I maintain there is not a queue time problem - or at least one that Blizzard can do anything about. There is a "dps is jealous of tank queue time" phenomenon, but I'm not convinced that's a problem.

This is a market driven issue and one that you can't control via the bribery of tanks. What's going to happen if dps queue time is 15 minutes? Tanks and healers will queue as dps and drive the dps queue time back up. What's going to happen when tanks who tank because of the goodie bag rewards get all the rewards? They're going to stop tanking unless you reward them with something new. You can't externally "fix" the situation.

I often see 8-12 minute queue time on my healer and 28-32 minute time on my dps. (Tank is always instant of course.) Hopefully, it isn't lost on anyone that this is the same 1:3 ration of healers to dps. In other words, the dps queue time will ALWAYS be roughly 3 times that of the healer queue time.

You're a dps and don't like it? You can... roll a tank or roll a healer. You're a tank/healer and want to play dps some day? Sorry, that's just the way it is - 30 minutes for a dps queue.

Mark my words, Call to Arms may change things for the very short term but long term it won't change anything in regards to dps queue times.

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