(Suggestion) Queuing as high demand Job

[Nikito]

If you queue as a needed job in a roulette in most cases Tank/Healer. Your next queue as "Non-Demand" job for example DPS, should be moved way up in the queue and prioritized so you don't have to wait nearly as long.

People will complain, yes but at the same time many will create Healers and Tanks and play them more often so their DPS does not have to wait as long. At the same time dungeon ques will be shorter.

[Rongway]

This would also give people who main tanks and healers a reason not to play tank or healer half the time, increasing queue times for DDs.

[Rhais]

People would just do something like guildhest roulette with a needed job to get priority on everything else.

[Vidu]

You can create a system like this yourself: Just queue together with a friend, taking turns healing/tanking. Thats basically how my partner and I are leveling all our jobs - one of us gets a tank/healer to 80, the other one a dps and then we switch.

I dont think we need anything that makes the matching process more complicated or yet another incentive for tanks/healers to run content. At a certain point you gotta face the facts and that is that there will always be more dps-players than tanks and healers, no matter how much you try to get people to play something they dont want to play.

[KalinOrthos]

This effectively de-incentivizes tanks and healers from queuing up as tanks and healers half the time, seeing as how they can fast-pass their way to the front. It makes the problem even worse by adding even more damage dealers into the queue.

The fact is, people who play tanks and healers, do so because they want to play tanks and healers. They have a predisposition to wanting to play that role. This is why, after the release of a new tank or healer, you'll see a sharp drop-off of people who are playing those roles; the people who actually WANT to play that role will stay, and everyone else will move on. Damage dealers, on the other hand, don't want to play those roles and so they don't. We already have an abundance of incentives to play in-demand roles, including exclusive mounts, higher roulette rewards, etc., and if that's not enough to bring people into the role, then not much else is going to do so. They could buff tank damage, or make healer DPS rotations interesting; that would still not change the amount of people in those roles, and this has been proven time and time and time again with every MMO ever made that follows the holy trinity of roles.

I get it. Waiting in a queue can be frustrating. That's why you have so much you can do in the meantime: gather, craft, and play the market board to earn some extra gil; track down hunts to earn some extra bursts of experience and some currency; FATE grind, which, in ShB means a lot more now that you get more items opened up to you as you do more FATEs in an area; Gold Saucer; hanging out in shout chat; creating new glamour plates; the list goes on and on. If you're sitting in one place, staring at the timer counting up, waiting and waiting, then you're wasting time better spent on doing other things while you wait for your queue to pop.

If you REALLY want to cut down on queue times? Play a tank or healer. Trust me, it's not nearly as bad as many people make it out to be.

[Rasikko]

I wanna say that the waiting as a DPS is really not that long. .but I know I only feel that way because it was the norm in FFXI. 20min to get a party is nothing for me, when I was once before used to waiting 3-4hrs in FFXI.

In anycase, this is just the way things are historically. Damage dealings jobs are always gonna wait the longest because it is the most populated role..