Can't enter Palace of Dead with penalty?

[Jetstream_Fox]

Because your queue prompt is what the penalty effects, which PotD still prompts despite you not going through the DF. Basically, the penalty is for anything you have to queue into.

Here's how that logic doesn't work, everything in this game outside of fates and open world content is accessible through a queue. However, with a penalty, a player can still queue for a Chocobo race. This is queued instanced content as you can be matched with other players or end up against AI. There is really no excuse as to why a solo run of PotD should be impacted by content that requires 3-23 other players when it was built completely outside the fundamentals of DF based content.