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    Jotunhammer's Avatar
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    Spearhawk Hawkwing
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    Phantom
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    Reaper Lv 76

    40-50 minutes duty finder wait time

    Is there really no help for this, to sit around with this time sink is insane. as DPS to have to wait 40 to 50 minutes to get into a dungeon in order to progress the storyline.
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    I am the light in the darkness and the darkness in the light

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    Bo Bo
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    Balmung
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    Goldsmith Lv 50
    level a tank ....wait time will be 1 min... it will always be much much longer for dps in such system, everyone wants to dps
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    M'ete'leskum B'leskum
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    Moogle
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    Conjurer Lv 50
    Well - that's DPS for you. First of all - you don't really need to sit there and stare at the screen - that's why you have the DF - just sign up and go around doing some other stuff in game in the meantime (or even IRL). What also helps a lot to decrease the waiting times is to select all the languages instead of just the default one preselected in DF (if indeed youdn't mind being matched with player who might not speak your language).
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    Last edited by HEC; 09-09-2013 at 10:00 PM.

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    Age Ofwar
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    Hyperion
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    Black Mage Lv 80
    it is kinda bad.
    I here the wait times for healers and tanks is a lot less.
    personally I just don't have the focus to try the duty finder as these jobs.
    what I tend to do is pick up a lot of quests or leve's and throw the Duty finder on.
    the only issue I have had is summoning my chocobo, instance quests and picking up duty finder content mid leve and having it auto fail.
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    Andros Dyrstwyrn
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    Cerberus
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    Arcanist Lv 50
    Hi, there are a lot of DPS classes compare to Tank and Healers. so there is no way to speed up the duty finder waiting time.

    You can form your own group, shouting, or with the help of Free Company or a Linkshell
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    M'ete'leskum B'leskum
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    Moogle
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    Conjurer Lv 50
    Even having one more player in party with you will increase the chances of being joined by DF (unless indeed you're both DPS at which case it wouldn't do much difference).
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    Jaminos Talon
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    Exodus
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    Gladiator Lv 50
    I am really glad I am a tank. Any dungeon finder in any MMO is always going to have a slow wait time for DPS. No offense, but your the most expendable member of a party. A tank or healer leave or die, your in trouble. DPS goes down, well...you still have one more left. This of course will change with higher end dungeons where you need everyone alive or you lose. Like inSWTOR, if you failed to DPS a boss down in a certain amount of time, they would enrage and everyone would die. Other MMO's have that mechanic as well.
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    Age Ofwar
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    Hyperion
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    Black Mage Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by Jaminos View Post
    I am really glad I am a tank. Any dungeon finder in any MMO is always going to have a slow wait time for DPS. No offense, but your the most expendable member of a party. A tank or healer leave or die, your in trouble. DPS goes down, well...you still have one more left. This of course will change with higher end dungeons where you need everyone alive or you lose. Like inSWTOR, if you failed to DPS a boss down in a certain amount of time, they would enrage and everyone would die. Other MMO's have that mechanic as well.
    I think that mechanic is demon wall in AK which from what I hear instant kills you if you can't kill it in time. I have yet to do this dungeon mind you
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    Aries Fellhammer
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    Behemoth
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    White Mage Lv 60
    I load he DF, wait 2-3 seconds, I'm in as a DPS. But play times can adjust that time frame. Early morning hours in EST zone and I wait from 5-20 minutes, evening hours and weekends are no problem.
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    “What if life was like a vapor, rising up from the heated viscosity of our existence? One minute it is thick and robust, full of depth, but instantly it changed and separated to near nothingness. What would it be like at the apex of separation? That point when all the steam has left your existence….”

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    Age Ofwar
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    Black Mage Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by EmptyFibers View Post
    I load he DF, wait 2-3 seconds, I'm in as a DPS. But play times can adjust that time frame. Early morning hours in EST zone and I wait from 5-20 minutes, evening hours and weekends are no problem.
    I think it also depends on what DF content you are trying to do. try doing a DF on copperbell mines and you will likely be waiting a long time on a dps role where as try on AK and you will likely be in, in a few mins
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