Incentives to NOT queue as DPS

[Galgarion]

Hi there. Healer main here.

So the queues have been totally awful since Stormblood's launch because RDM and SAM are super cool and everyone wants to play them, including me, who would love nothing more than to be binging RDM with everyone else. However, the imbalance divide between heal/tank and DPS is so awful that I feel too guilty to really do much DPSing. Seeing all my DPS friends struggle to get queues, I leveled AST first just to help everyone out because I knew how bad things were gonna be in this regard.

I think that they need to add some kind of good noodle star system essentially so that if you play heal/tank you get priority queues if you queue as a DPS afterwards. Kind of a karma balance. Similar to how in LoL, if you support in Draft Pick, you're guaranteed not to be autofilled into a role you don't want and given priority to what you like when you queue afterwards. I think adding something like that might help to make everyone's lives a little less miserable.

You're so sweet, SweetestTart. You seem like a nice person. But I think the issue is primarily a social one; FFXIV is a social game. Introverts who refuse to speak with other people and befriend tanks and healers, or join Free Companies, are doomed to over-reliance on the duty finder, and long queue times. I'm telling you, Tank players love it, love it, when people ask them to run dungeons for them. It's flattering to the ego and makes them feel useful. But if someone doesn't make the effort to chat them up, what can you do?

I've been playing these games for way too long, and one thing I've noticed is that people just don't chat anymore. FFXIV can be as isolating as riding the train to work. Lots of people are there, but no one says anything. I won't lay the blame completely on the young people, but I will say you guys are way too shy.

[YitharV2]

You're so sweet, SweetestTart. You seem like a nice person. But I think the issue is primarily a social one; FFXIV is a social game. Introverts who refuse to speak with other people and befriend tanks and healers, or join Free Companies, are doomed to over-reliance on the duty finder, and long queue times. I'm telling you, Tank players love it, love it, when people ask them to run dungeons for them. It's flattering to the ego and makes them feel useful. But if someone doesn't make the effort to chat them up, what can you do?

I've been playing these games for way too long, and one thing I've noticed is that people just don't chat anymore. FFXIV can be as isolating as riding the train to work. Lots of people are there, but no one says anything. I won't lay the blame completely on the young people, but I will say you guys are way too shy.

Yeah, I think a lot of players need to make friends with tanks and healers. The fact is the majority of the population prefers to play DPS. That's just how it is.

Well, I personally can be pretty cliquey with my FC and my friends. I'm quite talkative in FC chat, but I don't generally say much outside of it. For me, I won't deny that I'm a shy person, but it's also that I'm somewhat cynical. I've been burned a few times in the past so sometimes I don't feel the effort is worth it.

[TheSweetestTart]

You're so sweet, SweetestTart. You seem like a nice person.

Aw, jeez. Thank you! I see where I must've come off in my initial post like I personally just wanted faster queues, but it seems like if we got more people to play heals/tank, even if it's not so much to main it as it's just a bump in the road before they can go back to their DPS main, the end result would still be that there's more healer/tanks in circulation, so all DPS players would benefit from it. If there's more people playing the roles in high demand, then things should sort of deflate, right? And I think it'd be helpful all around if everyone was encouraged through the system to try to understand what each other does. Having gotten SAM/MNK/DRK to 60, and knowing what those classes do lets me heal them and dole out AST cards even more effectively, so even if they're not my mains, there's nothing to lose and everything to gain from it, you know?