Fix the class matchmaking

[BlossomRose]

Seriously, five Ifrit groups in a row go like this:

Dragoon x3 Bard
Bard x2 Dragoon x2
Bard x3 Dragoon
Monk Dragoon Bard x2
Bard x4 (YES THIS FREAKING HAPPENED X_O)

I am 100% OK with the idea that Ifrit is doable using the melee DPS limit break, or if in general the group's DPS is high. UNFORTUNATELY your odds of this being the case in a Duty Finder group are kind of REALLY LOW.

One. Freaking. Hour. I wasted one hour trying to get the VERY LAST TOME I needed to buy a new piece of gear. And I STILL didn't get it because the groups can't DPS the nails properly even when it's explained.

I started the night feeling like "just one tome to go! I'll pug Ifrit real fast, get my tome, help some people out by tanking it for them!". Now I feel like "I am never using the Duty Finder again these people are all idiots". Because yes, in the end, what I should have done is, I should have asked one of my Linkshells "hey guys I need one tome, can you come kill Ifrit or Garuda with me real fast?" But no, instead I had to think I could just drop into the Duty Finder, try to help people and... oh, well, that sure went somewhere. Now I don't want to ever again.

Working as intended? I sincerely doubt it. You want tanks and healers to use the Duty Finder and not make DPS have to wait so long in the queue? Then PLEASE FIX IT so that these frustrating, outside of anyone's control but yours situation stop happening. The current state of the Duty Finder in regards to the endgame seriously makes me want to not ever use it, and too bad for people who need a tank to avoid long queues. And just to clarify, my issues are NOT just with the bad matchmaking which screws groups over on Ifrit. I'm talking about:

- Leechers in CM/Praetorium (NOT cutscene watchers, leechers, people who go AFK and never come back).
- People who are rude or EXTREMELY underperforming (lack of votekick).
- Poor rewards compared to the extra effort of dealing with ungeared/unskilled players (VS making a premade).
- People who are undergeared (mostly relevant for Hard Titan, but I've seen people in Hard Ifrit and Hard Garuda who literally show up wearing level 30-40 rags because they leveled up using FATEs, not dungeons, and couldn't be bothered to buy equipment).

[gigi_frana]

maybe you should find a better way to get gear than Ifrit(I hear that`s not a "dungeon" per se)? I hear there are some alternatives.

[BlossomRose]

maybe you should find a better way to get gear than Ifrit(I hear that`s not a "dungeon" per se)? I hear there are some alternatives.

I don't need gear from Ifrit. I needed ONE Myth tomestone to buy another piece of gear and figured Ifrit would be better than trying to do another AK. Sadly doing AK would probably have been less painful.

[Ruprect]

You think that is bad, I had an FC mate that was stuck in SM Garuda yesterday for an hour. This is what you get when you DF things, people that cannot handle simple mechanics like HIDING BEHIND A ROCK or killing adds, not sure why he did not ask us earlier but we grabbed alts that need it and grouped up with him and one shot it. So they get to Ifrit HM which is easily doable without a LB and everyone in vendor gear and fail over and over again to very very simple mechanics and get carried through to Garuda/titan HM with level 30-40 gear and think they will get carried again in Titan. LOL.

I used to DF stuff to try and help people, then a started getting skill>gear when I point out that they have 2800 HP on HM Titan. I just don't DF anymore. Some people are so bad they cannot be helped.

[Cingen]

I honestly find it easy to do with no BLM or SMN.. I as the Dragoon use 2 LBs on the nails and I haven't whiped once on the nail phase, it really is piss easy tbh.

[Warlyx]

lol i have seen brd x3 , but never brd x4 ...lol ppl jumping on the bandwagon and wanting to gear the new fresh 50 bard

[BlossomRose]

I honestly find it easy to do with no BLM or SMN.. I as the Dragoon use 2 LBs on the nails and I haven't whiped once on the nail phase, it really is piss easy tbh.

Then I applaud you for being good at your job.

These other Dragoons I partied with were not.

[nekomtl]

lol i have seen brd x3 , but never brd x4 ...lol ppl jumping on the bandwagon and wanting to gear the new fresh 50 bard

I have been in party with 4 BRD. This is because Ifirit bow drop rate is really low. I have to try it 50 times to get a bow.

[KogaDrake]

I have been in party with 4 BRD. This is because Ifirit bow drop rate is really low. I have to try it 50 times to get a bow.

drop rate is no lower than any of the other weapons, they are all 1/9 chance to drop. I have seen ifrits bow more than any of the others, its all RNG, your personal 50 tries while is unlikely will happen to many people as hundreds of thousands of people are doing this, some will find this horrible luck (your case is like 1 of every 1000 will go 50 without finding your weapon)

[delaSO]

Have to love it. Had a tank yesterday in a group that was asking the group which spells to use to taunt the ads(he was only tanking 1 of 3 mobs on trash pulls). It works both ways, frustrating none the less.