Need to address the Eureka in the room.

[Kalise]

But people are there. You never need to find other people to do it. Unless you're agoraphobic, there's literrally no reason to not join parties in Eureka.

Except when there aren't. Or people don't care about grouping for anything but FATE Trains because they're max level for the zone and the only thing they need to do is farm FATEs for crystals?

Unless you're telling me that when I go into Eureka at 4am and there's literally no-one else in the social tab (Just like in Limsa Lominsa at times) there's actually a ton of people there just waiting to invite me to a party.

Depends on what counts as "efficient" for you. Doing your CL and then logout till the next week is not very efficient if you're afraid of falling behind the pack.

I don't give a damn about "Falling behind the pack"

That's why I give a damn about being able to solo stuff for progress when I have the feeling to do so.

Efficient for me is time spent not doing horrible content. To which, I find leveling via just logging in once per week to do CL and otherwise using FATE Trains to gain experience as a side effect of using the to farm for Crystals the most efficient.

Certainly more efficient than the amount of time I've spent sat around asking in Shout for parties when no-one cared about doing the content that I was looking for a party to do (Experience grinding, Challenge Logs, FATE Trains. I've had times where I've searched for an hour for a party for any of these to no avail)

First, you don't need a group.

No, but it's much, much faster with one than without. Especially if you're unlucky with the weather and you only get crappy sprites that are at awkward levels.

Second, in every instance I've joined, there was always enough people to cover every bracket of levels I needed.

Well, it's nice to be lucky enough to encounter that.

I on the other hand, frequently find many players that don't care about various level ranges. So I or other people search for parties at their level range for considerable amounts of time.

You'll just level much slower, thus being excluded from the high crystal rewards for high lvl FATEs...and that's without counting the time you will try to follow the train in areas where mobs will just destroy you and you'll have to wait for a raise, likely missing the FATE entirely.

I haven't encountered a major issue so far as far as crystal gains go. Also, I've never missed a FATE because I died following a train.

Heck, I'm usually the one who goes and raises people who die following the FATE Train and help them get to it in time to get contribution.

if you hate fates relic in eureka will suck, but for me these fates were fairly entertaining, with varied bosses and mechanics, they were generally rewarding, and i enjoyed always having my full kit, and getting to play my main job.

Bingo.

I've yet to participate in a FATE in Eureka that didn't suck.

Also, I hate the fact that being a Tank main makes me feel extra worthless because unless I'm in a party with a decent healer I can't do crap except DPS. I can't heal, I can't raise. I can merely DPS, but less good than an actual DPS class.

At best, if I'm in a party with a healer, I can pick up the adds that people invariably pull and tank them. But then I'm just tanking normal enemies, which also isn't particularly exciting gameplay.

by pyros, soloing becomes fully viable by using logograms.

"Things become better... Eventually... When you use these items people keep complaining about being too RNG and/or annoying to farm"

Gee, I can't wait. /s

oh yeah grouping in eureka is way easier than grouping via DF, unless you are a tank.

I beg to differ.

As a Tank/Healer I click a button I get an instant group in DF.
As DPS, I click a button, I way 5-10 minutes and get a group in DF.

In Eureka, it varies from instant groups, to never getting a group.

Doesn't seem "Way easier" to me. Seems at best, on par and at worst, way more difficult. Especially since part of Eureka's grouping also involves hoping that of the 144 potential people in the instance, that some of them want to actually do the same content that you're wanting to do.

I mean, if you're a DPS, perhaps it's better. But as I'm a Tank main and Healer secondary... Well, at times I get annoyed when I have to wait 5 whole seconds for a DF queue to pop...