Can we keep field zone instancing forever, please?

I really like being able to switch instances when, for example, notorious gathering bot players are active and I tire of seeing that train of characters following the same flight path and hitting nodes in unison.

So staying in the same field zone but changing instances is really nice to escape certain immersion-breakers or unwelcome people you might say. Also useful for questing to avoid massive crowds when new content is added, especially the type of quests that spawn monsters into the field.

The ideal would be removing world-specific instances and just have a unified block of datacenter-wide instances for field zones. So you wouldn't need to use world visit feature at all for field zones and just have access to the same selection of field instances regardless of what world you're currently on.

I would like it gone as fast as possible, people are not smart enough to change instances when they are doing fates and now we have 1 guy doing fates in every instance.

I also like instances mostly because it gives me a way to escape from those stupid FATE/gathering bots.

Of course, there are better ways they could address that issue...

They make the world feel even more unpopulated than it already is.

Would rather they go away as well. But if we're to keep them and keep having them during the first couple or weeks of an expansion going live, then put in an easier way to switch between instances. A command or let us do it from the aetheryte or something?

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Originally Posted by KaitoAsaha

Would rather they go away as well. But if we're to keep them and keep having them during the first couple or weeks of an expansion going live, then put in an easier way to switch between instances. A command or let us do it from the aetheryte or something?

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... We can do it from an aetheryte.

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Originally Posted by Rufalus

I really like being able to switch instances when, for example, notorious gathering bot players are active and I tire of seeing that train of characters following the same flight path and hitting nodes in unison.

So staying in the same field zone but changing instances is really nice to escape certain immersion-breakers or unwelcome people you might say. Also useful for questing to avoid massive crowds when new content is added, especially the type of quests that spawn monsters into the field.

The ideal would be removing world-specific instances and just have a unified block of datacenter-wide instances for field zones. So you wouldn't need to use world visit feature at all for field zones and just have access to the same selection of field instances regardless of what world you're currently on.

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I still think it's weird, especially with how many hunt mobs there are now. Join hunt train for an hour once a week and your tomes go from 0 to cap. Sure it's efficient, but it took away my last incentive to even bother doing roulettes.

I wasn't doing roulettes anymore even without the instances around.

Just having world travel access means there's basically going to be a constant supply of hunt marks to farm for tomes.

I would like the instances removed and for fates and hunts to spawn more frequently. Same effect but we'd see more people in the outdoor maps.

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Originally Posted by RyuSaarva

I would like it gone as fast as possible, people are not smart enough to change instances when they are doing fates and now we have 1 guy doing fates in every instance.

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Sometimes I know other people are FATEing, but If I don't feel particularly social I'll still do FATEs alone even if its less efficent. What you're seeing might include similar people. Not unintelligent, just unsocial at that moment.

I don't mind the instances much, but the extra step involved in meeting someone in the open world does get annoying after awhile. I'm happy that they make the game more stable after an expansion launch, but I won't shed a tear later when the extra instances get removed.

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Originally Posted by CorbinDallas

... We can do it from an aetheryte.

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:O gonna do this once I'm home. I've been entering and re-entering all this damn time.

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Originally Posted by Rufalus

I really like being able to switch instances when, for example, notorious gathering bot players are active and I tire of seeing that train of characters following the same flight path and hitting nodes in unison.

So staying in the same field zone but changing instances is really nice to escape certain immersion-breakers or unwelcome people you might say. Also useful for questing to avoid massive crowds when new content is added, especially the type of quests that spawn monsters into the field.

The ideal would be removing world-specific instances and just have a unified block of datacenter-wide instances for field zones. So you wouldn't need to use world visit feature at all for field zones and just have access to the same selection of field instances regardless of what world you're currently on.

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the instances have their purpose to prevent clusterbombing during the early weeks/months of the expansion, but I cant wait for them to be gone. Even though I know i can benefit greatly from Hunt trains across the data center, I dont even bother doing hunts while instances are a thing bc its just annoying to have to switch so often.

On Goblin at least even during peak times I'd probably say the amount of people I see per zone spread amongst instances is around 50-70. So it won't be too bad once the instances stop.

But it will absolutely hurt the hunt trains since they're missing 4 a ranks per zone. If you do the math that's missing out on 24 A marks a train also not including the S ranks for Shadowbringers.