When I queue up as DPS I usually have an average wait time of 20-26 mins these days...
and its not that bad.
When I queue up as DPS I usually have an average wait time of 20-26 mins these days...
and its not that bad.
I think the queue times sometimes is a good thing, it makes me able to do the dailys between the HC pops.
The main reason as to why I don't tank in dungeons on my tanking classes is aggro, more or less, it sucks trying to tank when 3 DPS are targetting one each, and sure, I'm not the best tank, a good tank might be able to handle that, but to me I don't wanna try, I'd rather be one of the DPS, although I follow marks and such as good as I can...
has any other dps noticed that since the patch queue times have gone from 45+mins to 20mins? maybe more people are starting to tank!
Part of the problem is that for a 25m raid you need 1-3 tanks for 25 people depending on the boss. for 10m you need 1-2 tanks, but for 5m you need 1. Once people start pushing the higher level raiding you often have 5-8 dps for every tank for raid instances, but need 1 tank for every 3 dps in 5mans. If the ratio stayed similar for 5mans up to 25mans it would help the issue somewhat.
The easiest solution to implement is to stop being a jerk to tanks and healers, they might actually bother to do heroics because they're amusing then rather than sticking to guildies only and daily only
You'd succeed in achieving nothing as far as the wait times are concerned.
Lets say each faction has:
100 tanks
200 healers
1100 DPS
That would require 366.6 separate queues to fill all the DPSers. However, there is only enough tanks for 1/3rd the total, and enough healers for 2/3rd. Only 100 groups could be filled at a time.
Now, if we double it for merging factions we have:
200 tanks
400 healers
2200 DPSers
Now it requires 733.3 groups to fill all the DPSers, yet still only enough tanks for less than 1/3rd of the total.
Joining the factions will double the tanks, and double the healers. Yay. But it also doubles the DPS, which means you've done absolution nothing for queue times.
So... the 15% LotD buff didn't help queue times?
Imo, Blizz made some serious mistakes with the tanking classes and the tools they have and as such a lot of tanks are not tanking heroics but running them as dps.
As an example , how many druid tanks do you see in heroics compared to wotlk ? Same goes for the amount of tanking dk's from what i've seen.
As a feral tank tanking randoms is a pretty stressfull 'job' now and i don't play this game for stress or to have it feel like a job so i'm queue-ing as kitty, for me all the fun tanking used to be is gone and unless that changes there will remain a lack of tanks. Also the impatients and rudeness displayed by many player towards healers and tanks is also a big factor, we don't play this game to be abused and that is happening a lot.
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Stolen ... from elyssia .... mad elyssia?
Or instead of just standing still and wait for que you can always level some proffession like archeology or just try to get some epppiiiccs, thats atleast better than stnading still doing nothing. Its EVEN more fun
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This is true but the part i found most fun is thaat i actualy only failed my Hcs with the guild and i always succeed when i go without them. and we are liketop 3 raid guild on the server :S
This.
Roll a tank or a healer, preferably a tank. Rather than expecting someone else to do the job you dotn want to do.
Also< I refuse to tank pugs, people are arses. I just tank guild groups. Maybe if people were nicer in general, but for now I'm not inclined to sign up to get abuse from dps who are clueless.
There is no way to fix this problem. Good tanks and healers get geared by their guild faster than any other role because tanks and tank healers are the backbone of a raid. I stopped doing my random heroics one month after launch because I'm already 359 geared.
At this point the only reason for me to save VP is to sell boots, but prospecting+cutting gems is a far less stressful and more profitable way for me to make gold than dealing with 4 retards from another realm for an hour.
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