Allow players to queue for multiple duties at the same time

[Jojoya]

I'm seeing a lot of concern about how to level once MSQ roulette goes away because so many players found it an easy way to get XP.

MSQ roulette really wasn't that exceptional for XP when you considered the time spent in the duty. You could do 3 level appropriate dungeons in the same amount of time it would take to complete Praetorium and get about the same XP.

The big difference is that you would only have to sit through a queue wait once for MSQ roulette to get that triple XP. If you are using dungeons to get it, you have 3 separate queue waits eating into your time. While there is other content you can do while waiting, it's still an annoyance.

This is where something could be borrowed from WoW. Back when I was still playing (and assume it's probably still true), players could queue for 3 different LFR wings at the same time. You'd be placed in the first available wing while your position in queue would continue for the other two. Usually the second wing would be ready as soon as you completed the first, and the third would be ready on completion of the second. That way you effectively had just a single queue wait instead of 3 separate waits.

It would be nice if something similar were implemented here with Duty Finder. Allow players to queue for up to 3 different duties/roulettes at the same time and have their positions in queue maintained for the subsequent duties. It would ease some of the frustration in leveling additional jobs caused by waits in queue.

[Avatre]

Other than roulettes, you can queue for 5 different duties at once. Whichever one fills first is the one you get to go into.

[TaleraRistain]

What do you mean by a wing being ready? Are these instances in WoW that depend on each other?

Also, how would the game hold your position in the queue once you go into an instance? It would move the next person in the queue up so they could get their chance to fill in the next available spot.

[Krotoan]

Other than roulettes, you can queue for 5 different duties at once. Whichever one fills first is the one you get to go into.

I think the problem OP is stating is that they want to be able to pop the queue serially. As in while doing the first they want to keep position in the 2nd and 3rd and be able to pop straight into those after the first is done.

Right now you can queue for 5, but as soon as you get one you drop out of the other 4.

[Jeeqbit]

You can queue for 5 already, just not roulettes.

[Avatre]

I think the problem OP is stating is that they want to be able to pop the queue serially. As in while doing the first they want to keep position in the 2nd and 3rd and be able to pop straight into those after the first is done.

Right now you can queue for 5, but as soon as you get one you drop out of the other 4.

And that in itself would cause problems quite likely with reserving a spot while they are already bound by a duty. Most likely doing something like that would hinder other people from getting into a duty in a timely manner, and essentially cause the person queueing like that to end up jumping the line of people who have been waiting for a duty to pop

[Krotoan]

And that in itself would cause problems quite likely with reserving a spot while they are already bound by a duty. Most likely doing something like that would hinder other people from getting into a duty in a timely manner, and essentially cause the person queueing like that to end up jumping the line of people who have been waiting for a duty to pop

Yup. Those are the inherent problems if you just stack that ontop of what we have now.

[RobynDaBank]

Honestly on the surface, the idea to allow peeps to queue into multiple Roulettes is great. But, I really wonder how technically spaghetti it would be. Probably some new issue with 1.0 bases will crop up again!

[Shuuli]

They are trying to solve this issue is by making everything work with Trust system.

Like atm, if I want to level a dps, I will go to my squadron and run dungeons with my squadron up until lvl 50. This will help me avoid the queue, but it is very slooooooow and sometimes frustrating. (As some mechancis are not well designed with squadron bots, e.g.: healer bot does not know how to remove doom...)

Not to mention, squadron missions can give you 15% exp bonus scrolls which can be used to level.

They said that their final goal is to make everything work with Trust system and squadrons are ignored now because of that.

[Shougun]

I think the problem OP is stating is that they want to be able to pop the queue serially. As in while doing the first they want to keep position in the 2nd and 3rd and be able to pop straight into those after the first is done.

Right now you can queue for 5, but as soon as you get one you drop out of the other 4.

It hurt me you didn't have a like lol.

Real world example for me might be something like Disney's old fast pass system, where you'd go grab a ticket and need to come back later for a window of time for your turn in one content and meanwhile could do another content while waiting.