SE, I dare you can beat my Ampador Keep Duty Finder wait time! Screenshot inside!

[RentisB]

It doesn't matter if its a preformed or a duty built group. The problem is there are only so many "instances" of AK that can run at a time so you have a full group waiting in a queue to get an empty instance basically. And that line is huge.

[redisdrunk]

Gotta get those ever so precious virtual gear lumps. Dangit SE can you do nothing right?..

You don't have to wait two hours.

Man. You're right. What a bunch of idiots we are, expecting to participate in the content of this game we're all playing; which is all being funneled through this one specific door.

This dude has the right of it. I mean. Frankly. We're straight lucky that they even let us keep persistent characters, right?

And on a serious note. I don't know whether it's the denialists or the people conflating being optimistic with being apologetic for some of the games more serious issues I find more disheartening at this point. I'm incredibly enthusiastic about this game. I, honestly, love it despite it's myriad of flaws and often over sanitized approach to design. It's beautiful, and I find it surprisingly compelling. I think, eventually, it'll be a truly fantastic product.

People paid for a product, and are subscribing to a service. It's not as if they're asking Square to give them access to HBO or make them sandwiches. They aren't asking for something weird and unreasonable. People are being denied access to a part of the game that's incredibly core to it, by Square's own design. This isn't people saying "Well! I don't like that X class has X skill! In my opinion...". This is simply people wanting to play the game.

They made this 'door' the one place players are going to pile up when they hit the iLevel gear hump, and then made it worse by not allowing more than a few dozen people through said 'door' at a time, and then requiring people to immediately run to the back of the line to get through the one 'door' a dozen more times. People aren't complaining about the door (though it would be nice to have another door or two as an alternative), people aren't complaining about returning to the end of the line after walking through it; they're legitimately, completely reasonably, annoyed that they they're being arbitrarily prevented from even approaching the door in the first place.

[PrinceJunio]

I spent almost 2 hours waiting before I decided to log off and get some sleep. I had no idea it was going to take so long. Ive never waited that long for any other dungeon. =/

[NyneAlexander]

You guys are all 100% correct that this is bullshit and there needs to be A.) more ways to get myth tombs, B.) more dedicated AK server space or C.) a combination of the two (although I believe option A. would fix everything).

Right now the work around for this is to wait until Thursday-Sunday to do AK runs. Once the "gimmie tombs now" peeps finish their runs for the week, there is virtually no wait for an AK instance.

Perfect short-term solution (imo): Make "hard modes" for every dungeon in the game for characters at level 50. Make them drop myth tombs. Give a bonus for people who flag these dungeons as "random duty finder" dungeons.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Really, I had this problem too, feels really bad paying a monthly fee and not being allowed to do what you paid for :\

[Mairuzu]

Pretty much why I stuck to my tank instead of my black mage. Instant queues to gear the other classes quicker.

But this definitely needs a solution. The only solution I can think of is shouting for AK in mor dhona that way no one drops from the queue because that brings you back to the beginning which is why you wait so long. People keep dropping from the queue.

For example, a tank will finally join your queue and it'll show you already have a full party ready but since AK is full you have to wait. If someone decides "screw this" and leave, then you're back to the front while you wait for another.

[ArcheustheWise]

People paid for a product, and are subscribing to a service. It's not as if they're asking Square to give them access to HBO or make them sandwiches.

Id love SE to come over and make me sandwiches... as long as its all organic im kewl, where do i sign? :P




*fishes while people wait in a long line in order to get gear to farm more gear to farm more...*

[Johnist]

Some things will improve the time:
1) Additional Duty Finder servers (more instaces) - Mid October
2) Additional sources of Myth tomes - November
3) Running it on Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun.

[El_Brujo]

this is a huge fail only 1 Dungeon the cap is very low 300 really wtf is going to take you 2 weeks for each piece of gear by the time you are halfway the new contents is going to drop.

Solution raise the cap so we can get 1 piece a week and include 2 Dungeons 40 tomes of myth for each this way we have another option other than AK. ppl hate wasted their time especially when they are paying.....

[ghondon]

Run titan for tomes with a preformed FC. Is is substantially faster if you can own titan. 7-8 minute per run, 10 tomes per run. AK =30 minutes for a run with no que timer on average. So with no que ak is faster. With a que Titan demoslishes AK. You also get 20 of the crappy tomes. So 4 titans=1 AK. Carry(sell) server mates or friends in the process and get love or gil at the same time!