40 minutes wait til for Instances....really?

[Garlyle]

So why not queue up with people on your server, from friends list, from an LS, or from a FC? queue with atleast one of the healer or tanks spots filled and time drops significantly. And not only is it faster, you can repeat the experience for other dung if they are actually good and have higher success rates in the runs than just using the DF.

If it's AK or any Hard Mode Primal, they'll jump at the opportunity. Because those are relevant to them. But otherwise?

You need to have someone who A. is in one of those classes, B. is online, and C. actually wants to do it with you. Which, given that dungeons give really underwhelming experience and some pretty terrible loot drops if you're 5+ levels over the dungeon itself... you're basically asking them to give up their time for you. Some will. Some won't.

Sometimes I've been lucky enough to get them. Other days my entire FC is too busy doing AK runs to lend a hand, and because I'm only able to play a couple days a week I've been left completely in the dust in progression.

The point is, I can have an FC that has thirty people online, ask "hey anyone want to queue for Stone Vigil", and get no responses. "Just queue up with someone in advance" is not always an applicable solution.

[Blissa]

I am a tank and I had to wait 20 minutes today to get a group for the dungeon, I do NOT like the fact that you can not skip the dungeon to advance the story. Its the most stupidest thing I have ever seen in a MMO. Once the servers are top heavy new players are going to be totally screwed over with super long wait times!

[Grimsworth]

Hai, I'm a tank (at 50 as you can see) and i have to wait for 15-30 minutes for queues at primetime (longer on the weekends when I have more copious time to play,) with or without a full party ready to go. While this may or may not be a problem for everyone, it is completely ridiculous to have this reserved (aka limited amount of instances) instance problem.

This shit is pure bush league from one of the biggest game developers out there. The last patch was supposed to alleviate some of these issues, but I haven't seen any difference whatsoever. Considering Squenix has produced FF11, FF14v1 and FF14v2, you would expect them to get it right by now, or at least take a queue (get it, queue) from the dominant MMO and just fix their pure programming fubars by month one and then start working on game balancing.

Bottom line is the instance reservation system is garbage and should go. Nothing can really be done about tanks and healers queueing more aside from a prize bag like WoW has.

[Nemukins]

The argument of "don't like it, roll a tank/healer" doesn't work when you are leveling your alt jobs. Also; I'm in a FC of over 400 people. It's STILL not always possible to get a group.

I don't mind waiting, but when I literally wait for close to an hour just to try and advance the story, it gets tiresome.

[DuhblinnZA]

The original Guild Wars had a similar concept where the main Missions had to be done with minimum 4 players, so this isn't exactly a new problem. Yes, it's very annoying, the reality is just that as we get less people playing the low level dungeons and with more DPS classes/jobs than Tank and Healer options, it's going to be a problem. GW tried to solve it with hireable AI henchman, and later the addition of AI controlled heroes (basically customisable henchman). Not a perfect solution, but it did help.

Also, just joining a LS of FC won't always solve the problems, you need to find like minded players. I'm currently levelling my Marauder so I can try tanking dungeons, but with my latency (connecting to EU servers from ZA is 180ms minimum, 250-250ms avg) it's a challenge, and I've found many players that don't exactly fall into the "great community" description.

[Lilysparkle]

If it makes you feel any better OP, I'm a healer and from lvl 30 up, it's been taking me 20, usually 30+ mins to get into a dungeon from the queue. ;x You may not believe that, but it's the truth. Oh and, bear in mind that you will only have to do it once for the story per character I guess.