40 minute queue times mid day.

DigiAngel

Come on ZOS....get on the ball...trying to do a dungeon over a lunch time was a joke; had to drop out. DPS shouldn't take THIS long. No...it's not normal, usual, appropriate...just to stave that off

Ittrix

There are no tanks, is why. It's typically boring to tank a normal as is, and many groups would rather the tank actually be a DPS so they can get their transmutes faster.

It doesn't help that ZoS seemingly has no clue what tanks like.
I could point you at a bajillion sets and changes they've made that tanks do not care about, but I think it speaks wonders that for the last almost year most tanks were wearing a set intended for Stamina DPS called Roar of Alkosh, rather than a tank set. They literally could've made that same exact set as heavy armor with minor aegis and HP buffs and people would go ape over it.

Non class based magicka chain when, ZoS?

DigiAngel

The big sad

Kane_Hart

From my understanding you need to form your own groups sadly. This game is a bit harder for grouping because you are 4 man with 1 healer and tank slot used and only 2 left for DPS. That being said I hear many people do dungeons with 3 dps, but I assume that is all self made groups.

Sergykid

for the 1000th time. Queue bugs often and you have to rejoin it. If as tank or healer you don't get a group in 15 seconds, rejoin queue until you get it instalty. As a dd try for 1 minutes for random, 5 minutes for specific. If you stay in queue any longer it means you got into the "ghost" queue that works parallelly and you have to wait until other people bug out too.

Starlight_Whisper

🤣 it's been much better for me as healer now

DigiAngel

Thanks @Sergykid I did not know about the ghost queue. In the early morning I have a low level tank that gets in almost instantly...I'll try your method tonight and see if I can get in quicker. I don't mind a bit of a wait...but 40 minutes is dumb.

Starlight_Whisper

Sergykid wrote: »

for the 1000th time. Queue bugs often and you have to rejoin it. If as tank or healer you don't get a group in 15 seconds, rejoin queue until you get it instalty. As a dd try for 1 minutes for random, 5 minutes for specific. If you stay in queue any longer it means you got into the "ghost" queue that works parallelly and you have to wait until other people bug out too.

You are crazy. On pc na it's normal to wait 5 mins on healer

Marcus_Thracius

Waiting for the new servers - finger crossed for 2029

Varana

For a DD, 40 minutes on a slow day outside of prime time? That's on the long-ish side but can happen. If you queue for a specific non-pledge vet, you could wait hours, probably.

The queue bug does exist. For tanks, you can re-queue after 5 minutes at the latest. For healers, 10 minutes might be reasonable.
Unfortunately, for a DD, you can't really tell. Depending on what you queue for, I wouldn't expect to get into a dungeon below 15 minutes, esp. outside of prime time. Exceptions happen but they're that - exceptions.

stevenyaub16_ESO

Trials require 2 tanks and 8 DPS there's always gonna be twice as many by that logic alone.

Tanking is also boring as hell unless it's difficult content.

DPS suck more often than not when I queue as a tank.

These frustrations can be mitigated by some nice tank/DD hybrid builds but no one plays them.

amm7sb14_ESO

DigiAngel wrote: »

Come on ZOS....get on the ball...trying to do a dungeon over a lunch time was a joke; had to drop out. DPS shouldn't take THIS long. No...it's not normal, usual, appropriate...just to stave that off

ZOS doesn't control how many people are in the queue.

As a tank, I'd rather tank with my guild, rather than PUG's who are going to try to kick me if I don't have whatever sets they think I should wear.

Ittrix

stevenyaub16_ESO wrote: »

Trials require 2 tanks and 8 DPS there's always gonna be twice as many by that logic alone.

Tanking is also boring as hell unless it's difficult content.

DPS suck more often than not when I queue as a tank.

These frustrations can be mitigated by some nice tank/DD hybrid builds but no one plays them.

I play one! I pool HP on my nightblade and use vampire skills to make up for the crap damage stats. Not exactly biswear, but 20k single target isn't bad for a dude with 40k HP in full heavy armor with taunts and damage mitigation and all that.

Only way for me to have fun tanking a normal these days. ... Also, tired of getting into groups who watch my tank with 3k DPS pull half the damage. I know they're new and I shouldn't be mad at them, but I can only do a 2 hour fungal grotto 1 so many times before I try to compensate.

ccfeeling

Dont complain... They will nerf tanks more..

redspecter23

The queue still has quite a few bugs in addition to the shortage of tanks in general. Sometimes you will get an infinite queue. You won't even know until you drop and requeue. Sometimes it's looking for a specific role to fill. For example, I can queue with 2 friends as dps/tank/heal and get nothing. There is a 0% chance that there isn't a solo dps in the queue for a random normal, but still, the queue gets stuck. If we change our roles to tank/dps/dps, the queue pops instantly to fill that healer role. So just let it be known that there are plenty of times the queue is looking to fill a solo dps for that 3 person tank/heal/dps group and it just doesn't pop.

The ability of ZOS to find ways to make the queue not work is actually quite impressive.

etchedpixels

DigiAngel wrote: »

Come on ZOS....get on the ball...trying to do a dungeon over a lunch time was a joke; had to drop out. DPS shouldn't take THIS long. No...it's not normal, usual, appropriate...just to stave that off

Learn to tank. Tank is usually about 3 seconds.

renne

Ittrix wrote: »

There are no tanks, is why. It's typically boring to tank a normal as is, and many groups would rather the tank actually be a DPS so they can get their transmutes faster.

It doesn't help that ZoS seemingly has no clue what tanks like.
I could point you at a bajillion sets and changes they've made that tanks do not care about, but I think it speaks wonders that for the last almost year most tanks were wearing a set intended for Stamina DPS called Roar of Alkosh, rather than a tank set. They literally could've made that same exact set as heavy armor with minor aegis and HP buffs and people would go ape over it.

Non class based magicka chain when, ZoS?

If this is on PC then I imagine they're DPS queuing for the XP bonus now, more than the transmutes. 100K+ in a lump plus any bonuses is a big chunk of a new CP.

Nagastani

Ittrix wrote: »

There are no tanks, is why. It's typically boring to tank a normal as is, and many groups would rather the tank actually be a DPS so they can get their transmutes faster.

It doesn't help that ZoS seemingly has no clue what tanks like.
I could point you at a bajillion sets and changes they've made that tanks do not care about, but I think it speaks wonders that for the last almost year most tanks were wearing a set intended for Stamina DPS called Roar of Alkosh, rather than a tank set. They literally could've made that same exact set as heavy armor with minor aegis and HP buffs and people would go ape over it.

Non class based magicka chain when, ZoS?

And after all the hits to Heavy Armor and Tanks losing buffs from the patch there will be even less.

WuffyCerulei

I mean there is just substantially way more DPS than there are healers or tanks. No surprise the most popular role is going to have a long queue time.