120 Minute Queue and counting for AK - Beef up Dungeon Finder

Are there any plans to address the Dungeon Finder again... it is still lacking.


The quickest queue I've had has been 45 minutes and that only happened once. Yes I play a DPS class so the queue will be longer for me than healer/tank.

I've made it a point to ask the healer/tank how long they spent in queue whenever I happen to get in. Their avg. time is 40-60 mins. which is still to long.

Hopefully this can be addressed soon, an avg. queue time for a dugneon should be around 30mins, hell I'd live with an hour... 2 hours is a bit much.

157mins now... party has been selected, reserving instance.... party member bails, back into queue for reserving instance...

Even with pre-made parties, these times are loooong.

At 189 minutes (3 HOURS FOR MATH IMPAIRED), I gave up... and requeued for 5 different dungeons. Took a pic before I exited that queue tho :/

I'm a tank, and it instantly assembles the party, and then it's (at best in the last two days), 45 min to reserve the instance. What jacked up infrastructure is this?!

It is not a duty finder problem is more a job problem, too many dps players running for few tanks that is what makes most queue long.

Lunasea actually showed something important, if he's a Tank (like I am) and he's insta assembly the party members needed, but he still has to wait 40 minutes to get in the dungeon, that's a server problem, physically speaking, there are just not enough slots available for everyone to do Duties as they please...

The more people get to 50, the more duties/instances are gonna be crowded with people farming for Tomestones or whatever they're doing there.

I take it as a major problem...

Anyway, just my 2 gils... I might be wrong though, i'm human, we all are lol...

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It is server problem. They need to reserve spot for a long time because dungeon instant is full. This is coming from someone who has every class at 50 and can play any class to get in Duty Finder quickly.

Although instead of pointing it out as server problem. I want to say it is more about game mechanic problem that ask everybody to play on the same dungeon and not provide enough available spot.

Yeah, what's funny is they increased the duty finder capacity at the same time that they made people take (and thus keep open) 30 minutes longer per AK run. When you go from 17 minute runs to 45, well...

I'm a firmer believer that WP should yield mythos stones, and for all I care, CM/CP could as well (10?20?).

That is funny I don't really stay more than 20 mins waiting for an AK run, but well if u guys say u have problem with it maybe they should take a look.

So far 30 minutes of waiting for AK with my full group (as in, we queued with a full group and have so far spent 30 minutes waiting to get in)

it is all depend on the time that you doing it. During peak time, 30+ min with full party is normal.

it is SE fault to ask everybody to play on the same DF for 60 runs just to get 1 set of gear.

If you run other dungeon thought, those have different DF server, and no need to wait reserve time.

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Originally Posted by Cyn_Bruin

Are there any plans to address the Dungeon Finder again... it is still lacking.


The quickest queue I've had has been 45 minutes and that only happened once. Yes I play a DPS class so the queue will be longer for me than healer/tank.

I've made it a point to ask the healer/tank how long they spent in queue whenever I happen to get in. Their avg. time is 40-60 mins. which is still to long.

Hopefully this can be addressed soon, an avg. queue time for a dugneon should be around 30mins, hell I'd live with an hour... 2 hours is a bit much.

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I waited 50 minutes this morning queuing with tank and healer. We get an instance and the pug DPS declines the queue, so my group gets has to wait another thirty minutes to reserve an instance. Why does this happen? We didn't decline the queue, some AFK DPS did.

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Originally Posted by Thyrllan

I waited 50 minutes this morning queuing with tank and healer. We get an instance and the pug DPS declines the queue, so my group gets has to wait another thirty minutes to reserve an instance. Why does this happen? We didn't decline the queue, some AFK DPS did.

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Having a premade group and waiting 30 minutes is bad enough.. But having a premade group, where one person leaves after 35 minutes (resetting the queue time for reasons beyond my understanding), then having a member not accept the queue because they've had to goto the bathroom for over an hour (again, resetting the queue time, which at this point is well into prime time) is just a poorly designed system..

