So people are defending the msq dc exploit

[Iscah]

Did you actually wait?! I had 7min wait time turn into over 50 minutes on more than one occasion. "Wait time" doesn't mean much, it's just a prediction.

I didn't wait for the DPS queue, because I wanted to level my tank, and didn't want or need to take up a DPS slot. I did wait as tank, and did get in quickly.

"Average wait time" means exactly that - an average of how long people have recently had to wait in the queue. There can always be anomalies where a lot of people queued at once by chance, or a stretch where nobody joins the queue with the right classes to make up a full party, but on average it should be accurate. Though admittedly I should have done it a few times over an hour or so to see if it was varying or staying fairly constant.

Generally, there are two points where the prediction can be badly out: at a time where a decreasing number of people are joining the queue (eg. as more people finish up later at night), and certain times when you queue directly for a single dungeon.

Specifically, if you queue for a dungeon and it says the average wait is "less than five minutes", it's quite likely this is incorrect - because if you're the only person to queue for it over the period it calculates from, it has the unhelpful quirk of still giving you "the average" of how long all the people have been waiting. You've been waiting for one minute? The average wait time is less than five minutes!

On the other hand, if it does give you an estimate with a specific number of minutes, I'm fairly sure it's going to be an accurate indicator of how long other people have been waiting. Again, not a guarantee that you'll have the same wait time, but likely to be similar. Busier roulettes will be increasingly constant.