Mind-numbing long wait times...

Glad to hear you were able to get it done finally.

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Originally Posted by Darkside345

Thank you for the suggestion. But I have an Xbox, so I don't have access to that data center. I am able to go across worlds and tried it but this didn't make any difference in the wait time. Although I did find a few things I was looking for on the Market Boards that were not available on my home world. So that's something.

Queues for Duty Finder draw from all worlds on the same data center, which is why you didn't see any difference in the queue times using World Visit on Dynamis.

Being an Xbox player shouldn't have any affect on what data centers you can travel to. All FFXIV data centers and worlds are cross-platform, and I can't remember any announcement about Xbox player characters being restricted to their home data centers.

But there is something that must done before your characters can visit a different data center for the first time. You need to go to the other data center via the title screen menu first. That adds some information to your personal game files so the game knows that the data center is a valid destination for your characters. (Have no idea why SE set it up that way but it's something that has to be done)

From the title screen, select Data Center instead of Start. Select the data center you want to visit then click Proceed. You should end up on the character selection for a random world in that data center.

Now go back to the title screen menu and select Data Center again. This time, select your home data center where your character is. You should now be able to use the submenu options for your character to go to the data center you "visited".

I would suggest repeating this for each of the different data centers in the game just so it doesn't get in your way if you want to visit them at some point in the future. Also do it when any new data centers are first opened (such as Shadow upcoming for EU). While we're usually limited to only data centers in our character's home region, SE is temporarily allowing cross region travel to Materia (Oceania) so it's possible that cross region travel to all regions may be getting enabled at some point during Dawntrail.