It's that particular duty. Whenever I run it solo unsynced, I always get the Reserving Server thing. And has been happening for months.
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It really likely is an RMT bot swarm thing. What they do is group up and tele-grind to get to a point where they can unsync, warp to and demolish the AK bosses to get the gear. They then dump that gear into a GC for seals and repeat until they're full on Company Seals. Once they're full, they buy as many Moonstones as they can (4k seals each) and sell them to the vendor for 1.2k a pop. Do that a couple thousand times and you start generating some serious gil. 1 full cap on seals at First Lieutenant gives 20 Moonstones which is 24k gil. Seems slow if you're having to do it manually but the way they do it they can hit some pretty serious numbers... at least that's the theory...
Well, whatever it was, they fixed it with this https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...da886fda6a332d - successfuly finished that run and advanced the quest ^^
Still having this issue I have a friend who needs it and I tried to undersize it still “Reserving server” on Spriggan...
Not only that, every now and then you stay at reserving a party for a couple of minutes and then get kicked off the DF saying there's a problem currently please wait a while before trying to join a duty.
Something definitely needs to be done about the duty servers. It feels as if it's simply not getting enough resources to run the duties everyone wants to run.