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yakmuck
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I've never posted here before but it seems like the wait times have suddenly jumped since the last mod. Ravenloft has been NA for weeks now and that ain't the only one...has the general population gone down or what?
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And therein lies also the answer to why you experience so long wait times.
I have an healer and a tank for RQ running, and I use whichever of those two that have the role bonus. So I always get role bonus on top too.
Which means that everything is technically working fine; the problem is as usual the availability of healers and tanks.
So the short term answer for you is to play heal/tank, the longer term answer is for Cryptic to make heal/tank more attractive to play beyond the role bonus.
When that is said: The heal/tank shortage problem seems to be common to most mmorpg's. It probably comes from several issues:
* Heal/tank is what makes a group work, so there is a lot of responsibility in those positions. An underperforming dps will be compensated by the other dpsers, underperforming heal/tank is immediately very noticeable.
* Heal/tank are the worker bees that get the job done and do not compete for the shiny positions on the Paingiver charts
* There is some psychology here in that people play games to kill baddies.. and it is the dps that kills the baddies
* And in particular for tanks, there is a much higher threshold to climb to do a good job. Tanks need to know the encounters well to not mess up, dps can to a much greater degree learn as they go.
Tank has limited - time gated - resources to gain aggro. If DPS runs ahead... just die.
Healer - aside from the limited resources - has already enough work watching the health bars. If DPS decides to get badly hurt too far off the main group... just die.
As long as DPS chars don't know and respect tank and healer position, tank and healer roles will not become more attractive... there will not be enough tanks and healers... and DPS will have trouble to find the support classes within a reasonable amount of time.
Respect the support classes and they will become more common. It is the behaviour of DPS characters that makes tanking and healing rather annoying experience.
> I've never posted here before but it seems like the wait times have suddenly jumped since the last mod. Ravenloft has been NA for weeks now and that ain't the only one...has the general population gone down or what?
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Are you queuing directly for CR? If you are a DPS, that is going to have a lot longer wait time than if you were doing Random Queue You are starting a new instance which needs tank and heals, thus going straight to the back of the line.
Between searching in your guild/alliance as well as protectors enclave you should have no problem putting a group together in 5-10 minutes, unless you play during some really quiet hours.
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You think wait times for Epics are a bit extended.. try getting into a Tales grp if your not a tank or Healer so the there is such a deficient LFG system in NW. Of course you can always create your own grp for stuff.. except that is just as painful imo