Duty Finder - Sastasha not working?

For the last 2 nights I've been queued up with my Pugilist for Sastasha in the Duty Finder and nothing has happened.

I was on the duty finder for about 4 hours last night and 2 hours so far tonight and I don't understand how I'm supposed to do this instance if the Duty finder isn't working.

I've tried waiting outside Sastasha and asking for groups, but that hasn't worked either.

Is this just bugged? Is there any way for me to continue the story quests without being stuck here forever?

Early dungeons can be tuff for dps because most people only do them once and move on, thats why you have trouble getting a group. I would say you need to start looking for a good FC to get into, I run those all the time for people in my FC because they always need a tank or healer.

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Originally Posted by fuzzytoad

For the last 2 nights I've been queued up with my Pugilist for Sastasha in the Duty Finder and nothing has happened.

I was on the duty finder for about 4 hours last night and 2 hours so far tonight and I don't understand how I'm supposed to do this instance if the Duty finder isn't working.

I've tried waiting outside Sastasha and asking for groups, but that hasn't worked either.

Is this just bugged? Is there any way for me to continue the story quests without being stuck here forever?

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insta queue for healer, go play it :D

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Originally Posted by oceanlord

insta queue for healer, go play it :D

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that doesn't make any sense. if the duty finder uses a standard group of 2 dps, 1 tank and 1 healer, then I shouldn't have anywhere near the problem I'm having in getting a group through it.

Is it broken?

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/b...0130922_13.jpg

At low levels, DPS are overrepresented, and there aren't enough healers. If you want to do some of the low level dungeons, you either need to wait a long time, find an FC, or change to a role that's in demand (particularly healers).

I leveled as a tank, and usually the queues were instant. At most I waited a couple minutes. The chart shows that healers are highest in demand now, though.

Fewer people are also running dungeons. Currently, it seems people are mostly doing them once for story progression, then ignoring them for fate spams. Hopefully in 2.1 (or when it happens) they will be adding tomestones for running random dungeons, and that should help those long queues.

During early access and the first week or so, queues for my dps were under 20 mins. Not bad, but then almost everyone was still doing story.

Sometimes...you just have to wait. I sat for about an hour tonight trying to get into Sastasha, but I got in...I just had to wait.

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Originally Posted by busere

Sometimes...you just have to wait. I sat for about an hour tonight trying to get into Sastasha, but I got in...I just had to wait.

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Ditto, couldn't get in 2 nights ago but last night it took around an hour.. Just open DF and do other quests/levequests/fates etc. I levelled 1.8 times waiting for the dungeon group. Finally got it, ran it, done. I also clicked the "J" for language as well as english, to get more people in queue that would just 'do the dungeon' no questions asked.

I have to ask, are you clicking the box for Sastasha then going to the bottom of the screen and clicking Join?

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Originally Posted by Radunas

Ditto, couldn't get in 2 nights ago but last night it took around an hour.. Just open DF and do other quests/levequests/fates etc. I levelled 1.8 times waiting for the dungeon group. Finally got it, ran it, done. I also clicked the "J" for language as well as english, to get more people in queue that would just 'do the dungeon' no questions asked.

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forgot to mention this, click all language for faster queue

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Originally Posted by Naberrie

I have to ask, are you clicking the box for Sastasha then going to the bottom of the screen and clicking Join?

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Yes, and like oceanlord said, all languages. If you've played WoW or other MMOs then hopefully you know what role you play and how to play it. Just assume they also know, and if it looks like the tank is hesitating, recommend the first basic steps like marking and holding aggro, etc.

The DF queue/waiting screen will pop over to your quest log on the right hand side of the screen, where you can click on it to see how many people it has found so far, how long you've been waiting, and the average wait time.

The most I had to wait for the first 4 dungeons with my DPS ( thaum ) was around 35 minutes....

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Originally Posted by Darkrotor

Early dungeons can be tuff for dps because most people only do them once and move on.

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It's ALWAYS
been tough for DPS. Always.

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Originally Posted by oceanlord

insta queue for healer, go play it :D

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Post 30 it's not. I am waiting 30+ mins to get into Qarn and other dungeons.
Past Totorak has been hell and I am ticking all languages.

Something was really odd for Sastasha the other night. 3-man queue from our FC, we just needed a dps. Ended up waiting about 5 minutes for the last slot to get filled. I left the status open, and it wasn't time spent reserving an instance. That entire time was 3/4 waiting to fill the dps slot.

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Originally Posted by Arriverderci

Post 30 it's not. I am waiting 30+ mins to get into Qarn and other dungeons.
Past Totorak has been hell and I am ticking all languages.

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Qarn is a bad example. Very few people run it. It can take my healer and my significant other's tank 60+ mins to get into Qarn when we queue together sometimes. It is not a very popular dungeon, which is sad, because it is the first really challenging dungeon in the game.

Ya long DF waits is a bummer but I gotta agree with the folks who suggest rushing a healer role to 50 to clear all story dungeons, there's no waits, you can roll to 50 in less than 2 weeks, and by then a FC will probably recruit you allowing you to go back and level dps with FC members. also while leveling healer you will get tons of gear for other jobs and gil so when you level dps they will be well geared. This is just my personal tactic when playing mmo's.

Sorry but I hafta gloat. I've never waited for a dungeon. :3

Once and awhile I get on WHM and queue up for the storyline dungeons just to help out. Later we will get rewarded for randomly queue up on needed jobs.

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Originally Posted by seekerofpower

Qarn is a bad example. Very few people run it. It can take my healer and my significant other's tank 60+ mins to get into Qarn when we queue together sometimes. It is not a very popular dungeon, which is sad, because it is the first really challenging dungeon in the game.

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That's why I said past Totorak.
I've been in Que hell since then.
Haukke 30 mins, Tototak 30 mins, Brayflox is like 20.
I agree I like Qarn tbh. :/

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Originally Posted by Dastarly_Fox

Sorry but I hafta gloat. I've never waited for a dungeon. :3

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That's because you're 26 CNJ according to loadstone.
You won't have problems to after 30 or so. When we compete with SCH for a spot, and right now
for you CNJ is the only healer pre-30.
Sorry to rain on your parade. c:

Free companies is your best bet. Other players are also picky who they choose
I waited to fight Ifrit for a while and there were multiple mages, lancers and archers and i was a tank. None signed in
finally just left and did it with members o f the Free company i am in the next day

My friend and I waited all night to get into Toto-Rak and didn't end up getting in a DF party at all. We eventually decided to give up since it was getting late... I get that we're DPS, but still... Guess I'll try with all languages selected tomorrow and hope for the best. :/ Hopefully once I am a Scholar things will go a little faster.

Oddly my friends and I did Toto Rak an hour ago. Only thing we need to wait for was a random tank to join , and of course we moaned thinking it was gonna take a min of 30 min. but , alas, it took 3.5 minutes xD haha
But its always when you don't have all night that it takes...all night :<