5 minute average queue time.

[lordnaarghul]

It literally becomes an hour.

Make tanks easier and more rewarding to play. To wait this long to advance the MSQ, this is ridiculous.

[Arrius]

It literally becomes an hour.

Make tanks easier and more rewarding to play. To wait this long to advance the MSQ, this is ridiculous.

Then play a tank. Or a healer.

Be flexible, and you never will have problems with such queues. If not, then you have to sit down and wait like everyone else.

[lordnaarghul]

Then play a tank. Or a healer.

Be flexible, and you never will have problems with such queues. If not, then you have to sit down and wait like everyone else.

I get the point here but it really shouldn't be so necessary to play certain classes just to advance the MSQ in a timely manner. I've been around the block regarding this, but it's far worse now.

[Arrius]

I get the point here but it really shouldn't be so necessary to play certain classes just to advance the MSQ in a timely manner. I've been around the block regarding this, but it's far worse now.

Because, simply, playing DPS in every MMO comes with the drawback of longer queue times than the other roles.
You aren't the only one telling this, and it simply gets tiring to see this every couple of weeks, even though the players are responsible for that problem in the first place.

[RuleofThree]

I get the point here but it really shouldn't be so necessary to play certain classes just to advance the MSQ in a timely manner. I've been around the block regarding this, but it's far worse now.

You realize pretty much everyone says this, right? Everyone wants someone else to play the tank, so they can play dps.

[Sigma-Astra]

I've been around the block regarding this, but it's far worse now.

Far worse as of now...? DPS queue times were always horrid and they'll always stay that way regardless. Did you forget the horrid queue times when everyone wanted to play Samurai and Red Mage or something...?

The design itself is flawed. They need to step away from the holy trinity and embrace the true spirit of a final fantasy.

Most of the other Final Fantasy games have a trinity regardless of the battle system that may have been used at the time. This is the true spirit of Final Fantasy. You had tanking characters, support characters, and damage dealers. They've been embracing the holy trinity every iteration of their games, you just don't notice it right away or it didn't feel like it entirely.

For example, FFX still follows the trinity aspect in a sense. You had character better suited towards tanking at first, characters that made better healers or casters, and characters that were strictly for damage. Only near the end of FFX could you start putting people through the Sphere Grid that essentially made everyone a tank, healer, or DPS....but, even then some people were still better at than others.

[Floortank]

Tank is the easiest of the three roles.

[Floortank]

No one wants to do the MSQ roulette.

I watched my friend queue for it on stream the other day. It took her 20 minutes to get into the duty and then another 30 to get through all the cutscenes. A whole hour is not worth the reward for most people.

[lordnaarghul]

No one wants to do the MSQ roulette.

I watched my friend queue for it on stream the other day. It took her 20 minutes to get into the duty and then another 30 to get through all the cutscenes. A whole hour is not worth the reward for most people.

This was just to do Susano, not Meridianum or Prae. This was Stormblood trial roulette.

[Driskus]

This was just to do Susano, not Meridianum or Prae. This was Stormblood trial roulette.

Its not just DPS that get long queue times, they just have them more often since there's more people playing DPS than tanks and healers. I can't count the number of times I've waited 20+ minutes in queues as a healer or tank. We're not immune from it either.