Don't like DPS queue time? Roll a tank or healer!

[Fredco191]

Yeah I would....



If I wasn't completely untrust worthy with the lives of other people.

[Mikhaill]

I already knew this topic was going to be going a certain way when I saw his name, the pvp guy lol. he may get dps deleted at this rate.

[HyoMinPark]

I'm pretty sure it's a "Me Me Me!" thing that more people aren't willing to level tanks and healers first. But I could be wrong...

I fail to see how people choosing to level a DPS job they love and are good at versus a tank/healer job they don't love and may or may not be good at is a bad thing. God forbid people play the job they actually want to play! As much as I love AST (DRK's changes pain me right now, so I haven't touched the job), my main will always be BRD. Same for many other DPS mains here. How are we in the wrong for wanting to play something we enjoy, versus playing something others think we should play for the "greater good" basically? Why should some sacrifice to accommodate others? I fail to understand your logic here...

As someone else already mentioned, tanks and healers got shafted with some of the changes (WAR and SCH in particular), and many have abandoned those jobs in favor of other jobs. So the issues with tank and healer gameplay need to be addressed if players want others to start rolling the jobs. Again, I know DRK is better at 70, but looking at my DRK now at 60 is just painful. In addition, tanks and healers also get instantly blamed for any and all mistakes made in most content, regardless if it was their mistake or not, and are under far more scrutiny than a DPS job. Some people don't enjoy that sort of responsibility, and that's fine and understandable.

I think people complain because the dev team said that DF queues "won't be that bad" based off of "numbers" they had from Heavensward, but that queues have, for the meantime, remained higher than usual during peak times, and especially for Roulettes (I spend 45 minutes minimum in Expert Roulette as a DPS, frequently "After #50", when that was rarely the case before). Leveling dungeons are still relatively the same, wait time wise, I think. Couple this with other things like Early Access Raubahn Savage, server instability/overload, and DDoS, people are already more frustrated than usual when they come to vent.

[Priya]

Millennials are the most impatient entitled people ever, and if you don't give them what they want, then they passively aggressively threaten to harm you, your friends or themselves to try and guilt you into helping.

If someone's threatening to harm you or themselves, you should report them to the proper people. Idk what calling them names will accomplish.

[AsahinaMyLove]

But: 4.0 killed all the fun playing as tank or healer! <.<

[KisaiTenshi]

If someone's threatening to harm you or themselves, you should report them to the proper people. Idk what calling them names will accomplish.

You have no idea what I've been through. People do not know personal boundaries in a MMO's ends at THIS MMO.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

You have no idea what I've been through. People do not know personal boundaries in a MMO's ends at THIS MMO.

Was it being mocked for lecturing people on how to play healers when you hadn't even completed half of Heavensward? I hear that can be a little traumatizing.

[Feidam]

Apparently so.

In any case, SB launched with two DPS classes. I'm surprised that so many people are complaining about the DPS queue times, given the fact that everyone knew that oodles of people would be playing RDM's and SAM's.

I'm pretty sure it's a "Me Me Me!" thing that more people aren't willing to level tanks and healers first. But I could be wrong...

On average on aether data center the dps queue times are coming down to almost HW levels before the expansion. Sometimes they spike a bit but overall it is doing exactly what folks said it would and are normalizing.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

Except healers and tanks are quite crappy right now.
In fact, it's less fun to play them now than it ever was, and this is coming off of the excuse that SE didn't make a tank and healer jobs for SB because they wanted to focus on making them more fun and balanced.

[Kukajoo]

People forget party finder exists, i often go there on dps to find a party quickly. And if a party does not exist for what you need, then simply make one. For roulette's and newer content it can take maybe ten minutes, fifteen at most for a tank or healer to join which often times, kind tanks and healers do check party finder before just jumping in queue, not to mention that people from across worlds can join vastly increasing the chance you'll find a friendly tank/healer to ease your queue time. It's much better than queuing alone and getting hit with that full 40-50 min wait time.