Stuck looking for raid for MSQ

I've been queuing for Labyrinth of the Ancients for a couple of days straight now and I can't seem to get a raid happening.

Everyday the first thing I do when I log in is queue for the raid and been waiting for more than an hour every day. I'm on 82 mins waiting time as I type this and still waiting.

Is there any way I can skip this raid or improve my chance of getting a raid?

The only way of skipping it would be to buy a story skip potion, I assume.

In regards to improving your chances of getting into the raid, a few things come to mind - sorry if they turn out to be redundant because you're already aware of them.
I see you're playing on a japanese server - did you make sure to have all languages check when queueing? Also: Does your playtime correlate with the primetime on your server, aka: are you actually living in a timezone close to japan? If not it may be a good idea to move to a server that fits your timezone better in order to avoid such hassle in the future.

It's also worth noting that if you are trying to queue as a tank for an alliance raid, your wait times can be significant.

Setting your duty finder to all languages makes a huge difference to your queue times on a Japanese server. You will have been having longer waiting times on other content as well because of this.

Once you open the duty finder menu, there's an options button (gear icon) in the top bar. Turn on all the languages there.

Thanks guys! Changing the language settings helped tremendously.

I managed to get into the raid in about 5 mins! Thank you so much for the help :)

Good to hear. It can potentially be frustrating getting matched with people you cant really chat with, but waiting endlessly because there arent enough english speakers in the que isnt any less frustrating. You can use that trick for pretty much any "normal" que in the game.

Careful the ARR story skip doesn't skip it. It skips ARR story, but Crystal Tower is annex to ARR. It only is main requisite for Shadowbringers, so it will be unlocked with Shadow book. I've been had on this topic for my reroll, it's either the raids or stuck until book of Shadow is here.

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Originally Posted by Karshan

Careful the ARR story skip doesn't skip it. It skips ARR story, but Crystal Tower is annex to ARR. It only is main requisite for Shadowbringers, so it will be unlocked with Shadow book. I've been had on this topic for my reroll, it's either the raids or stuck until book of Shadow is here.

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Having recently used a Stormblood story skip to the beginning of Shadowbringers, I can confirm that CT is auto-completed as part of the skip now.

That said, it is absolutely unnecessary to use a story skip to get around the CT quests. The queue time should not be a problem (when not having the incorrect language settings that cause wider and ongoing issues with queue times), the raids large-scale dungeons are not hard, and the story context is important for later.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Having recently used a Stormblood story skip to the beginning of Shadowbringers, I can confirm that CT is auto-completed as part of the skip now.

That said, it is absolutely unnecessary to use a story skip to get around the CT quests. The queue time should not be a problem (when not having the incorrect language settings that cause wider and ongoing issues with queue times), the raids large-scale dungeons are not hard, and the story context is important for later.

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So It means I bought mine too soon on my reroll. Damn. So it really IS kind of a fraud (changing the content of the item bought afterwards)

I really dont see how that would be considered fraud. Also, in the time it took to read this thread and type these replies you could have just done the first 2 CT instances.

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So It means I bought mine too soon on my reroll. Damn. So it really IS kind of a fraud (changing the content of the item bought afterwards)

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You paid for a product and received everything you paid for.

It is not fraud for the producers to change the contents of the product for other people who will buy it in future.

What's the actual problem here, and would it be a problem if they'd simply added this story as new MSQ+dungeons in 5.3?

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Originally Posted by Iscah

You paid for a product and received everything you paid for.

It is not fraud for the producers to change the contents of the product for other people who will buy it in future.

What's the actual problem here, and would it be a problem if they'd simply added this story as new MSQ+dungeons in 5.3?

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I meant in the sense that this book's intent is to not have MSQ ARR content block you from extensions. CT is side content, but it is ARR. That's why I think it's a grey area, even moreso that they seem to have acknowledged it since NOW, the book also unlocks CT.

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Originally Posted by Karshan

I meant in the sense that this book's intent is to not have MSQ ARR content block you from extensions. CT is side content, but it is ARR. That's why I think it's a grey area, even moreso that they seem to have acknowledged it since NOW, the book also unlocks CT.

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That's the intention, yes. But in any case you paid for a story skip to the start of Shadowbringers, which is not gated by CT. And presumably used it at a point where CT had not yet become mandatory with the release of 5.3.

If CT was required to start playing 5.0 and the story skip didn't complete it for you - dropped you at the start of the game and said "oh sorry, you'll have to go do something else immediately first" - that would be poor planning. But that isn't the case here - they've only introduced the requirement later, and changed the product to reflect that.

I'm having some trouble with getting a group too - i'm on my third day of trying - currently sitting at 48 mins waiting. I can confirm that the language tip that was kindly offered doesn't work (for me at least) all of the other language selection options are greyed out.

I just want to say that I really love this game and so far the story surrounding the Crystal Tower has been really compelling. I also totally get that the story in this quest line has strong relevance for Shadowbringers and that the devs want us to experience it as a result.

But if this is mandatory specifically because there is story relevance - then surely a better option would be to either completely nerf it so it can be experienced solo in some way, or just create a small vignette or cut-scene to fill things in? It just feels like we're partially going through the raid mechanic motions for the sake of it.

Make sure you have the "join in progress" option selected, too.

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Originally Posted by Hugs_are_nice

I'm having some trouble with getting a group too - i'm on my third day of trying - currently sitting at 48 mins waiting. I can confirm that the language tip that was kindly offered doesn't work (for me at least) all of the other language selection options are greyed out.

I just want to say that I really love this game and so far the story surrounding the Crystal Tower has been really compelling. I also totally get that the story in this quest line has strong relevance for Shadowbringers and that the devs want us to experience it as a result.

But if this is mandatory specifically because there is story relevance - then surely a better option would be to either completely nerf it so it can be experienced solo in some way, or just create a small vignette or cut-scene to fill things in? It just feels like we're partially going through the raid mechanic motions for the sake of it.

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Just to make sure: You didnt manage to check the other language options? As in: You're still only queueing with one language selected?

Did you look in the right place to change your language settings?
You need to open the Dutyfinder Window (where you'd queue up for content), click on the little gear in the top left corner and then you should be able to just click on all the languages right at the bottom of the menu that opens up - if they have a yellow/golden border around them, you have successfully selected those languages. Hit "Ok" to apply the changes.