Leveling/playing DPS is actively punished

[cjbeagle]

A typical group in wow was 1/1/3, tank, healer, dps. Queue times were still anywhere from 7 to 20 minutes if you were a dps. Doesn't quite work as well as you'd think, unfortunately. Not making leveling as dependent on doing dungeons (IE: More than fates) would be a better solution.

The fact that WoW has bad dps queues doesn't disprove the approach - it just means they'd be even worse if WoW had a 1/1/2 ratio. It's just a supply and demand problem - the supply only decreases if the queue times are so long that people drop queue or change their role because of the projected wait, so increase the demand.

EDIT: Overwatch has an interesting solution to this problem, which is a voucher system where you can queue as a tank or healer to earn a voucher, then spend that voucher to cut to the front of the line as dps. For people who don't mind tanking or healing, but do want to dps, but not wait, this allows them get insta-queues as dps by first doing a game as a tank or healer, which many players are perfectly happy to do, however for dps who only want to dps, it still lowers the queue time because of all the people queuing as tanks and healers to earn their vouchers. Disclaimer: I'm not sure if that system is still in place - haven't touched the game in like 3 years - doubt it'd work as well with their new 2/2/2 mandate.