Duty Finder fails

Duty Finder fails imo on part of players partying for FATEs. It seems alot of people have rushed to cap using FATEs. Leaving other players like me sitting for hours if not days using DF to try and get dungeons done for main storyline. You can even shout while using DF and you won't get any help. FATEs should have had some limit on them ie: how many times a day you can do each one. Thus zones are becoming dead when it concerns dungeons. Quite frustrating.

Are FATEs going to be that one thing that everyone tries to blame for their problems? Welcome to being a damage dealing class in an MMO. We're a dime a dozen so duty finder waits are going to be long and it can be difficult to get into parties because there's so much competition. FATEs have little, if anything, to do with your plight.

If anything it's because low level dungeons aren't really worth doing more than the one time the story requires. Gear is too quickly replaced on the way to 50 for most people to bother repeating something unless there's an item they really want for whatever reason.

Well it is the fault of FATEs. They give such an insane amount of exp compared to dungeons, and that is why nobody is doing dungeons at all. If dungeons gave more exp than FATEs people would be doing them. Dungeon queues would be tolerable and FATEs might actually be enjoyable for solo players instead of just an insane amount of people beating it in under 2 minutes.

Fates are not the issue, the issue is the ratio of dps classes to tank/ healing classes. If you queue with someone who is a tank or healer I guarantee you it will pop in less than 15 seconds.

The only thing you can blame fates for is when you get a level 50 in level 28 gear in your dungeon run because they never ran dungeons to get decent gear upgrades and are now trying to skip straight to end game gear.

Except you guys seem to forget that you automatically get full AF gear through your job quests, and you get weapons through the story or just random sidequest, so doing dungeons is completely pointless and only wastes time.

Of course FATEs are to blame for the lack of people in the DF, I don't understand how you people can even come to another conclusion. Nobody actually farms dungeons because it's 100% useless, so how many do you think are queuing for each dungeon at any given time? Almost nobody unless they need to do a quest.

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Originally Posted by Kashou

Well it is the fault of FATEs. They give such an insane amount of exp compared to dungeons, and that is why nobody is doing dungeons at all. If dungeons gave more exp than FATEs people would be doing them. Dungeon queues would be tolerable and FATEs might actually be enjoyable for solo players instead of just an insane amount of people beating it in under 2 minutes.

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COmpletely agree.

Also, grinding fates is extremely boring, but it's our only option to level a second job. No quests, too few leves (and you gotta save them for crafting), dungeon exp sucks...
Give us alternatives.

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Originally Posted by Kashou

Except you guys seem to forget that you automatically get full AF gear through your job quests, and you get weapons through the story or just random sidequest, so doing dungeons is completely pointless and only wastes time.

Of course FATEs are to blame for the lack of people in the DF, I don't understand how you people can even come to another conclusion. Nobody actually farms dungeons because it's 100% useless, so how many do you think are queuing for each dungeon at any given time? Almost nobody unless they need to do a quest.

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I do nothing but dungeons on my conj. It's not useless if you enjoy doing it.

No point in blaming FATEs. FATEs are a great alternative to dungeons. If you are a DPS, that's the only thing you have to blame, if you want instant Qs...roll tank or heals.

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Originally Posted by SteelyHermit

Fates are not the issue, the issue is the ratio of dps classes to tank/ healing classes. If you queue with someone who is a tank or healer I guarantee you it will pop in less than 15 seconds.

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I have been queued with a full group and it's been over 15 minutes... something is going on >.>