Please Fix MSQ

Dear Development team,

I have been trying to help my wife finish the Stormblood main scenario and for whatever reason, the Lochs (the location of her next quest) will never let her enter. This has been going on all day.

Please fix. Don't we pay a subscription fee for game functionality?

It's from people camping for Ixion. Once Ixion spawns, people will have no reason to camp again until 36 hours pass. It's not a bug. It's a limitation. Zones seem to have around a 500 person limit and when it's reached, it won't let anybody else enter. The solution is to bring back instances for the Loch until the majority have their Ixion mount and this camping congestion clears up.

The zone is probably full from all the Ixion campers. Might be better to go during off hours or to level something else to pass the time. I do think instances should come back for the Lochs area at least.

The reason for that is that people are camping that area for the Ixion-Fate... there are a couple of threads discussing that issue atm.

...maybe it helps to know why you're encountering that problem: Because a bunch of people decided they need that mount so badly that they need to afk in that area and block everyone else from entering.

Well it doesn't help the thing is on a 72-hour timer and can spawn at any time whenever RNG decides it spawns. Hyperion in particular is at hour 69 of the wait.

That's all well and good but why the hell would they leave the MSQ there when this is a problem? Make a separate instance for the MSQ players or something.

And besides didn't the Odin clusterfuck in 2.0 teach them anything? I thought it did when they made a trial version. But now we're at square one all over again.

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Originally Posted by Hieral

That's all well and good but why the hell would they leave the MSQ there when this is a problem? Make a separate instance for the MSQ players or something.

And besides didn't the Odin clusterfuck in 2.0 teach them anything? I thought it did when they made a trial version. But now we're at square one all over again.

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There was no clusterfuck with Odin for whatever reason. The trial is completely unrelated and has nothing to do with that: It was the battle challenge at the first Fan Fest and then added to the game in the following patch, just like how Proto-Ultima was the battle challenge at the last one and then added a patch later.

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Originally Posted by dark494

There was no clusterfuck with Odin for whatever reason. The trial is completely unrelated and has nothing to do with that: It was the battle challenge at the first Fan Fest and then added to the game in the following patch, just like how Proto-Ultima was the battle challenge at the last one and then added a patch later.

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Odin spawned in a random zone in the shroud. You couldn't camp one particular zone for it.

I think he meant the Odin FATE, which did indeed reach zone player limits and caused grief with people trying to do their MSQ.

As to clusterfucks, well, we had the exact same problem during 2.0 launch with a level 15 quest and during Stormblood launch with the "Raubahn Trial". The devs repeat the same mistake regularly.

There was quite a clusterfuck. Mass DCs, mass zone lag, you couldn't even see him 95% of the time.

The trial seems to have a lot to do with it considering he drops the glamour equivalent of the Herlklaedi, in multiple components, with more than one version (a Dom version).

In fact, the only reason to do the FATE anymore is the sword and barding.

I'm completely aware of the FATE version of Odin too, I did it numerous times, still have the full set from him. It just wasn't a mess back in the day like it is now, definitely none of this zone congestion problem, or massive instability causing the entire instance to crash for periods at a time, even though we have "better" servers now. Hence why I specifically said "it has nothing to do with the trial version"

Odin did crash entire zones back in ARR.

Good news, it just died. You're free to go in.

Yeah until tomorrow.

Why have a zone that functions 25% of the time? That's not acceptable.

Yes, I agree they need to either put 3 instances of the loch back up, cut down the 72hr respawn or let it spawn in multiple zones.

I remember the days when Odin casts Zantetsuken, and everyone received the infamous 90k dmg.