You cannot participate in a quest battle while using the Duty Finder.

Er... so what else am I supposed to do for an hour?

I love this game, but sometimes it makes me want to punch infants.

Because Class/Job/Story battles are instanced, just like DF is reserving an instance.

Why they suggest due to their design. Crafting, gathering, and FATES.... Things some ppl have zero interest in.

You're right. You can't participate in a Duty (story instance) while queue'd for the Duty Finder (dungeons you want to run). It actually makes sense. You can kill all the mobs, do FATEs or anything you want solo.. craft or gather.. fish... but if you join a group or go into a Duty then you get kicked from the Duty Finder.

You also cannot have your chocobo out fighting when in DF. So no leveling that while you wait either.

I can understand the technical reason for why it works this way, but yeah, I'd like to see this changed. Being able to do story or class quests while queued for a dungeon would be really helpful.

I believe I understand the technical limitation behind this, but maybe we could temporarily drop out of the duty finder queue while in the quest instance, and pop back in (without losing priority, just save our spot but make it inactive) after we're out of the instance. That seems to me like an acceptable compromise.

If you're in an instanced battle for a story or class quest when your duty finder pops, are you really going to want to stop the instanced battle?

I wouldn't.

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Originally Posted by Rakhar

Er... so what else am I supposed to do for an hour?

I love this game, but sometimes it makes me want to punch infants.

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Quest battles are instanced; thus you can't enter another instance while waiting for an instance, because it can't pull you out of that instance when your duty comes up.

I don't see why it shouldn't just give you quest failure and put you back where you started if you verify when the Duty Finder comes up. With queue times for DPS being so high, dropping queue means a lot of lost time. More than restarting my job quest. And before the "Play a healer or tank" comes up, my Marauder is actually higher than my Lancer at the moment. I'd rather spend as much time as possible in dungeons instead of chasing FATEs to level it though.

Regardless of the why, it's incredibly frustrating.