Why is duty finder wrong?

[Ftail]

I started a thread awhile back asking about this and here’s a helpful reply I received. “Adventure in need is updated periodically not whenever you open the duty finder menu. Its given to whatever the roulette needs more of to balance queue times over the next period of it updates. This including every instance in its roulette, even people only queueing for a single instance. Take like puppets bunker might need 1 tank 1 healer and up to 7 dps it'll say tank because it has a higher weight because the instance needs less. But you queue as a healer and get say world of darkness instantly, it wasnt trying to balance out that as much but duty finder tries to lessen queues if a instance would be full rather then the longer waiting queues. Whenever you queue you get locked in for that bonus, even if it changes before duty finder finder a instance for you.”

[MagicAura]

I started a thread awhile back asking about this and here’s a helpful reply I received. “Adventure in need is updated periodically not whenever you open the duty finder menu. Its given to whatever the roulette needs more of to balance queue times over the next period of it updates. This including every instance in its roulette, even people only queueing for a single instance. Take like puppets bunker might need 1 tank 1 healer and up to 7 dps it'll say tank because it has a higher weight because the instance needs less. But you queue as a healer and get say world of darkness instantly, it wasnt trying to balance out that as much but duty finder tries to lessen queues if a instance would be full rather then the longer waiting queues. Whenever you queue you get locked in for that bonus, even if it changes before duty finder finder a instance for you.”

This sums up my observations perfectly. Out of curiosity I've left the duty finder open to see how often it updates the window and it's seconds rather than minutes. Not sure the exact amount of seconds, could be 30 or more. Matching thousands of people, taking into account their personal limitations of what they have unlocked, their jobs, their place in the queue together with individual requests for specific dungeons, is extremely complicated and I believe the duty finder works really well for what it needs to do. The OP assessment that it's wrong is incorrect.

[Jennah]

... do people actually go for the "in-need" bonus? For reasons other than "well, maybe it'll pop faster"? Huh.

[Anienai]

... do people actually go for the "in-need" bonus? For reasons other than "well, maybe it'll pop faster"? Huh.

I'll sit with the tab up til "Tank in need" pops.

[Lumivyory]

... do people actually go for the "in-need" bonus? For reasons other than "well, maybe it'll pop faster"? Huh.

The main reason to wait for "In need" bonus has always been the huge amount of extra experience for being the right role. At least for me. Why settle for less exp?

[KDSilver]

... do people actually go for the "in-need" bonus? For reasons other than "well, maybe it'll pop faster"? Huh.

Yes.
Materias.

[Raltar]

The other night, I saw DPS as needed, so I queued as a tank as I normally do because I'm working on getting the mounts and it popped instantly.

[Rongway]

You have to remember that the AIN and average wait time are calculated across the entire roulette, not just the duties that you yourself have access to. There could be a higher level dungeon that's been waiting for a tank for twenty minutes, while all the duties that you have access to already have tanks on deck.

[Ariel_Valmont]

I think what kills me is when it says "average wait time: 10 minutes"

"Okay, I'm gonna go grab a drink real quick, maybe give my legs a bit of a stretch..."

*queue pops 30 seconds later*

Every single @&$!ing time.