Seriously after getting all our money, they should atleast bother to upgrade their instance server. But nope. Instead they chose to pocket the cash

As I said in a previous post. I understand as a DPS I will have a longer wait than a tank or a healer... I don't mind 30 min. waits... sometimes I don't mind 60min waits, there's enough things I want to do that can occupy that time.

But 189 minutes!? Like I said, I got out of the queue (was in full party for more than 1.5 hours) and then re-queued for 5 dungeons (WP, AK, Ifrit: Hard, Prae, Castrum)...

I got a pop on my queue 30mins later to do HM Ifrit. At that time it was 10:30pm cst so I took it. Took 10mins to beat the instance then had to sleep for work.

So from 5:30cst to 10:30 I was in a queue waiting for a dungeon.

SE Please add more infrastructure to the Duty Finder server, it is lacking big time. This is a server issue, has nothing to do with DPS. Reserving an instance took more than 2 hours for a pre-formed party... very weak.

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Originally Posted by Cyn_Bruin

At 189 minutes (3 HOURS FOR MATH IMPAIRED), I gave up... and requeued for 5 different dungeons. Took a pic before I exited that queue tho :/

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Make friends.
Build successful FC.
Farm dungeons with static parties.

`but but but i wanna solo`

k. It's worked well so far. Keep at it. :3

@Bridgeburner - You should probably read the thread before you make yourself look like a fool with smart!@# responses... The issue isn't the queue to FIND a group, it's the queue for a full group to get onto the dungeon server.

For example, as a solo dps, if I queue at 6:00 AM EST I'm looking at ~30 minute wait to find a group and get into the dungeon, if I try the same thing at 8:00 PM EST I'm looking at ~30 minute wait to find a group + 30-60 minute wait to reserve a spot on the dungeon's server. Of course this only applies to AK, if I queue for a CM I consistently get 20 minute queues with no issue.

AK is our only way to consistently get Tomes of Myth, that's absolutely ridiculous
The AK server can't handle the load, I assume when you run AK it's on a Commodore 64.

Solution is to spread out where we can grind out Tomes of Myth and/or increase the capacity of the instance servers.

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Originally Posted by Bridgeburner

Make friends.
Build successful FC.
Farm dungeons with static parties.

`but but but i wanna solo`

k. It's worked well so far. Keep at it. :3

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I have queued solo and in a group as I'm sure you all have. TBH theres not that much difference in the time it takes to get into a dungeon. The Dungeon Finder system doesn't seem to have issues making the party, as a solo when I queue it only takes 10-15mins for party to form. It's waiting for the Instance to be Reserved that takes forever. As I stated, sat in a party for 2+ hours just looking at Reserving Instance...

Check join grp in progress...there are probably 200 half grps sitting in their dungeon waiting for a tank/healer. As a dps if you check join grp in progress, I get an instant queue. Tanks/healers do the same and this issue would resolve itself. Instead people are being selfish and impatient..

What I find the most strange about the "Reserving instance.." regarding Amdapor Keep is that it's almost exclusive for that instance. Why have they limited the DF servers to a per dungeon entry basis rather than a total number? If you queue for nearly anything else with a full group or enough people in the DF looking for it, they will get in instantly.

This doesn't make much sense, especially since it should've been expected that Amdapor Keep in particular would end up this popular when it's the only dungeon that rewards a ratio of Tomes of Mythology worth the time spent outside of the Coil (Primal Hard fights don't award enough to make it worth doing, not to mention you can't do anything with the excessive weapon drops), which has a limited amount that you can get per week (and even less players can actually clear even the first first wing which is 50 Tomes).

they have to reserve some mroe isntances from other places because there isnt as many running lower end ones. i expect and upgrade to them again soon

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Originally Posted by Bridgeburner

Make friends.
Build successful FC.
Farm dungeons with static parties.

