Is the Duty Finder working as it should?

[Tadacho]

Queues are generally longer after a patch... It might seem like they would be faster because there are more people playing, but they are actually longer - especially for tanks and healers, because each queue only requires one of those and there are simply too many people playing. I also think there is a cap on instances, which might stem as a result of there only being 2 dungeons now, but basically the instances are full, and so the long queue times develop because you're also waiting for people to complete dungeons and free up the instance space.

Incidentally playing in quieter times of day will get you in a lot faster than peak hours.

Also to clarify two misconceptions:

1. The 0/0 thing is a display error only. It's listed in the known issues and also in the dev response here.

2. The "Average Wait Time" is not as estimate of how long YOUR queue is going to be, it is showing you how long the last person before you queued.

tl;dr it's not broken, apart from the display error, queues are always longer after a patch especially during peak

[Remilia_Nightfall]

Queues are generally longer after a patch...

Oh please.

Roulette queues ARE broken when you get in almost instantly by queuing for individual dungeons. It's not a matter of lack of players.

[Tadacho]

Oh please.

Roulette queues ARE broken when you get in almost instantly by queuing for individual dungeons. It's not a matter of lack of players.

I'm pretty sure I said it's because there's too many players, and full instances. I just did my daily expert and lvl 60 roulette on BLM and waited less than 5 minutes for both. Because it's off-peak right now. It's not an ideal situation, but basically the queues and more importantly, the instances, are too full during peak hours. Like anything, the busier the time of day, the longer the queues, whether this be going to the bank IRL, or queuing a roulette ingame lol :

Individual dungeon queues are prioritised over roulette; they have a system in place to accommodate that because usually people who queue a specific dungeon -need- that dungeon for something, such as first time clear. This was mentioned in 2.x patch notes somewhere.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

I'm pretty sure I said it's because there's too many players, and full instances. I just did my daily expert and lvl 60 roulette on BLM and waited less than 5 minutes for both. Because it's off-peak right now. It's not an ideal situation, but basically the queues and more importantly, the instances, are too full during peak hours. Like anything, the busier the time of day, the longer the queues, whether this be going to the bank IRL, or queuing a roulette ingame lol :

Individual dungeon queues are prioritised over roulette; they have a system in place to accommodate that because usually people who queue a specific dungeon -need- that dungeon for something, such as first time clear. This was mentioned in 2.x patch notes somewhere.

Off-peak times mean nothing. I've been queuing since 9.00 AM and I still can't get into an EX roulette as a damn healer.

If it was a problem of instances, we would get the "Reserving instance" message, like usual.

[Tadacho]

Off-peak times mean nothing. I've been queuing since 9.00 AM and I still can't get into an EX roulette as a damn healer.

If it was a problem of instances, we would get the "Reserving instance" message, like usual.

The DF always displays the reserving instance message. Forming a party and finding an instance are simultaneous processes. The DF will very rarely create a party if there isn't an instance available for them.

It's also a bit silly to think that peak and off-peak times don't affect queues lol



My queue just popped after 4 minutes:

Bearing in mind I'm on an NA server and it is currently off-peak, whereas for you, you're on an EU server and it's probably quite a bit busier right now.





Notice the Eorzea Time (top right).

[Remilia_Nightfall]

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I am not sure what you are trying to prove, tho.

The fact that your roulette works...good for you. However, the thread is full of people for which IT IS NOT working. Might be due to different data centers, I do not know.

[Tadacho]

I am not sure what you are trying to prove, tho.

The fact that your roulette works...good for you. However, the thread is full of people for which IT IS NOT working. Might be due to different data centers, I do not know.

Not trying to prove anything, just to show that people should really consider that a new patch has just dropped and unfortunately queue times can get very long, and they must take into consideration several factors instead of just jumping on the "it's broken" bandwagon. A case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Data centres could very well be a factor, scrolling through the thread I see a lot of the people are from Chaos servers such as Moogle.

However, upon further scrolling, I can also see there's maybe 20 posts of people stating "I've been queuing for X minutes, the queue is broken." Several of the posts here are just stating it's broken because they can't see the numbers, which is just a display error, so we can eliminate those posts. >20 people having a long queue time doesn't exactly represent the player base. Maybe, just maybe, you're having bad luck with queues?! I mean, despite what people say, SE are very quick to be transparent with known issues and how they're looking into them (recently 11th November as an example), and they've stated here the DF isn't broken :3

I think that people are so used to healers and tank having such fast queues they're just having a bit of a shock to the system, and the fact they can't see the numbers in some cases is causing them to believe it's a DF problem.