How long are healer queues?

thearchivist95

Do healers get into content through dungeon finder and pugs fairly quickly? I'd like to try a healer with some minor DPS capabilities but I sometimes have limited playtime and don't prefer to spend it waiting for content.

Thanks!

Horowonnoe

Less than a minute usually, when I Q on my healer.

Nightfall12

Depends on some factors are you doing vet or normal? specific dungeons or random...if specific is it the pledge of day?

I know that For me the queue for normals goes quick..i think due to the amount of DDs queing as tanks to cut the line down.
{Before ANYONE claims you dont need tanks on normal...remember that not everyone has reached CP levels and not everyone is an animation cancelling DD king. If you queue as a tank, you should be able to at least hold aggro off the others. So annoying to try and heal when the 1 guy that thinks they are super awesome queues as tank, but runs ahead and leaves a wake of angry enemies that attack the poor new guy that has never done a dungeon before.}

Vet ones seem to take longer, probably because the real tanks are fewer

Tasear

Shouldn't be more then a couple min for daily pledges and randoms.

thearchivist95

I don't plan to push past normal trials. At least not often.

Basically I plan to do normal and veteran dungeons, and normal trials. I'm interested in making a Breton warden healer (or possibly wood elf for the lore but I know their racials don't lend themselves to healing) and would like to be able to spend more time healing than waiting to heal.

Hopefully that helps, sorry I wasn't super specific before, I was rushing out the door, my bad

Nestor

thearchivist95 wrote: »

I don't plan to push past normal trials. At least not often.

Basically I plan to do normal and veteran dungeons, and normal trials. I'm interested in making a Breton warden healer (or possibly wood elf for the lore but I know their racials don't lend themselves to healing)

Last thing you need to worry about is the Meta for a Healer outside of competitive trials for scores. As long as you have a good pool of magic, some good spell power/crits and can manage your resources, you can heal anything in the game effectively.

So, roll whatever suits your fancy for a healer.

Heck, level Resto Staff on any character and you can effectively heal most content just fine, well, maybe not a pure Stamina Character. That might not work well.

thearchivist95

This is encouraging. In WoW, healer queue times can be upwards of 10 minutes at times for dungeons, and easily 30 minutes+ for raid finder. It really sucks because the fun of healing isn't accessible outside of group content, so if you have to wait forever to get into it... what's the point even?

Glad that it doesn't appear to be the case here.

SydneyGrey

usually 5 minutes for me

exiars10

It's bad as on my DD and I talk about veteran group dungeons on pledge day! I posted how I even had to wait 20+ min.

Normal one are pretty much fast, but in normal you do much more DPS than you heal anyway.

AcadianPaladin

Just yesterday I pugged with my healer. Asked for normal FGI only (the day's pledge from Maj). Queue took 5-10 min and got a nice group just inside the door. Run went well.

exiars10

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

Just yesterday I pugged with my healer. Asked for normal FGI only (the day's pledge from Maj). Queue took 5-10 min and got a nice group just inside the door. Run went well.

This is garbage waiting time as on my DD and healer, too.
When you are a tank (I have Warden tank), it's mostly instant for pledges.

NordSwordnBoard

Almost as quick as my tank, which is usually within 10 seconds. Switching between the two can avoid bad groups, the 15 minute penalty, and almost always get 4 keys and usually 6 keys between the two of them.

(PS4NA)