What are you doing while waiting in a queue for Pledge as DD?

Bevik

Questing, skyshards, lorebooks, public dungeons, delves, dolmens? Farming XP, CP? I need an idea what to do in that 30 mins.

Sleep

i dont queue as dd

Argah

Honestly, the few times I've tried away back to the shrine thing turning myself into a tank or a healer.

phaneub17_ESO

5 Tanks, 4 Healers here. Nothing ever goes over 1-2 minutes unless it bugs out in which case I relog and requeue if it ever takes more than 5 minutes.

Argah

I think the problem with the group finder in this game is too many noobs just go dps and clog up the system not understanding dps should be reserved for people who can hit some decent numbers before wasting everyone's time.

By now they really should have a mini tutorial explaining new players would be best suited as tanks since anyone with heavy armour can tank a normal dungeon.

blabliblargh

Being queued for a long time is even be problematic as on my system it introduce a noticeable 0.5s visual lag (framerate drop) every 10s

arvilla

Farming shards, gear or mats

Argah

blabliblargh wrote: »

Being queued for a long time is even be problematic as on my system it introduce a noticeable 0.5s visual lag (framerate drop) every 10s

Same here, doing a pledge the other day and whilst in the dungeon it was still saying queued had to play for 20 frustrating minutes with this lag spikes or whatever happening constantly.

Bevik

I have a tank. Really enjoy playing it. Love dungeons but I want to level the Undaunted up on my Magsorc. Pain in the ass waiting 30 mins as a DD and don't know how to fill that precious time. Delves, public dungs have a behaviour you port back to the beginning from the group finder dungeon.

Tutorials well needed for new players. I agree with that.

Argah

Bevik wrote: »

I have a tank. Really enjoy playing it. Love dungeons but I want to level the Undaunted up on my Magsorc. Pain in the ass waiting 30 mins as a DD and don't know how to fill that precious time. Delves, public dungs have a behaviour you port back to the beginning from the group finder dungeon.

Tutorials well needed for new players. I agree with that.

Throw on some heavy and a frost staff you will tank normal dungeons no problem.

phaneub17_ESO

Bevik wrote: »

I have a tank. Really enjoy playing it. Love dungeons but I want to level the Undaunted up on my Magsorc. Pain in the ass waiting 30 mins as a DD and don't know how to fill that precious time. Delves, public dungs have a behaviour you port back to the beginning from the group finder dungeon.

Tutorials well needed for new players. I agree with that.

Well its a Magsorc, if its just normal dungeons queue as a Healer. You really don't need that much, just have the Twilight on both bars and use a Resto Staff on the backbar with Mutagen and Combat Prayer to spam every once in a while. You can still use your main bar and Overload bar packed with attack spells when you're not healing, when it gets tough spam the Twilight if you're not on your back bar.

Keep_Door

I dont always wue for pledges, but when i do i farm mats while i wait.

Zordrage

Argah wrote: »

since anyone with heavy armour can tank a normal dungeon.

oh man you dont even know half of it XDDDDDDD

i saw tanks dies to pack of trash mobs... and i saw Lightarmored DPsers tanking bosses.....

also dont dare to play as a tank until you not unlocked your AOE ability......

Argah

Zoliru wrote: »

Argah wrote: »

since anyone with heavy armour can tank a normal dungeon.

oh man you dont even know half of it XDDDDDDD

i saw tanks dies to pack of trash mobs... and i saw Lightarmored DPsers tanking bosses.....

also dont dare to play as a tank until you not unlocked your AOE ability......

Haha done countless dungeons as tank as soon as able to get in, you are scaled to 160cp so you are 160cp, with heavy armour and a taunt you ain't dying.

Argah

Got a level 11 Khajit if your adamant it's difficult might just go in with with some heavy a shield record it and show how easy it is.

IcyDeadPeople

learning how to be DK healer instead

Rungar

your supposed to be thinking about why your queuing up for that vet dungeon with 162 cp, healer class dps and how your gonna *** everyone else off because you cant do HM yet.

sorry I couldn't resist.

k9mouse

Do battle grounds? The matches last for 15 minutes tops -- a lot of them go faster than that.

Vizikul

Bevik wrote: »

I have a tank. Really enjoy playing it. Love dungeons but I want to level the Undaunted up on my Magsorc. Pain in the ass waiting 30 mins as a DD and don't know how to fill that precious time. Delves, public dungs have a behaviour you port back to the beginning from the group finder dungeon.

Tutorials well needed for new players. I agree with that.

I often stuck for 1-2 hours in queue being a dps. Yesterday I did a sewers run on my healer, queue took 10 minutes and my group consisted of two tanks and two healers of which one of each queued as a dps...

You could fish or solo world bosses in the mean time. Last time I queued as a dps I waited for 2+ hours in which I soloed 7 world bosses, then I dropped the queue and logged out.

RANKK7

Every perfect roe I have is due to that, I don't like fishing but since I'm waiting and want something immediate to disengage...

