We need a duty finder system for ffXI.

[sc4500]

It will help move things along and just move the game along and more. Since there will be people paying for both versions maybe. Unless there friends passed out or went to bed or the wife went to work.

Be strict on it, unlike ff14 versions. How many more YEARS do WE have To SHOUT in the TOWN, or SEND a BLIND , hmm TELL.

Or now days program are cellphones on the shouts and see if see one and send the tell, tell them be there in 35 min. Not many are doing it that way right now since the servers are getting smaller.

[OmnysValefor]

I agree, but you might retype your post, you're kind of all over the map and it might not translate well.

Yes, I would love to be able to seek for specific assaults, or specific skirmishes or such, or etc.

Particularly important is the ability to seek while in a group. I might be farming dynamis with a friend, but I'd still want to know if someone was interested inviting me to a task we both wanted to complete.

[svengalis]

would be awesome for things like walk of echoes, voidwatch, nyzul isle and other group content.

[Firebert_Lakshmi]

Duty Finder is broken right now, so no we don't.

[geekgirl101]

Hmm, yes it sounds like it could work well to arrange some kind of search feature for specific events instead of wasting hours in Jeuno shouting. The seacom is an ancient system that sort of worked when people needed to make a 5 person party for leveling up. It's lost its use and needs replacing with something more dynamic (if the PS2 can handle it.)

[Edyth]

Nobody uses duty finder in XIV unless they're a tank or healer.

[Hayward]

Nobody uses duty finder in XIV unless they're a tank or healer.

Not even close to true. I've used Duty Finder on Arcanist for every dungeon fight so far. The only dungeon fight that went nowhere was in a pickup group that had no tank and tried to use me as a healer (which, by the way, will not work any more than it did in XI).

A Duty Finder system would work wonders in something like Delve, Skirmish, Walk of Echoes, or any other event. At least it would expose lazy-minded folks constantly shouting for Delve weapons only.

[Afania]

Not even close to true. I've used Duty Finder on Arcanist for every dungeon fight so far. The only dungeon fight that went nowhere was in a pickup group that had no tank and tried to use me as a healer (which, by the way, will not work any more than it did in XI).

A Duty Finder system would work wonders in something like Delve, Skirmish, Walk of Echoes, or any other event. At least it would expose lazy-minded folks constantly shouting for Delve weapons only.

Nah, even with a duty finder, those wanted gear/skill requirement would still /shout or drag LS/friend. Some ppl only do higher lv dungeons in XIV with friends/LS due to too many landmines you get with Duty Finder.

[scaevola]

Nobody uses duty finder in XIV unless they're a tank or healer.

That will change. Looking for Group/Raid was a huge benefit to WoW that breathed a ton of life into the game. Even the DD classes that have to wait longer to get in at least have a rough idea of how long they'll have to wait.

[Duelle]

Create a Duty Finder where ppl get bonuses for doing it instead of creating parties manually. That will increase the number of ppl being accepted in events even though they dont have godly gear.

But as long as the performance discrepancies are notable, all you'll get is the following:

- Standard FFXI player queues for duty finder for 6-man Nyzul Isle
- Group gets filled up with a WHM, DRK, NIN, BRD
- Final member turns out to be a PUP
- Members start going "wtf a pup go queue up on a real job"
- a) If vote kick exists in DF: Members vote the PUP off the party because they'd rather not do the event than take a loljob along
- b) If vote kick does not exist in DF: Members start to leave if the PUP refuses to leave the party
- The purpose of Duty Finder is thus defeated

Looking for Group/Raid was a huge benefit to WoW that breathed a ton of life into the game. Even the DD classes that have to wait longer to get in at least have a rough idea of how long they'll have to wait.

Building on my above point, Blizzard didn't implement group finder until after most of the performance discrepancies were dealt with, including major tank adjustments (because they didn't want a repeat of stuff like "only prot paladins can tank Heroic Shattered Halls" and "only prot warriors can tank Illidan") and WotLK's Great Hybrid Revamp.