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    Player
    Arlen's Avatar
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    Arlen Bales
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    Sargatanas
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 50

    Duty Finder- Healer

    I am currently leveling ACN. I really wanted to play the dungeons with ACN. After an hour of waiting, I said heck with it and changed to WHM and resubmitted. Instant PARTY!

    I did the above for all 3 dungeons...waited an hour on ACN and then switched...same result.

    Now, I don't have a problem being the WHM. I leveled it in 1.0 because I enjoy it. However, I feel like I'm getting no practice with ACN. Also, the experience points are lost.

    I realize there are many ACN right now and I bet if we had the numbers for active classes/jobs at a given time, there is no way that they are balanced. If you took the 3 icons for duty finder (healer, dps, tank)and placed the total number of classes/jobs on the server under them, I bet it would be a staggering imbalance.

    What's my point? I don't really have one. Well, I guess you could take away from this....to the player:level a conjurer/whm please...to SE: please add a healing class.
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    La_Dava's Avatar
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    Tridy Ais
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    Brynhildr
    Main Class
    Archer Lv 50
    I came here looking for the same answer. As a DPS, I wait an average of 1.5 hours to get into a party via DF, I can't belive this could happen due to the cross-server duty finder. I find this pretty similar to what happened in FFXI when you had to look for a party for hours, the only difference (and a good one) is that you can do something else while waiting, like FATEs, now I'm level 21 and I'm trying to get into sastasha since lv 16...
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    "Every men die, but not every men really live"

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    Player
    Arlen's Avatar
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    Arlen Bales
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    Sargatanas
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    Arcanist Lv 50
    The good news/bad news is when the scholar surge comes....maybe this will help...maybe not.
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  4. #4
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    CoreyDracovian's Avatar
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    Corey Dracovian
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    Balmung
    Main Class
    Lancer Lv 50
    THe Simple answer is the huge influx of ACN since many Legacy players have that as their only job to level. In time this will fix itself.

    For ACN or THM i go cnj so i can still loot the gear for my primary classes.

    For lancer mnk and archer its a little harder try finding a whm or tank on your server to hit the duty finder with it will speed up your time greatly La_deva and Arlen.
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    Misutoraru's Avatar
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    Misutoraru Valkyrie
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    Cerberus
    Main Class
    Astrologian Lv 100
    it is same problem for all DPS
    it take me average 1 hr in my LNC and 1 hr in my PGL
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    Miska's Avatar
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    Miska Trademere
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    Balmung
    Main Class
    Gladiator Lv 50
    The problem for dps having to wait for a long time is that there is a shortage of Tanks and Healers. The following numbers although are made up, actual numbers may and will vary, but may also be accurate in a sense... Essentially for every Tank made, there is an estimated 50 DPS, for every healer made, there is an estimated 35 dps. So using these numbers, 1 Tank, 1 Healer, 2 Dps, will need 20 tanks in order to fill the slots of 40 DPS. Which I will say, is a lot of tanks! So if the numbers are for example accurate, 20 tanks would equal 1,000 Dps players! That is a huge number. Almost unfathomable. But, the numbers MAY be accurate, but they could also be greatly exaggerated. Suffice to say, Tanks and Healers are least played by a good portion of people because they require the most work. Healers need to keep up with everyone's HP, and if you got a dps that isn't attacking what the tank is attacking, that DPS is getting damage which turns into the Healer having to heal. A tank needs to keep track of all mobs, make sure they are attacking him/her, AND watch for Adds and Patrols. Playing a DPS is extremely easy compared to Healing/Tanking.

    I hope this clears up why as a DPS, your wait times are greatly increased where Tanks/Healers seem to get near instant queues (And to be honest, this is the first MMO I have ever played where as a tank, I have waited 20-30 mins for a queue)
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    Lauren's Avatar
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    Character
    Athelisia Lumi
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    Shiva
    Main Class
    Bard Lv 90
    Maybe during character creation it should show how many people have started with specific classes that day or something? Might encourage those to tank/heal.

    I find that tanks are more starved than healers. Never have problem finding a healer in Duty Finder but the tank always takes a lot longer. I'm not too far away from 50 on my ARC and I'm going to spend the next few classes on TANK and HEALER classes only just to try help a little ^^;;

    ... also I'd like that glorious unicorn.
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  8. #8
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    MrSmiley's Avatar
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    Crysta Elizabeth
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    Lamia
    Main Class
    Bard Lv 90
    healer queue post 30 has been a bit long for my whm pre-30 it was instant
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    _SaInT_'s Avatar
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    Character
    Saint Bus
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    Tonberry
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    Conjurer Lv 50
    yea the DF post 30 is pathetic 1hr queue times
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    Hurtzfield Vanyen
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    Goblin
    Main Class
    Fisher Lv 27
    I am almost level 21, and I can't get past a level 16 storyline quest so I can get closer towards the storyline's introduction to the Big Company's so I can get my mount.
    I started killing mobs for hunting log, but now that I am on mobs that are 8 to 10 levels higher than I am, I can't beat them. So now I am having to go through finding crappy quests to do, like plant flowers outside of Tam-Tara, while I wait for Tam-Tara tanks and healers to show up.

    I know that it's going to be fun when I get into level 30, _SaInT_ says it's better after 30. But I can't get a mount, and I want a mount. I can't even buy one flat out for 10,000 gil if I wanted to, or learn the mount skill for 30,000 gil if I wanted to. You have to do these storylines.

    So either, make a way to not have to queue, or remove the quest all together and just let the players queue for it if they want.
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