Duty Joining.

[kikix12]

For crying out loud, 'fix' this godd***** necessity to switch to a class you queued up for a duty with. I just lost a duty because I entered into a battle as a tank just as the queue popped and I did not finish the battle until there were only three seconds left on it. And I couldn't change class!

I lost half an hour of waiting (queued as a samurai) just because the stupid game needs me to manually switch, which cannot be done in many situations that players tend to be in when waiting for it to pop in the first place when waiting.

And why?! Because the developers don't care to auto-change?! I can be in the middle of a fight when accepting the queue. I can be in the middle of playing triple triad. In the middle of shopping, using retainers...anything. But if I'm on the right class. Because, for some stupid reason, the game doesn't even attempt to do the switching.


I suggest the game try and put on the top-most gear-set from the list for the respective class. If it can, great. It will put you in the duty and, when switching out, ideally switch back to the original, but that's not necessary. I prefer to die than lose half an hour of waiting for a duty, and if I don't want to die, I can still ignore the pop-up like I'm FORCED to do right now. If it cannot be done due to inventory issues (often being a bug, but whatever)?! Then just return an error. No job switching, no nothing. Simple. Then players don't have to waste time only for the sake of avoiding to waste even MORE time.


And no, I could not avoid it by not entering a fight with low queue. It popped straight from 5. When I once sat at 2 for 15 minutes, 5 is way too much to depend on.

[Bacent]

You could have ran from the fight. I've seen people 'complain' about this, when they could have just ran from the fight, and queue'd with no problem at all.

[kikix12]

You could have ran from the fight. I've seen people 'complain' about this, when they could have just ran from the fight, and queue'd with no problem at all.

I tried, and I regret it, cause I'd have few seconds spare otherwise. Running is not always an option.

EDIT: Now that I have a bit more time, sometimes running is not really possible or likely, for whatever reason. There may be many mobs around, the terrain may be restricting, the mobs may chase for some distance. And when they "drop", you still cannot change class until THEY get back to their spot and for few seconds after (just like how I was locked out after killing the mob this time around too).

And, besides, why should players, especially DPS which are already hurt by the queues, get hurt even more by it when a system change would remove the issue entirely?! There is no reason why the system shouldn't work like that. It is one of these quality of life changes that should be welcomed by every player out there, and I can think of no detriment to it.


I know that I can run, and when possible, I will. I know that it sucks to change class if I'll start the battle already, so if the queue is low, I will not enter one in the first place. I prefer to spend those extra 3-5 minutes doing something that I can cancel at any time/do with the class I queue with. However, sometimes neither is an option, and then it's back to the queue again.

[Bacent]

Run the moment it pops then? More than ample time.

[Metalwrath]

So let me get this straight?You decided to spend your 40 seconds you had to kill a monster instead of walking away hitting the accept button.You've just made those other 7 people wait longer in df and somehow you're the victim?

[kikix12]

So let me get this straight?You decided to spend your 40 seconds you had to kill a monster instead of walking away hitting the accept button.You've just made those other 7 people wait longer in df and somehow you're the victim?

No. I tried to run, but the mob did not want to 'latch off' by the time I reached a spot I could run no further...cause you know, terrain and stuff. I can't just take a mount and fly away in battle.

And I'm not talking victims or anything. I am (though yes, at the time I did write the original post I was quite irked) posting this as a suggestion for a very useful quality of life update that would affect almost every person in the game, unlike the quality of life updates that they give which mostly affect small groups of people.

[HyoMinPark]

No. I tried to run, but the mob did not want to 'latch off' by the time I reached a spot I could run no further...cause you know, terrain and stuff. I can't just take a mount and fly away in battle.

And I'm not talking victims or anything. I am (though yes, at the time I did write the original post I was quite irked) posting this as a suggestion for a very useful quality of life update that would affect almost every person in the game, unlike the quality of life updates that they give which mostly affect small groups of people.

I also get annoyed when you’re doing sidequests or beast tribes and your queue pops...but at the same time, you have 40 seconds to disengage, switch, and accept. I just try to keep an eye out on the queue number (even though in-progress can make it pop before you ever reach the top) and refrain from doing much when I’m around #4 or so.

[kikix12]

I also get annoyed when you’re doing sidequests or beast tribes and your queue pops...but at the same time, you have 40 seconds to disengage, switch, and accept. I just try to keep an eye out on the queue number (even though in-progress can make it pop before you ever reach the top) and refrain from doing much when I’m around #4 or so.

Same...but as I said, it did enter #5 at the time. I expected to be able to finish one battle on time, and if not for trying to run, I would. In the last seconds, but hey.

I had the queue pop at 8 and once even at some number over 10. 12 or 14 or something like that. As a DPS, solo. That was when the queue popped in about a minute, shortly after the queue numbers were even retrieved, for leveling roulette (and was "under 5min"), so I guess it was just that super-rare perfect timing. But hey, it happens.

Hence why this post. I know that I did make use of it to vent on the side as well, since the queue popped exactly when I entered the combat and class switching became unlocked literally when the queue closed, but that doesn't mean it's all about that.

[Canopia]

this is why when I am in queue, I just dont do anything, especially if its a queue shorter than 15m. Just stand there, play a phone app or something then click accept when it pops.

[Joe777]

this is why when I am in queue, I just dont do anything, especially if its a queue shorter than 15m.

Same here. Queue pops always like to happen when it's most inconvenient for you as you do something else while waiting.