuring the distance between where, say, i am and where you define the sky to start/stop? maybe the ozone layer is coming closer, you dont know!!! my god, i dont either! *panics*