Wait time in queue: 4 hours and counting.

I've signed up for every single current content Raid and Trial as a Summoner. I've now been in queue for over 4 hours. Is this normal? Because this is unplayable. 4+ hours of queue, only to likely get into a group of failures that can't handle the content.

No really, is this how it works now for DPS in the 2/3 of a year I've been away?

That's not how it is for me. Very rarely the DF will bug and you'll essentially never get in unless you queue again

Well, after relogging and trying again, I'm pretty sure this isn't a bug. Over an hour now and still nothing. I'm pretty sure there's just no one playing this game anymore.

People don't seem to do difficult content (raid/trial) on the random DF much. They preform a group with friends.

If you queue for a regular dungeon you see that people still play the game. Or go hunting in the open world.

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Originally Posted by Sumtingwong

I've signed up for every single current content Raid and Trial as a Summoner. I've now been in queue for over 4 hours. Is this normal? Because this is unplayable. 4+ hours of queue, only to likely get into a group of failures that can't handle the content.

No really, is this how it works now for DPS in the 2/3 of a year I've been away?

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Which Raid and Trials are we talking about? If you're talking about CT, that has taken a while since ST came out. If you're referring to the EX modes, most people party finder those.

My character's pretty young, but whenever I que as a healer or a tank for a dungeon, I get a very quick pop. Considering what a lowbie he is, that speaks of a healthy population of players. I think what you're experiencing is just the congested glut that naturally arises from a popular role.

As mentioned if you chose labyrinth of the ancients as one of them that could be causing the issues.
As it's pretty much ignored now it's sequel is out

Thanks for the responses folks. I'm queuing as a DPS and I'm mainly queuing for story content fights like Leviathan and Ramuh Trials as well as turns 2-4 of Coil of Bahamut. I queued with an old healer friend of mine after this thread was made and got more or less instant queues. So I'm guessing that this server just has an extraordinarily imbalanced healer/tank class to damage class preference.

If you're dead set on DPS try MNK or DRG. They have shorter queue times than ranged due to the DF trying to create balanced parties and the overabundance of BRD and BLM skewing the ranged DPS numbers.

You did the right thing buddying up with a healer. Its about the only fast way to get into dungeons as a dps.

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Originally Posted by Sumtingwong

only to likely get into a group of failures that can't handle the content.

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You already stated the reason why your queue takes four hours.

I noticed you're playing on a JP server. Are you queuing with only E selected for language? Based on the time of your post you were queueing in the middle of JP prime time on a Saturday night so there's no way you should have been getting those queue times. Unfortunately being on a primarily JP Data Center you won't get anywhere if you don't queue with at least J clicked. Clicking all languages doesn't hurt either. Are you Oceanic? I don't recall Ultima server being a big Aussie/NZ server either.

Hunts are also partially to blame for this. Why run ANY level 50 dungeon when you can just zerg your way? Starting about 3-4 weeks ago my wait times have increased dramatically, even as tank. Lower level dungeons? Still about the same, because you are not going to be level 30 and joining the hunt swarm.

Thanks for the tips. If only I could now figure out why I'm not allowed to roll on gear in Syrcus Tower this week despite having not won any gear...

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I noticed you're playing on a JP server. Are you queuing with only E selected for language? Based on the time of your post you were queueing in the middle of JP prime time on a Saturday night so there's no way you should have been getting those queue times. Unfortunately being on a primarily JP Data Center you won't get anywhere if you don't queue with at least J clicked. Clicking all languages doesn't hurt either. Are you Oceanic? I don't recall Ultima server being a big Aussie/NZ server either.

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Yeah, I'm an aussie. Had a plan to move here with a few friends but those plans all fell through, but by then I'd already leveled my character up quite a way and didn't want to reroll and restart a third time so I stayed here.

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Originally Posted by Sumtingwong

Thanks for the tips. If only I could now figure out why I'm not allowed to roll on gear in Syrcus Tower this week despite having not won any gear...

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Tomestone and Oil both count as gear. If you've won either of them, or any piece of armor, you can't roll again. The housing item and the minion are the only things that don't count against the weekly lock.

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Originally Posted by Grayve

Tomestone and Oil both count as gear. If you've won either of them, or any piece of armor, you can't roll again. The housing item and the minion are the only things that don't count against the weekly lock.

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I know, and I never rolled on either of them either. I have no gear in my bag from the Tower and no Oil or the Tomestone, hence why I'm at a loss.

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Originally Posted by Sumtingwong

I know, and I never rolled on either of them either. I have no gear in my bag from the Tower and no Oil or the Tomestone, hence why I'm at a loss.

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You may have had an item automatically drop into your bag if everyone else in your party left the zone before you passed on it, or if the timer ran out and you didn't pass.

Unfortunately due to hunts, I don't tank or heal for roulettes much lately. Probably other tanks and healers are the same. There's no point because I'm trying to get allied seals to upgrade soldiery stuff. In addition, I'm working on atma books, so I spend time soloing trivially easy mobs in the open world or waiting for fates to pop instead of running dungeons. Hunts discourage group content because players only need to group up for about 5 minutes at a time to kill a hunt mark.

I like running dungeons but they're a luxury now, as I can't improve my gear with them (well unless I wanted to do Coil, which I don't). If FFXIV added allied seals to duty roulette, I could ignore hunts, which would be great.

And as always, the only real way to get over long queue times is go tank or healer or bring one with you. My queue times are still instant for most content as tank, less so as healer.

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Originally Posted by Brannigan

You may have had an item automatically drop into your bag if everyone else in your party left the zone before you passed on it, or if the timer ran out and you didn't pass.

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That's the thing, I didn't get any items lol. Oh well, not to worry there's always next week.

Yeah, back on topic of the OP, I have an Arcanist that I dread leveling due to this (I'll probably go the route of SCH to 50, healers always win). When I want to level using DF, I just partner up with a tank buddy or healer buddy, that is a win situation! Also, as my WHM, i will proactively seek out the members in FC that need to level characters that have problems in the DF (ranged DPS I'm looking at you!). Just find a Tank/Healer friend as a previous poster mentioned!

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Originally Posted by Sumtingwong

I've signed up for every single current content Raid and Trial as a Summoner. I've now been in queue for over 4 hours. Is this normal? Because this is unplayable. 4+ hours of queue, only to likely get into a group of failures that can't handle the content.

No really, is this how it works now for DPS in the 2/3 of a year I've been away?

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yes this is how it works, most tanks just focus on doing hunts, and just a rough guess (yes, i do not know if this number is accurate, but sounds very possible) that dps outnumber tanks probably 30 to 1, and 20 to 1 for healers
unless you're willing to tank or heal, you get to deal with long queues

also, i dont think many people really focus on trials anymore, you can thank SE for that though.....most trials are only useful for glamour.

Roulettes queues don't last too long for DPS (of course more than for tanks or healers.) Just one instance may have long queues. Even choosing a few instances may have long queues. And no, an hour or more is not normal, from my pont of view. (I don't know for Crystal Tower since they say it has very long wait times lately and never tried it for a long time.)

I haven't completed ramuh or levi yet but mog didn't take too long and I queued as dps. Also titan, ifrit, garuda, and the others were 5 min pops. Not a huge wait time. This is as a dps. I was working towards my final relics for blm and bard. Longest queue time I had was 25 minutes.