In comparison, how early was HW's first solo duty?

[Beatrice]

20+ times? You've got the devil's own luck, milady

Not as lucky as some! Several FC members got in before me and I was pretty jealous! Thought I was gonna be behind the Raubahn Wall for the whole weekend.

I wasn't around for the Heavensward launch, but for ARR I got TOTALLY locked out of the game for the entire early access. I was almost expecting the same thing to happen. :x

[Loxguard]

Not as lucky as some! Several FC members got in before me and I was pretty jealous! Thought I was gonna be behind the Raubahn Wall for the whole weekend.

I wasn't around for the Heavensward launch, but for ARR I got TOTALLY locked out of the game for the entire early access. I was almost expecting the same thing to happen. :x

HW EA was beautiful, don't believe the people who say "HW was just as bad!". SB EA on NA datacenters is a perversion of an abomination.

[Beatrice]

HW EA was beautiful, don't believe the people who say "HW was just as bad!". SB EA on NA datacenters is a perversion of an abomination.

Yeah, that's what I heard. Unfortunately, I was on an extended hiatus from the game when HW launched. The SB launch is very rocky but man, the ARR launch was super craptastic. When I heard about the Susano lock outs, it really reminded me of ARR!

[Zojha]

Difference:
Players had the option to do first the MSQ in Western Coerthas (with Redwald against Heretics) and then in the Abalathic Cloud of Sea (with Emmanellain against Vanu Vanu) or the other way.

And both ways ended at a solo instance at the same time.
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/w...cenario_Quests

I kiiinda doubt that had much impact.

[Felis]

And both ways ended at a solo instance at the same time.
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/w...cenario_Quests

I kiiinda doubt that had much impact.

It divided the people, who did the MSQ, by around 50% for each instance

[Zojha]

It divided the people, who did the MSQ, by around 50% for each instance

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the instance server shared anyway, hence why SE is worried about duty finder crashing, people are getting stuck even at non-Raubahn solo instances and even low pop servers have issues?

[Youkulm]

I had zero issues with this in HW despite the old wonky servers. I was able to progress with ease through the first instance.

[Theodric]

3.0 had issues - though for me they were minimal and I didn't see as many players locked out of the MSQ's as I do with 4.0.

[Dualblade]

3.0 once you were actually on the server tended not to be so bad. Actually getting on was the problem atleast in my exp. Multiple times got to the end of the long queue only to 90k until about halfway through the second day. But it was smooth sailing from there.

Meanwhile SB I can actually log on even with the long(er it seems) queue. But not being able to do the MSQ is for sure very frustrating.

[Rydia]

the main reason people were able to do hw without the issues of solo dungeons was because the main city was accessible from the start. It didn't get gated off like this main city. Also 3 jobs to cause people to go level... starting at 30 not 50. We had more new stuff to do instead of hey go do the msq or level up 10 levels before you are already at the same level as your old job.