`but but but i wanna solo`

k. It's worked well so far. Keep at it. :3

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Hi, might I suggest you read just two posts every page? I believe that while you're incapable of reading a thread, or knowing mechanics of the game, this shouldn't be too much stress on you, and it may enlighten you that the majority here are speaking about queuing with a full group. Thanks! :3

So gave it a whirl again (as a tank with instant party assembly both times) at both 3AM EST, and 10AM EST. Party was assembled instantly. At 3AM, I gave up when the "reserving instance" hit 90+ min. This morning at 10AM EST, assembly was instant, but reservation took about 70 min.

I even had a party premade, with three other FC members. After about 40 min one of them had to leave for work and we all gave up.

yeah i tried again around 11am cst and after 70 minutes of reserving (it was a tank and a dps, finding a group was instant) he DCed and we decided not to queue again

70 minutes for the level 20 Ifrit instance... this is absolute rubbish ><

Been in the queue now for AK for over 2 hours as a healer, also tried joining a party in progress earlier on but I only waited 40 mins until I gave up on that, this is getting pretty frustrating.

It is kinda sad though that despite us being their source of income, they still choose to ignore us. Instead of using some.of the money they got from us into upgrading their servers, which will lead to a longer subscriptions from players, they chose to pocket all the money :c

Currently 76 minutes in AK queue with a full pre-made party.

Thought it was just a slight problem yesterday. Looking at the posts here... its gonna be a trend today too?

UPGRADE YOUR DF SERVERS!

Yep, my current record is 177 mins for AK. And yes, I hit "Withdraw". Not sure how much longer it would've been.
http://i.imgur.com/Ie7HRdl.jpg

It's an embarrassment. I sit in a queue longer than it takes for me to run AK once (always with full premades). If we haven't had issues with the Duty Finder since P4, maybe I'd have more patience - but we haven't. It's been an issue since the first day I logged in and it *still* sucks. What the hell?

Yeah, it is frustraiting as hell. We had 3 FC members (our tank had a fire alarm call) so we sat there and waited, and waited... found a tank, reserving instance, tank drops, reset, found tank, reserving instance, tank drops, reset... rinse... repeat. I am sure we were just highly unlucky to keep getting tanks queuing that didn't actually want to wait for the instance reservation. 1 hour later of this constant back and forth our tank came back from his emergency call, we were inbetween tanks at the time (as in... it hadn't paired us up with a tank again, nevermind being at the reserving instance part) so we just left queue and did a full party queue. 45 minutes later we were finally in the dungeon.

We started this vicious cycle at about 7:30 EST... finally got into a dungeon at around 9:30... this is terrible. It isn't a problem with people queuing or not queuing... it is a lack of space on the server.

Yeah, I doubt they balanced the tome costs and stuff around an additional hour of wait time per instance run....almost doubling the effective cost of everything.

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Originally Posted by ApolloGenX

Yeah, I doubt they balanced the tome costs and stuff around an additional hour of wait time per instance run....almost doubling the effective cost of everything.

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Yep this too. Are all worlds sharing the Duty Finder server? or is it just 4-5 servers? Either way they need to rethink their distribution of resources on this as its one of the lifebloods of the game. A lot of people are becoming high level now and want to test the various content only to be turned/driven away by loooooong queue times.

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Originally Posted by Lunasea

I'm a tank, and it instantly assembles the party, and then it's (at best in the last two days), 45 min to reserve the instance. What jacked up infrastructure is this?!

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Same thing here. This started to happened last saturday for me and it's only getting worse every day. As a tank, the party gets gathered either instantly or after 5 min if the queue is short on healer and then starts the wait....wait for a slot on the instance server to open. This is a huge issue that needs to be adressed asap. I will not wait a month for this to be fixed, when I come back from work and want to do one dungeon or 2 in the vening before going to bed I want to have fun. I don't want to spend 45 minutes doing something else than what I wanted initially. This is ruining my fun right now.

Well, I got a whopping two runs done in 4.5 hours...something needs to be fixed. This is unacceptable.