Quote Originally Posted by Brigog View Post
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You make it so easy to discredit you... Read this link about the 3 smaller server groups now: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...66d5ddfed8ac50
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Not sure if you saw it, but from that link:

Quote Originally Posted by Lodestone
[Increased Number of Instance Worlds]
The Duty Finder and quest instance battles are handled internally in their own separate Worlds. In addition to the above measure of easing server load by splitting the selection pool amongst the above groups, we have also increased the number of instance-related Worlds on which battles occur.
This measure allows the facilitation of more instances, decreasing cases in which players must wait for an instance to become open after they have already been matched by the Duty Finder or the quest instance battle has been initiated.
SE is obviously aware of the issue where people are forced to wait for instance servers to become available and has been taking steps to alleviate the problem. This patch increased the number of instance servers that are available.

The duty finder groups have been split into smaller sections, certainly, but the number of instance servers has increased, not decreased.


I'm going to assume that this is still just part of SE's overall server upgrade, and not the final form of it.