Raid finder vs duty finder

[FunkYeahDragons]

Outdated trials like Sephirot and Thordan are probably fine in DF at this point. Sophia no. Nidhogg maybe.

The fight phases I feel are a necessity for raid finder in some fights. Nidhogg Ex for example. I started raiding mid-August and none of the PUG groups I tried could figure out Fang and Claw even with explanations, videos, and a shotcaller in voice chat in the time we had.

That would be miserable in DF and it's why we have fight phases. It's great if people want to teach, but sometimes that's not how you want to spend your night. People who've cleared and want to help can always join learning parties via PF like I do with Sophia EX, or just queue for first phase.

[enthauptet]

Honestly, a lot of people I meet in game don't know about raid finder. There should be a button on duty finder to access raid finder.

[albertopin]

Really i think this should be adressed quickly. im not wrong when i say that the total number of runs have dropped significantly these days.

Its affecting the QoL of the entire data center.
Hope they realize it soon and patch it.

[BelraugFire]

If Sophia is the new ex primal and everyone is doing it, then im missing something cause i spent the entire day today trying to run Sophia in the raid finder and guess what, it was a 30+ minute wait every time. This is horrible. I have been telling you that raid finder is a terrible system, but all i get is its because Sophia is out and everyone is running it, well its week 2 and i cant even get a run in raid finder for Sophia or even any of the other high end EX primals for that matter. SE better fix this atrocious mistake fast cause im starting to think about ending my subscription. I hope they fixed the monumental mistake with this maintence they should be doing today.

[Reithomeige]

I do see the game from a different point of view. I will admit this during the day in EU on a work-week it seems that the RF has longer queue times. Especially at peek when raids are running.
And comes late evenings like 11pm (GMT) onward the queue times are less -queued up within 8min.

I personally see the RF for Sophie fits my needs, I needed to farm my weapon fast, and within a day I got that done. I can't talk for the other primals, but on the PF there are loads of bird farmers for trials in HW.

[albertopin]

Yeah RF works best with newer content but its pointless to have older raids in it.
It splits a medium size base of players on fragments of options or restrictions.

Ive put a ticket on this, i dont want to wait until 3.5 to see seph and nidh ex on df.
Hope SE hear my pleads. As an active subscriber.

[Taruru306]

i spend 3 days more than 15 hrs with out 1 single primal fight, yes im new because i was quitting since 3.1 , SE are you kidding me? who ever introducing this type of garbage system should get fire immediately .

[OoglieBooglie]

I've had relatively quick queues with sophia. I just tested this out on sophia, at 10 in the morning on a sunday (certainly not primetime). I had a roughly 5-10 minute queue as a black mage with duty completed selected.

[Neophyte]

If Sophia is the new ex primal and everyone is doing it, then im missing something cause i spent the entire day today trying to run Sophia in the raid finder and guess what, it was a 30+ minute wait every time. This is horrible. I have been telling you that raid finder is a terrible system, but all i get is its because Sophia is out and everyone is running it, well its week 2 and i cant even get a run inraid finder for Sophia or even any of the other high end EX primals for that matter. SE better fix this atrocious mistake fast cause im starting to think about ending my subscription. I hope they fixed the monumental mistake with this maintence they should be doing today.

Before raid finder it would have taken 3 months for Sophia Ex to be available in DF. Before Raid Finder there was no less-than-8-ppl queuing for any current ex or savage content.
Also on EU datacenters it's quite more common to use PF still. And it's an MMORPG which makes most things easier when done with friends/acquaintances. Queing as a single role makes your que times dependant on ammount and role composition of every other random queuing player.

The only things which got farmed in DF quite frequently were Ravana&Bismark (after being overgeared by 40-100 ilvls; soonest 3+ months after being released), maybe Thordan (earliest again 3+ months after release).
Sephiroth and Niddhog (even 3 months after release) were pretty uncommon and I heavily doubt that raid finder doubled the time towards duty finder.

[Ash_]

Que times for sophia ex on JP servers average 5 mins or less with duty completed selected. Around 7 mins for incomplete. And this is during the daytime of a weekday when people should be at work.

There are a lot of people using RF over here and RF has been great; Sophia is the first HW ex primal I've done, since forming a group with other english players is incredibly difficult thanks to our low numbers and different availability's, being spread out across multiple servers, and there's no chance of you getting into a JP party finder group without speaking the language. And yes, of course I play on a JP data centre being from Aus.