Incentivise tanks and healers to actually play the game please.

[cactusking]

Re. making tanks/heals want to queue:

A certain other game, similar to this one, had loot bags that players could receive for queuing as the role that was needed most. These could contain anything from money to gems to mounts and non-combat pets. Honestly, it's not a bad system, and it'd be better than giving players obsolete currencies like GC seals and poetics.

For a different take on the issue, the game mentioned above as well as a different, but similar game, added in something like micro-dungeons that didn't really require strict roles. If I remember right, one of the games even had ones that one person could do on their own, sort of like the mini-duties that you see in story quests in this exact game we're playing right now. The majority of them were 2+, but a few were definitely single-player. Just imagine how nice it would be for dps to queue for a mini-dungeon and not have to wait for tanks or healers.

[Jas710]

I would queue as tank more often if there was any value for doing it as max level, but as my tanks start maxing, I add to the problem, queuing as dps more frequently so that my DPS roles can benefit from the roulette xp.

If I could queue as tank and transfer that XP to an alt in some way, maybe via a consumable item, I'd be running far more roulettes as tank.

That is not a bad idea. Give consumable xp items that can be obtained only while on your tank, and can be used only on your non-tank jobs. Granted, an argument could be made of players not learning their dps skill set, but it wouldn't be that much different than it now is. A fair trade-off, as far as incentives go, anyway. There's still the toxic atmosphere to address.

[Anienai]

There's still the toxic atmosphere to address.

That is the main reason for the lack of tanks/healers.

[Zero_Griever]

I love tanking, the problem is I can only do high end content for my mount achievement.

The problem is this requires content 61-70.

The PROBLEM WITH THIS is I want to do it quickly, so I do the shortest deltascape.

The problem with this is i'll never see leveling.

[Mekhana]

I got the mount just through roulettes although I was doing them mostly to cash in on the VI materia some were going for 300k at the time. Made some decent bucks.

[Hestzhyen]

Well I got my healers to 70, leveled a few DPS classes, and now I'm leveling tanks. Problem is there's three tanks, three healers, and nine DPS as far as jobs go. So even though I'm leveling tanks for now I'll eventually have nothing left but DPS if I want to keep seeing those numbers go up. Even though I'm "doing my part" so to speak, eventually I will be yet another DPS clogging up the queues. And I won't be joining queues that give EXP as level 70 jobs when I have other jobs that can use the EXP bonuses.

I can't think of a game where there were equal numbers of people playing tanks, healers, and DPS roles. If you go with the trinity you do so knowing that most of your players are going to be damage dealers. SE could open up the frequently clogged dungeon roulettes (50/60 in particular) with better incentives or even going so far as to change the party comp to 1 tank, 1 healer, 3 DPS, but that would require a great deal of care and resource investment to basically re-calibrate the strength of enemies and mechanics timings. I hope next expac we get some more healer and/or tank jobs... even if new jobs don't change the overall amount of people playing as a particular role, they give serial levelers like me more time to be an in-demand job rather than yet another soul stuck in limbo waiting for queue to pop.

[Zero_Griever]

The ability to unlock alternative animations.

"Complete leveling roulette 200 times as a Dark Knight."

Dark Knights - Glamour "Scourge" over "Souleater".

Problem solved.

[Marveth]

The ability to unlock alternative animations.

"Complete leveling roulette 200 times as a Dark Knight."

Dark Knights - Glamour "Scourge" over "Souleater".

Problem solved.

Man Square Enix are not gods, that would take a programmer like five whole minutes to do. Lower your expectation man.

[Catsby]

It seems like itemization and the SB reworked role abilities devastated the leveling process. If you were really desperate before you could tank as a dps but now you basically need a tank. It fucking sucks.

They should just rework role/extra actions again and in the mean time beef up outlets for exp. Quests and the open world give you virtually nothing compared to dungeons.

Also, open a couple grey slots for light party in DF.

[Mekhana]

IMO leveling combat classes is just a needless grind. Role exp/level should be shared across the board. If you leveled a WAR to 70 for instance, DRK and PLD would be 70 too. Same with heals, melee, rdps and so on.

Even if they make running roulette on the job locked behind some requirements. Like to unlock 50/60 roulette you need to run 10 leveling, to unlock expert you need to do 10 trials and so on.