Could I skip the dungeon quest in MSQ?

Hihi,
My friend and I are new to FF14 and going through the Heavensward MSQ - LOVE the Story! But we are stuck on this dungeon quest Lord of the Hive for 3 days because the game couldn't find enough people needed. Perhaps waiting longer (> 1 hr) could help, but our schedule only allows minimal game time, and it seems silly to spend that just waiting. Is there a way to skip a dungeon quest like this so we can move on?

Now our game time is ending, and we are wondering if it's worth continuing. It's a shame because we love the story.

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Originally Posted by Nana137

Hihi,
My friend and I are new to FF14 and going through the Heavensward MSQ - LOVE the Story! But we are stuck on this dungeon quest Lord of the Hive for 3 days because the game couldn't find enough people needed. Perhaps waiting longer (> 1 hr) could help, but our schedule only allows minimal game time, and it seems silly to spend that just waiting. Is there a way to skip a dungeon quest like this so we can move on?

Now our game time is ending, and we are wondering if it's worth continuing. It's a shame because we love the story.

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Instead of using the duty finder place the fight in Party Finder or ask in the Novice chat for help you will fill the party fast. If not bothered about the fight you could even get a high level to unsync and kill it solo for you.

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Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

Instead of using the duty finder place the fight in Party Finder or ask in the Novice chat for help you will fill the party fast. If not bothered about the fight you could even get a high level to unsync and kill it solo for you.

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I echo this. Open the party finder in the menu and put words like "MSQ unsync"

Since your new, you go into the duty finder and there's a cog at the top. Click unsync and anyone that helps will be a levels higher than the duty. (Just make sure you turn it off after)

You can do this for most duty's if you can't find a que. What server are you on?

1. You are playing on Anima, a Japanese world. The dungeon queues match you based on language. Needless to say, most people on Japanese worlds speak Japanese. Therefore, you need to adjust the matching so it puts you with Japanese players.

Do this by pressing U (or typing /dutyfinder), then going to the gold bar at the top and clicking the Cog Wheel (* button), then select J as a language.

2. You can do the dungeons with Duty Support. There is no command for this as far as I know.

3. Lord of the Hive is a trial (so you do it with 8 people similar to Leviathan and Ramuh). A higher level player can help you kill this in a few hits if you recruit for help in /partyfinder and select "Unrestricted". You will also need to select "Unrestricted" when you queue for it using the gold bar at the top of Duty Finder again.

4. You can't actually skip it. Even if you pay money for a story skip and replay the story with New Game+, it will still ask you to complete the trial eventually, although you may have the gear to solo it by then using the Unrestricted setting.

Ahh a JP server.

Start by opening the party finder: type the name of the duty and hit tab (R1 on ps5) you will see 2 coloured arrows in the name of the duty. That will auto translate it for people viewing it.

So (lord of the hive) TAB (unrestricted) TAB (main story) TAB

Something like that

Just had to log in to have a look so set up a party finder:

Thok ast thok TAB unrestricted party TAB help me out TAB

Goto duty finder - cog top left select unrestricted party so it has a tick

Not sure if you are doing it on your character linked to your forum profile but you can easily do it unsynced on a lv90 BRD

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Originally Posted by YukioKobayashi

Not sure if you are doing it on your character linked to your forum profile but you can easily do it unsynced on a lv90 BRD

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Then you can unsync it with Duty Finder - cog (top left) tick un restricted party - confirm then que.

Or the other way, upto you. Fingers crossed you get it done! Goodluck!

There's no need to resort to doing it unrestricted. Adjust your DF settings to match you with other languages (Jeeqbit posted the instructions earlier) and then you can just queue as normal and get the full experience.

Sorry for the late response and thank you all for the great suggestions! We will definitely give them a try. Can't wait to continue the story!

Adding to what some people are suggesting, after you've made your Party Finder for the duty, go to every zone (particularly in the big cities Limsa, Ul'Dah and Gridania) and make a little post in Shout Chat:

"Hello! My friend an I are trying to get into Thok Ast Thok for MSQ, but we don't have enough People! Please join our Party Finder so we can clear it!"

Remember, one shout per zone should be enough. More than that is Spam, but asking for help like that is totally fair play in an MMO, and how I got a party to help my brother in law clear a big older boss fight at like 1am. You can also queue up normally for the duty, and still go ask around for help.

Remember, you're in an MMO, and people will be happy to help if you simply ask around!

Is there a server on JP that is considered the 'English' servers? There must surely be one?

@nana see if you can find out if there is a 'english' popular server in JP region.
You can Data centre travel from login menu.
You can world travel from the three big city aetherites.

Once you find a server that consistently seems to be much better, maybe pay for transfer.

Also when are you playing JP time? Why are you on JP?
Maybe you are OCEANIA? In which case you can even Region travel in that unique case. (Maybe don't transfer there)

If you are not near JP, then maybe you would be better in another region. Not OCEANIA though. (Check with someone who knows, but I gather the lack of cross DC Party Finder caused the raiding scene to collapse, and from there the entire region. Could be good for just a quick MSQ queue though.)

I've just realised was OCEANIA just to get gaijin Australian culture away from JP Raidfinder and DF? I doubt it. But it's an uncharacteristic expenditure for SQX. Maybe they had some unused marvel hardware going.

First question would be: why are you playing on a japanese server. If you're from Aus/NZ I'd honestly find something else to play because your 2 options are playing on servers where you're not welcome and can't understand a single letter or playing with trash ping on US/EU and lock yourself out of any remotely challenging content by default.

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Originally Posted by Kandraxx

First question would be: why are you playing on a japanese server. If you're from Aus/NZ I'd honestly find something else to play because your 2 options are playing on servers where you're not welcome and can't understand a single letter or playing with trash ping on US/EU and lock yourself out of any remotely challenging content by default.

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Seriously?! I mean I didn't quite believe myself but might they ACTUALLY have created Oceania just to get rid of the gaijins?
Are english speakers actually unwelcome?
I mean I've said before if they are in J high end PFs trying to speak English I can understand. That's not ok. It's disruptive. It's selfish.
But are we taking about more unwelcoming than that?
If Oceania was created just to purify JP, if your prepared to go that far, then we would just be dealing with unapologetic racism.
You tackle poor player behaviour head on. You don't spend 100,000s to millions on hardware provisioning to segregate people.
We'll never know though. I'm still going to hope for better. (But me on my guard)

No I think they had to expand JP, and said 'well let's just create OCEANIA.
But Fd up by creating too much capacity, and not moving fast enough with region travel to smooth things over for raiders.

OCEANIA. Should have worked.
But as with most things, the problem is high end.

Oh. And they should have allowed, permanent, free, unlimited transfers to and from Oceania.
Just limited that to two regions for any single player.