Also farming nodes, now that I think of, the majority of my mats comes from the queued time

Argah

RANKK7 wrote: »

Every perfect roe I have is due to that, I don't like fishing but since I'm waiting and want something immediate to disengage...

Also farming nodes, now that I think of, the majority of my mats comes from the queued time

That sounds like the best thing to do, never done fishing before but if I do it'll be while queuing as a dps

Haquor

Argah wrote: »

I think the problem with the group finder in this game is too many noobs just go dps and clog up the system not understanding dps should be reserved for people who can hit some decent numbers before wasting everyone's time.

By now they really should have a mini tutorial explaining new players would be best suited as tanks since anyone with heavy armour can tank a normal dungeon.

You dont need 'decent numbers' for normal or vet pledges including hard modes.

And to answer the actual original question. All i do is things that get me a skill point that is not a quest like collect shards and do piblic dungeon events. Also dolmens for fighters guild xp. Clearly im only doing pledges to rank undaunted and at the same time ranking mages and fg, aquiring skill points and skills while i wait.

vyndral13preub18_ESO

Praying the group finder works and I don't have to do it again.

Argah

Haquor wrote: »

Argah wrote: »

I think the problem with the group finder in this game is too many noobs just go dps and clog up the system not understanding dps should be reserved for people who can hit some decent numbers before wasting everyone's time.

By now they really should have a mini tutorial explaining new players would be best suited as tanks since anyone with heavy armour can tank a normal dungeon.

You dont need 'decent numbers' for normal or vet pledges including hard modes.

And to answer the actual original question. All i do is things that get me a skill point that is not a quest like collect shards and do piblic dungeon events. Also dolmens for fighters guild xp. Clearly im only doing pledges to rank undaunted and at the same time ranking mages and fg, aquiring skill points and skills while i wait.

I've tried a vet as dps at about 190cp, waste of time I'd have had the team there all day, just left doable but too much time to complete.

Been on the other side too, 200cp healer with low dps and it just takes too long compared to having a couple of 500+ doing the damage.

Maybe I'm just a nice guy but I don't want to waste people's time, won't be switching to dps till at least 500cp myself.

GeorgeBlack

Before group finder came along guilds were more social, pugs used /zone, achievements were demanded by elitists and nobody was complaining.
Why enslave yourselves to a broken system? Join a Pve guild.

ArchMikem

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

5 Tanks, 4 Healers here. Nothing ever goes over 1-2 minutes unless it bugs out in which case I relog and requeue if it ever takes more than 5 minutes.

Yeah? That's to be expected if all you ever play are the in demand roles. My Healers get into a group within 10 seconds most times.

Whenever I take my DDs into a Pledge I do it during peak hours, and in that case it takes anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes. Honestly I think the wait time has reduced slightly overtime, I remember it was damn near impossible a long while ago which is what caused me to just switch to Healing cause those always get groups.

Bevik

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Bevik wrote: »

I have a tank. Really enjoy playing it. Love dungeons but I want to level the Undaunted up on my Magsorc. Pain in the ass waiting 30 mins as a DD and don't know how to fill that precious time. Delves, public dungs have a behaviour you port back to the beginning from the group finder dungeon.

Tutorials well needed for new players. I agree with that.

Well its a Magsorc, if its just normal dungeons queue as a Healer. You really don't need that much, just have the Twilight on both bars and use a Resto Staff on the backbar with Mutagen and Combat Prayer to spam every once in a while. You can still use your main bar and Overload bar packed with attack spells when you're not healing, when it gets tough spam the Twilight if you're not on your back bar.

This. Damn saved my life. I was about to lose my faith in Undaunted 9 but sorc as a healer is not as bad as I thought. Twilight is doing an insane healing. Thanks.

HatchetHaro

I queue as a tank and just slot a taunt and extra heals if the dungeon is easy, or switch to full tank gear if the dungeon requires a full tank and simply deal with the potentially low group dps. Screw the queueing times.

It's all about speed and efficiency. I want to get through dungeons as quickly and painlessly as possible, but I also don't want to deal with impossible queues. If the dungeon turns out to actually require a full tank, I'll just suck it up and tank.

phileunderx2

Don't que as a dd. Rarely que as a healer anymore as that que almost never pops. So I just solo with my pet pug.

Argah

HatchetHaro wrote: »

I queue as a tank and just slot a taunt and extra heals if the dungeon is easy, or switch to full tank gear if the dungeon requires a full tank and simply deal with the potentially low group dps. Screw the queueing times.

It's all about speed and efficiency. I want to get through dungeons as quickly and painlessly as possible, but I also don't want to deal with impossible queues. If the dungeon turns out to actually require a full tank, I'll just suck it up and tank.

Yeah this although if I queue as tank I do have full heavy with a taunt, usually the undaunted one so I'm not using sword n shield, honestly have no idea how difficult the dudes that think you need to be 100% dedicated to a role in a normal dungeon find things.

phileunderx2

Don't que as a dd. Rarely que as a healer anymore as that que almost never pops. So I just solo with my pet pug.