300 minutes and counting since reset to get into CT through duty finder

It's like they got their upgrades elsewhere in some uncapped resource race that brings out the best in people.

I actually like new CT and the gear is very decent for some of the jobs. My DRG likes determination, not skill speed (No one likes skill speed!), so most of the gear is pretty attractive. But not attractive enough apparently to get a queue for the first 5 hours of reset. That seems pretty bad since the balance was already shifted to require fewer tanks.

I'm not really enjoying the lack of interest in 24 man content that was destroyed almost entirely by hunts. Uncapped Hunts Vs Capped CT. CT lost. You can't go back in time to make hunt rewards reasonable since too many people have already benefitted from you giving away raid gear in non raids without a cap. You might think about uncapping CT and calling this patch a wash.

People should be really well geared for next patch, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Mostly just food for thought for the future.

Edit 500 minutes. still waiting. I'll be raiding in an hour. Sargatanas being NA has nothing to do with not getting a queue the entire day. I've been watching the slots fill up and then people leave because they have been waiting. It only popped for a minute around 5PM EST and then someone withdrew.

Edit 2 560 minutes. Going to raid. Hope I have better luck.

Same thing is happening to Frontlines. I love FL and CT but it sucks waiting several hours to get a queue. I'm worried it will only get worse as time goes if Hunts arent adjusted in some meaningful way. I hadnt really thought of it before even though I've seen the threads but with the gear and seals and oils etc, i'm not surprised attendance is so sparse in all other content.

I had thought "well its just something new so of course it is getting spammed." I keep forgetting the majority of players only take the path of least resistance rather then play the whole game and enjoy all it has to offer... Same thing happened with FATE's at the beginning.

Sargatanas is in NA data center... ya know, there just might be bigger things out there to do after the reset... like work and school...
Try to queue a bit later.

They should have never capped it to one item per week then. Once we get our drop we don't go back until next week.
Hunting is boring....like atma type boring.
They need to figure out how to pick the pace up or risk losing it all.

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Originally Posted by Chihaya

Sargatanas is in NA data center... ya know, there just might be bigger things out there to do after the reset... like work and school...
Try to queue a bit later.

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Duty finder is cross-server, not just NA.

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Originally Posted by Merryl

They should have never capped it to one item per week then. Once we get our drop we don't go back until next week.
Hunting is boring....like atma type boring.
They need to figure out how to pick the pace up or risk losing it all.

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CT is already dead to me. Level 100 items are useless but for vanity and re-doing the tower every time feels like a chore.

ST is great for getting gear for your other jobs that you don't have soldiery to spend on.

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Originally Posted by Alipoprocks

Duty finder is cross-server, not just NA.

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Duty finder is part of your Server group.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...66d5ddfed8ac50

- Japan data center
- Group 1
Aegis/Atomos/Carbuncle/Garuda/Gungnir/Kujata/Ramuh/Tonberry/Typhon/Unicorn

- Group 2
Alexander/Bahamut/Durandal/Fenrir/Ifrit/Ridill/Tiamat/Ultima/Valefor/Yojimbo/Zeromus

- Group 3
Anima/Chocobo/Hades/Ixion/Mandragora/Masamune/Pandaemonium/Titan/Asura/Belias

- North American/European data center
- Group 1
Adamantoise/Balmung/Cerberus/Coeurl/Faerie/Goblin/Midgardsormr/Odin/Sargatanas/Siren

- Group 2
Behemoth/Diabolos/Excalibur/Famfrit/Lamia/Leviathan/Lich/Shiva/Ultros/Brynhildr

- Group 3
Cactuar/Exodus/Gilgamesh/Hyperion/Malboro/Moogle/Phoenix/Ragnarok/Mateus/Zalera

Not All servers.

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Duty finder is cross-server, not just NA.

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Cross-Server to the server in the same datacenter.
Because all JP servers are in own JP datacenters and all EU sever are in 1 EU datacenter (chaos), are NA severs together with other NA servers in their datacenters.

Sargatanas is in the Aether datacenter together with Adamantoise, Balmung, Cactuar, Coeurl, Faerie, Gilgamesh, Goblin, Jenova, Mateus, Midgardsomr, Siren and Zalera. All are NA severs.

That sounds odd, specially for a melee, perhaps the DF internally dropped you from the queue.

Something doesn't sound right. Tonight I've got in 3 times on my bard,the longest time around 3 minutes. the 1st one was 10 seconds, I had to glance to make sure what job I was on.

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Cross-Server to the server in the same datacenter.
Because all JP servers are in own JP datacenters and all EU sever are in 1 EU datacenter (chaos), are NA severs together with other NA servers in their datacenters.

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Actually the EU servers are lumped with the NA servers because they all connect to the same physical location somewhere in Quebec(?). I'm on Ragnarok an EU server and the rest of the "Data Center" is NA. But basically, the data centers are a mixed bag of nuts. Depending on the time of day you play and your time zone it may not get any better for the player trying to get a party.

I play with people in Scotland and England, they are 8 hours ahead of me. My prime time to be able to play is like 9pm - midnight. that puts the EU time roughly 5 am for the Europe servers. I do understand the OP's problem with trying to fill a queue. Its more than just "trying to queue a little later" I've spent almost 3 hours in a queue for ST and FL (Whichever pops first) only to give up cause I needed to go to sleep. Oh, and I am a tank BTW so really, why is there such a long wait for a queue? There are other reasons why this is happening and its probably not any single reason but an accumulation of issues.

On Ragnarok (Chaos datacenter) I waited for CT around 10 minutes as a Monk. During 2.1 i waited longer for CT1.
It also help to check retainers or talk to some NPCs for a quest to speed up the queue time.

For Frontline it help to check for "in progress"

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Actually the EU servers are lumped with the NA servers because they all connect to the same physical location somewhere in Quebec(?). I'm on Ragnarok an EU server and the rest of the "Data Center" is NA. But basically, the data centers are a mixed bag of nuts. Depending on the time of day you play and your time zone it may not get any better for the player trying to get a party.

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Yes, they are physically in Quebec together with the NA server. But they don't get grouped together.
You can check it at the end of Frontline. In the list you can read from which servers the players are. You would see that there are only servers from the Chaos group in it, which are all EU servers.

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On Ragnarok (Chaos datacenter) I waited for CT around 10 minutes as a Monk. During 2.1 i waited longer for CT1.
It also help to check retainers or talk to some NPCs for a quest to speed up the queue time.

For Frontline it help to check for "in progress"


Yes, they are physically in Quebec together with the NA server. But they don't get grouped together.
You can check it at the end of Frontline. In the list you can read from which servers the players are. You would see that there are only servers from the Chaos group in it, which are all EU servers.

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sorry misunderstoond the data center thing. but still, I'm a tank queueing for ST and FL with in progress and all languages selected yet I still end up waiting for quite a long time. Some times it is quicker but the last two days have been bad.