The question for Monday: Why do you need your clear asap?

[Souljacker]

Then dispel this expectation. Make it clear in the party finder that you're as green as green gets. You will STILL get folks wiling to join.

Yes, you will. And you will still get that one jerkface who joined to "teach other players" and either ragequits after leaving you with several "well-intentioned" insults, or is just abusive throughout the whole process and you end up disbanding anyway. I know you are trying to be helpful but I've been doing this mmo thing for a long time, and I've never see players as horrible and abusive to other players as in this game. Our server is particularly harsh, as is Balmung. Places like Excalibur seem to be nicer. I hear the entire JP community is laid back.

NA players are some of the meanest, most elitist, most obnoxious players in the game and after years of trying, I'm at the point where it's not even worth my time. I'll wait until it makes it into duty finder and clear it there with strangers from other servers. There's no way I'm putting up a PF on Gilgamesh.

I've been here since 1.0 and it seems my experience has obviously been very different than yours.

You are on Excalibur. That server seems to be the most decent of the lot. Even when hunts first landed there were few to 0 complaints coming from people on that server. Balmung on the other hand...

You just got lucky and picked the right server. So yes, your experience has probably differed DRASTICALLY from others.