So yeah, 25 minutes in the queue for Ifrit...

...and it's not hard to see how this is going to be a game breaker.

25 minutes trapped in a location where there is nothing to do and I am the only person in my party.

And this is not that far out from release. In six months, a years' time this is going to be a near impossibility for new players/characters.

Making a mandatory dungeon for the story quest is an insane idea, especially one where you are stuck in an area with nothing else to do.

Square, fix up.

You can leave if you talk to the guard near the pond, he'll let u exit and add it to your duty finder list.

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Originally Posted by Seriat

You can leave if you talk to the guard near the pond, he'll let u exit and add it to your duty finder list.

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Thank you.

Maybe Square needs to put a great big sign over his head as not many people will think to randomly talk to the random dude just in case, or post on the forums and find a helpful answer.

There will be plenty of people /ragequitting the game I would think.

It's incredibly stupid.

Also, right now it may start getting harder to use Duty Finder for lower end dungeons but once patch 2.1 is released, they will be adding a random matching system where if someone uses this they will be randomly matched with people who are looking for dungeons like your Ifrit battle for example, it gives them a bonus upon completion so it benefits everyone. At least that's the plan.

Patch 2.1 is expeded to be released within this year... that's all we know at this time.

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Also, right now it may start getting harder to use Duty Finder for lower end dungeons but once patch 2.1 is released, they will be adding a random matching system where if someone uses this they will be randomly matched with people who are looking for dungeons like your Ifrit battle for example, it gives them a bonus upon completion so it benefits everyone. At least that's the plan.

Patch 2.1 is expeded to be released within this year... that's all we know at this time.

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well, it's almost 40 minutes now and Im still the only person in my group.

Not impressed.

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Originally Posted by cegorach

well, it's almost 40 minutes now and Im still the only person in my group.

Not impressed.

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You are DPS, you shouldn't be.
It's the hardest role to queue fast.

Dunno what time zone you're in but EST is 5:50PM, PDT 2:50PM on a Thursday, you should start seeing more people logging in from 6-7pm ish, peak is around 8pm-midnight.

If you can't wait that long probably trying to shout for help or asking people in Linkshell/Free company would be much faster than waiting for the Duty Finder to find you a match.

EDIT: I just noticed you're on Tonberrry, which is JP data center so, I'm not even sure what's the NA/EU population there + not sure about oceanic player population either. Japan is 6:54AM right now also so probably going to start picking up around 8AM ish but it's still Friday so might be slower than the weekends.

I wish you luck :)

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well, it's almost 40 minutes now and Im still the only person in my group.

Not impressed.

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Get used to the long wait time. DPS have the worst wait of anyone. If you want a fast queue time play healer or tank.

I don't have an issue queueing for dungeons in general.

It's when it's a mandatory story quest to move things along that it's an issue.

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well, it's almost 40 minutes now and Im still the only person in my group.

Not impressed.

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somewhere around 6-7 am in most parts of asia right now, tonberry is a jp server, so thats probably why.

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I don't have an issue queueing for dungeons in general.

It's when it's a mandatory story quest to move things along that it's an issue.

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So you want to fight it solo? This is a MMO so when you hit lv15 you started grouping up with other players to go through dungeons.
Shouting for help wouldn't hurt you know, if you have say 1 tank or 1 healer, you may have higher chance of the queue to move faster, you being the DPS is going to take longest so you could be waiting for quite some time. Maybe there are others wanting to do this but gave up waiting + there are lots of good people out there willing to help, but if they are Lv50 players they wouldn't check off all the existing dungeons, they will probably que in for the end level contents only, but if you can shout for help and those ppl have nothing else to do, I'm sure someone can help out.

That's all the advice I can give ><

If you exit the area and go to Camp drybone, you might get help by shouting for it. The Hydra battle is in the same zone so you might even luck out and get some high level people to assist.

The other day I myself joined a random Ifrit shout because I was in the area gathering mushrooms.

FYI, you can teleport/return out of the bowl of embers.

The dps is always a higher number in mmos than tanks and healers. I think there are 20% tanks 20% healers and the rest were dps.
As a dps you're going to sit in ques forever. You as a player need to talk to people make friends, join link shells and a free company
The Duty finder is cross server also so odds are people are doing any given quest.

You can do anything that isn't instanced while waiting in the DF queue. On other words, you can:
- craft
- gather
- FATEs
- side quests
- any part of the story quests that aren't instanced
- farm mob drops like leather, eggs etc.

You can not do:
- leves
- guildhests
- any story missions that make you enter an instanced battle

The long wait for DPS is frustrating, but at no point in the game are you forced to just twiddle your thumbs while you wait. You can also shout for a pre-made (aka a Party formed manually with others on your server) while in the DF queue. The DF queue will automatically cancel if you enter a party manually.

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You can not do:
- leves

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You can actually do Leves of any type, though if you're not finished when you enter the dungeon you will fail the Leve.

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You can do anything that isn't instanced while waiting in the DF queue.

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How? Last time I tried the DF queue, I was talking to a random NPC when the notice popped up saying the group was ready. It wouldn't let me acknowledge that and port to the instance because I was busy, but nor would it let me cancel out of or even advance the NPC dialog so that I could get un-busy. After a moment it kicked me from the group because I hadn't been able to acknowledge that I was ready.

I got back in the DF queue and the next time that notice popped up I had my character window open because I was changing some gear. It again wouldn't let me join the group because it considered that as being too busy, so it kicked me out of DF a second time.

The third time I tried, I just stood there doing absolutely nothing until the notice popped up, and that's the only way I finally got in.

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If it didn't let you finish the NPC dialogue or close the interface window, then click 'Commence', it was a bug. Normally, you can close whatever you were doing and then Commence. (It may be a bit finicky on the PS3 since you can't just mouseclick whatever window you want, not sure.)

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You can actually do Leves of any type, though if you're not finished when you enter the dungeon you will fail the Leve.

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This is correct. When he says fail, he means you will have to use another allowance to retry once you leave the dungeon.

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I was talking to a random NPC when the notice popped up saying the group was ready. It wouldn't let me acknowledge that and port to the instance because I was busy, but nor would it let me cancel out of or even advance the NPC dialog so that I could get un-busy.

I got back in the DF queue and the next time that notice popped up I had my character window open because I was changing some gear. It again wouldn't let me join the group because it considered that as being too busy, so it kicked me out of DF a second time.

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I'm sorry your having such issues... If you are using the PS3, you might need to reselect your NPC Dialog/Character window with the select button, and cancel out of it.

I could understand the first part if it popped in the middle of a cutscene NPC dialog though.