Discouraged by Que timers

[HyoMinPark]

It’s honestly not surprising that DPS have longer queues than tanks or healers if you sit down and really think about it.

Compare the number of available tank/healer jobs to the number of available DPS jobs—there are far more of the latter than the former. And then consider how DPS jobs are relatively “free of responsibility” in a lot of the content in this game—they aren’t responsible for “guiding” or “leading” a party (tank) or keeping people alive (healers); they just hit the things and call it a day. Think about both of those things, and you have your answer as to why their queues are so much longer than tanks or healers. More people are simply more attracted to them.

There’s not much you can do about mitigating queues if you are solo-queueing for roulettes or just running dungeons. Hence why people have suggested trying to find tank or healer friends that you can do stuff with a couple nights a week. I leveled some of my DPS jobs when I first started by partying with friends going on a tank or a healer class to make the wait not as long. And we had lots of fun playing together. I have a friend that we alternate playing tanks/healers to give the other faster queues on a DPS (even for things like Expert Roulette).

You also have options outside of dungeons, as others have mentioned: PotD for levels 1~60 and HoH for levels 61~70. Though, I am sympathetic to how boring mindlessly grinding both of them can be; they do typically have faster queues for the “grinding” floors. There are also beast tribes and the good ol’ FATE grinding. I would personally recommend doing a bit of FATE grinding with your chocobo while you were waiting for a queue—that way you are still “playing the game”, and you can add in some EXP. I don’t have issues with just sitting back and doing other stuff while I’m waiting on a queue, but if you want to actively “be playing the game”, doing extra content like beast tribes and FATEs during your wait is the best way to achieve that goal.

Also, forget about those ridiculous "juzz make friendz wizz healerz and tankz and you'd be fineeeheheh". As if this is done so easily and they are not your slaves then; they also have something to do, are not online, not both online, not wanting to go with the other person, rather with friends or FC mates etc. etc. Some people here are really Captains of the Obvious-wannabes without doing the reality check first...[I]"You are unemployed? Make friends with a managers and business owners and apply for a job then derp herp".

I mean, it is legitimate advice to make friends with other players and queue up to do stuff together. I don’t know why you have to be so upset over it.