Anybody else on the verge of unsubscribing?

[Likkie]

This game is not suitable for casual gamers like me. You can't progress by going solo.

I only have a 1 or 2 hours each day to play. I am OK with the fact that I will never have a static group to play and raid with.

I can't understand why it is necessary to complete group quests to progress the main story. I have spent all my gaming time in the last week registered with Duty Finder in order progress. I haven't gotten in to Sastasha ONCE.

I want to progress these quests so that I can get a retainer. It pretty pointless bothering to level up my crafters and gatherers until I do.

I've realised that I'm going to run into this problem over & over.

I really love this game and I'm sure there's gonna be heaps more it has to offer. I really look forward to coming home from work and playing each afternoon.

I have 11 days of game time left. If I haven't gotten into Sastasha by then that'll be it.

Now that I realise that I'm never gone be able to progress I'm over it.

[Kat_Manx]

This game is not suitable for casual gamers like me. You can't progress by going solo.

I only have a 1 or 2 hours each day to play. I am OK with the fact that I will never have a static group to play and raid with.

I can't understand why it is necessary to complete group quests to progress the main story. I have spent all my gaming time in the last week registered with Duty Finder in order progress. I haven't gotten in to Sastasha ONCE.

I want to progress these quests so that I can get a retainer. It pretty pointless bothering to level up my crafters and gatherers until I do.

I've realised that I'm going to run into this problem over & over.

I really love this game and I'm sure there's gonna be heaps more it has to offer. I really look forward to coming home from work and playing each afternoon.

I have 11 days of game time left. If I haven't gotten into Sastasha by then that'll be it.

Now that I realise that I'm never gone be able to progress I'm over it.

I feel bad for you so I might have a few suggestions for the reason it's so bad for you:

1. Did you know you are on a Japanese server? Your Duty Finder defaults to you searching only for English speaking members if you are from the US or EU or something, I think. So make sure to check EVERY language box in the Duty Finder EVERY time you search. Because as you might have guessed, the Japanese servers have more Japanese speaking players than English speaking players.

2. Move to a US server.

3. Play a healer or a tank.

But honestly I suspect my first point is your issue here. Hope it helps.

[Likkie]

I feel bad for you so I might have a few suggestions for the reason it's so bad for you:


But honestly I suspect my first point is your issue here. Hope it helps.

Hey thanks for the tips. I joined Tonberry because I play from Australia, Japan has lower pings. Tonberry is supposed to have the biggest aussie community.

I thought about selecting other languages but then thought it might be bit rude. I'll give it a go when I get home this afternoon.

And thanks for not shooting me down in flames. ** A nice surprise ***

[lxSch]

I can't understand why it is necessary to complete group quests to progress the main story. I have spent all my gaming time in the last week registered with Duty Finder in order progress. I haven't gotten in to Sastasha ONCE.

I have 11 days of game time left. If I haven't gotten into Sastasha by then that'll be it.

DPS classes have 30-40 minutes waiting time for dungeons, sometimes longer. If you started dps class thinking it's more universal - it's not, all content is about duty/party finder for 4-8 people.
Tanker roles usually have queues within 2-3 minutes, but most of people are unforgiving for new tankers and it's better not to try.
Healers (before lv30 conjurer is the only healer class, but sch is easier later) have queue within 5-7 minutes and people are much more forgiving to them since there is very little a healer can do to fail sastasha.
Duty finder is cross-server so it does not matter what server you are on, but make sure to check all languages and queue within primary server time (10 am - 12 pm), outside of it people usually sleep.

[Likkie]

DPS classes have 30-40 minutes waiting time for dungeons, sometimes longer. If you started dps class thinking it's more universal - it's not, all content is about duty/party finder for 4-8 people.

Duty finder is cross-server so it does not matter what server you are on, but make sure to check all languages and queue within primary server time (10 am - 12 pm), outside of it people usually sleep.

Thanks for the reply. I realise that Tanks and Healers have a very short queue. I just don't know if I can cope with the grief you get by playing one. I'd like to get better at the game in general before I take on one of those roles.

My real issue is that you HAVE to do these group quest to progress.

Cheers.

[KupoNuts]

This game is not suitable for casual gamers like me. You can't progress by going solo.

You know this is MMORPG, right? Not a single player game?

[Likkie]

You know this is MMORPG, right? Not a single player game?

Yes if course. In other MMORPGs you can still progress playing solo. You might miss out on some good stuff and it may take a lot longer, but its still doable.

In FFXIV its not.

[Kinku]

Yes if course. In other MMORPGs you can still progress playing solo. You might miss out on some good stuff and it may take a lot longer, but its still doable.

In FFXIV its not.

What do you mean? What part of the game you feel like it should be solo? Most group quest that people are looking for are Primal/Coil/events. If you make those fight easy enough so one person can do it than whats the point