Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
It'll suck for anyone queuing up for level 50+ dungeons though, those queues will never fill.
So, my alt has never unlocked Crystal Tower, because she's not yet reached patch 5.3 and been forced to; she's about halfway through ShB, so can only get Mhach or Ivalice raids right now. If I queue solo for Alliance roulette on that character, I will usually wait over an hour before roulette pops. Sometimes upwards of two hours. (Queuing with others does reduce the time, though it's still pretty bad.)

Some of that is because there are people who do Crystal Tower (because it's now required to move on into Heavensward, and was required to move into 5.3) who have never bothered with other alliance raids. Some of that is because the game has had an influx of newcomers in the past months due to Pandemic Fire Hellscape World 2020 (seriously, screw this year) and because the free trial now extends through Heavensward, and so the playerbase is definitely weighted towards content below level 60 (and again, anyone wanting to progress into Heavensward now has to do the Crystal Tower raids).

But it's still painful. And that's queuing with six potential non-Crystal-Tower raids I can run. If I were queuing for, say, Orbonne directly, I hate to imagine how long the queue would be.

And when I try to mentally apply that same experience to people queuing to do a specific leveling dungeon they actually need for MSQ progression, I just have to wince.