What's the fastest way to get 12,000 Wolf Marks?

Just play solo all the time and dont care about people raging against you... They will for sure... hahaha

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Originally Posted by Eorzean_username

Feast queue is promising average wait times of 5 minutes (4v4 Solo) and 10 minutes (8v8), but I'm reluctant to go into that because I don't want to ruin people's ratings or play experience.

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In 8v8 if there is a rating it doesn't matter (I kinda forgot if there actually is one). The only thing you get from winning as far as I'm aware is achievements (if you are going after the airship mount or something). Honestly, 8v8 is probably your best option in 3.2.

Anyway after you get some experience in 8vs8 or Seal rock, dont' be too scary to join a 4vs4.
Sometimes it is a salt mine, but go on and try to do you best even because you wont' be paired always with the same guys and the matchmaking will try to make "balanced" party taking in consideration your tier.

This is actually really fun! I'm terrible and need far more practice, but it's fun! I wish it had been available sooner than L60, I feel like I was missing out the whole time I was leveling.

Does Frontline Roulette never ever pop, though? I've managed to get pops now for 8v8 Feast and Seal Rock many times (still haven't gotten the nerve to go 4v4 yet) but Frontline Roulette seems to be a dark abyss of wasted time.

EXCITING UPDATE
My Frontline Roulette popped! Exactly the very second the timer ticked over from yesterday's to today's reset. Maybe that's the secret, queue when the 24 players on all of Aether that actually use Frontline Roulette all the press the button simultaneously. ^^

I did 8 on 8 then tried 4v4 and I wasn't that good got yelled at called bad things that I don't want to say, and I stopped. About a week later I said hey I'm not going to let them push me out, so I did it again and I'm pushing for silver now.

And... done. I got my 12k Marks, and now I have my Sword and Shield — not the Axe I wanted originally, because this experience made me appreciate PLD in ways I've never understood the job before.

Skippable sentimental essay:

Ironically, though, I didn't even notice I reached (and went past) 12k Marks — I was having too much fun. And I'm actually kind of sad that I got my weapon, since it means I have to stop PvP'ing and go back to leveling, questing, and stories. Not that I don't love that stuff, but... PvP is so much better than I expected.

I started out terrified of PvP and dreading this Mark grind, but I needed my i205 weapon and this was my only option. PvP is still scary sometimes (like Adder / Maelstrom swarms full of Battle High icons heading straight for the node I'm supposed to single-defend), but this is honestly some of the most fun I have yet had in Eorzea.

The community has helped a lot — it's nothing like other worlds or games I've tried PvP'ing in, where I usually receive nothing but abuse and sarcasm while trying to learn. Here, I can tell players are frustrated to have a newbie weighing them down, but I've also received mostly patience, tips, and support.

I've gone from not even knowing Frontlines existed last week, to Frontline Roulette being the part I look forward to most every log-in. I need to take care of other business first, but I really want to get into this side of Eorzea a lot more seriously once I'm properly prepared for it.

As for the gritty work of actually collecting Marks:

Thank you Eul for making me aware that Frontlines / Seal Rock exist and encouraging it as an option. This is my favorite PvP mode, and where I got most of my Wolf Marks from.

Once I learned to be patient and wait out dry spells in the queue population, I started getting pops ~20-30m wait on average. Not nearly as quick as 4v4 Solo, but also without the guilt of jeopardizing others' hard-fought ratings.

And, hey, thinking positive: I finished lots of backlogged assignments / studying, made some Gil, and gained a lot of Crafter levels while waiting for those pops. ^^

So, thank you — To everyone who offered advice and ideas in this thread, to everyone that encouraged me to not worry about it and just jump in and start playing, and to all the players in-game who have tolerated and instructed me as I've started to figure out how to do this.