Late Night DF Replacements
This is a two part post, because a 1000 character post limit...
Sometimes, fairly late at night - between 3 AM EST till about 6 AM ET - it becomes difficult for the DF to find replacements for people who disconnect or grief a party, especially if a party loses a healer or a tank.
I had an idea about how to help out groups who have this happen during off hours, which are different from region to region. It's inspired by something that was in Guild Wars and some of the NPCs in FFXIV already.
Perhaps setting up a sort of "emergency henchmen" for the DF might be a good idea. Basically, in Guild Wars, henchmen were NPCs that could be hired to join the player when it can’t find other players to help them, or didn't feel like socializing. In the case of the DF, an NPC henchmen could end up being sent into an instance as a replacement after a specified amount of time on the duty finder had lapsed (likely 30 minutes, that seems to be like, the most anyone is willing to wait).