Any advice?

So I'm relatively new to mmos...played some WoW....but never got super hardcore into it. I'm loving this game so far. However, I feel like I've hit a wall. I'm a level 52 Pali on Bahamut server and trying to get to Ishgard, but I guess I have to complete the story missions first. I've been trying to use the duty finder to do the first of the two 8 man raids to go kill the black wolf Gaius and his minions and yet it's been 3 nights in a row I've been waiting for an hour and a half and no groups have formed. Am I totally screwed, like I'm too late buying the game and now no one really does that content anymore? I have work and a family so I can't wait around for 3 or 4 hours everyday.

Unfortunately not many people queue up for those dungeons. Worse yet, the only roulette they're a part of is the Main Scenario roulette, which gives poetics tomestones that most people don't really need anymore.

Your best bet would be to put up a party finder asking if anyone wants the first-timer bonus, and asking your FC if you have one. You'll find that, while people may not queue up for those dungeons to farm anymore, there are folks out there who are willing to lend a hand, especially with something easy like those.

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Originally Posted by Urthdigger

Unfortunately not many people queue up for those dungeons. Worse yet, the only roulette they're a part of is the Main Scenario roulette, which gives poetics tomestones that most people don't really need anymore.

Your best bet would be to put up a party finder asking if anyone wants the first-timer bonus, and asking your FC if you have one. You'll find that, while people may not queue up for those dungeons to farm anymore, there are folks out there who are willing to lend a hand, especially with something easy like those.

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Thanks for the response. I was curious, how difficult are those 2 raids? I have item level 93 and I don't know if that's good or bad. The vid I watched didn't look TOO rough but it was obvious everyone in the vid had run it a million times. Just wasn't sure from a noob off tank perspective if I could cause wipe if I screwed up.

There is pretty much nothing you could do there to screw it up. Most groups don't even wait for people to get out of cutscenes in those dungeons. I would help you run it, but i am on a different server ;/ Also, if you have a few max level friends, they could probably run you through those unsynced in under an hour. Good luck!!

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Originally Posted by Alex_W

There is pretty much nothing you could do there to screw it up. Most groups don't even wait for people to get out of cutscenes in those dungeons. I would help you run it, but i am on a different server ;/ Also, if you have a few max level friends, they could probably run you through those unsynced in under an hour. Good luck!!

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Lol...I have zero friends playing the game actually. I think I'm the only person on the planet who just enjoys playing mmos solo. I'm a pretty introverted quiet person generally. Just this raid thing caught me off guard. At least in WoW I didn't have to down Arthas to to play Cataclysm. Anyhow, seriously, thanks for the advice guys. Also, I've been considering switching servers. I was so eager to play that I just popped into the first server that sounded cool and didn't even think about the problem of it being a Japanese server. Any suggestions for any helpful English speaking servers?

Potentially looking for a different server?
I'm from Coeurl and if you're looking for folks to run dungeons and raids with, myself and my friends would definitely enjoy helping out. Quiet or talkative we just enjoy having people around to run things with. ^_^

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Originally Posted by Killerkub

Potentially looking for a different server?
I'm from Coeurl and if you're looking for folks to run dungeons and raids with, myself and my friends would definitely enjoy helping out. Quiet or talkative we just enjoy having people around to run things with. ^_^

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Actually sounds pretty good...the only hang up is I live in Japan so I'm not sure how many people would be playing when I'm playing, but thanks for the invite. I'll create a character on your server and see how it goes. I just like running stuff and even though I'm quiet, I always like helping and running stuff also. I'll send a pm when I'm on. Do you use that character mostly?

Yes. If I'm online then you should be able to reach me via "Lady Sumia". A couple of us have some odd schedules so hopefully there will be enough people around to be helpful! I look forward to hearing from you! :D

I can think of one other thing to try to make it work on Bahamut if you decide you dont like the idea of re-leveling a character(or paying for a server transfer). In the duty finder(if you havent done this already) make sure youve got Japanese selected as a matching language along with English and anything else youre comfortable with. On any Japan data center server that could potentially improve all your group-match times significantly.

I think I have Japanese selected also. Thanks for thinking about possible options though. After another hour and a half of using the party finder I finally got enough people to do the first raid, but no one could stick around for the second. Hopefully I can find more helpful people so I can move on to Ishgard. Is Praetorum as easy as the first, because that first raid has been the easiest dungeon I've gone through since starting FF14. I almost felt like a tank wasn't needed. Awesome there were no hiccups but kinda weird that one tank seemed like more than enough.