Everything is dead?

[roses_of_may]

You can still be in ARR at level 57 if you buy the complete edition.

My FC pal had to get me to go to SB locations to get him SAM gear as he was still doing HW content, he'd just levelled up a lot.

I've absolutely no idea where I am. Did buy the complete edition, though. And the last MSQ thing I did was kill a snake (leviathan?) in the water on a kind of boat/ferry thing.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say its because youre on a japanese datacenter without ticking all your language options/ playing when everyone in Japan is asleep/at work

You could test your theory by queuing up for Rhitalyn yourself and see. Server and Day of the Week probably plays a role but timezones and languages had nothing to do with it I'm pretty sure.

[Blokeymon]

Leviathan is still ARR content so yeah, you're still doing ARR stuff.

Also, a tip for queuing...

In the Duty Finder settings there is a little cog icon, top left. If you select ALL languages, you will be added to queues with people who speak any language, not just your own chosen one. I've found this can be the difference between a 10 minute wait and a 70 minute wait.

Also, "queue for duties in progress" needs to be checked, as if a duty you're queueing for is in progress and someone drops out, and you can fill the spot, it will throw you in.

[ReiMakoto]

I've absolutely no idea where I am. Did buy the complete edition, though. And the last MSQ thing I did was kill a snake (leviathan?) in the water on a kind of boat/ferry thing.




You could test your theory by queuing up for Rhitalyn yourself and see. Server and Day of the Week probably plays a role but timezones and languages had nothing to do with it I'm pretty sure.

Im on an EU datacenter and play in EU times with all languages ticked so I can get a queue for that in like less than a min. It does make a difference, timezones make a difference because if youre on a japanese data center you will only match with people on that datacenter, aka mostly japanese people, and if you don't have all languages ticked, youll only match with japanese people who've marked that they speak english.

[roses_of_may]

Sorry, what I mean to say is that I am absolutely 100% certain that timezones and language had nothing to do with it. Because all language boxes were ticked and I've queued both during on and off peak-hours. And the raids were during the weekend no less. that being said server/data centers may be relevant but that's out of my hands.

[HyoMinPark]

You can still be in ARR at level 57 if you buy the complete edition.

My FC pal had to get me to go to SB locations to get him SAM gear as he was still doing HW content, he'd just levelled up a lot.

I was basing my assumption off of the OP saying they’ve literally bum-rushed the story. It’s a logical assumption to assume that they were likely in HW if they were skipping through everything and were level 57.

You are right that normal Dungeon Queues are fast. Almost instant if you play as healer like me. But for the 8 man raids I waited 600+ minutes total for the first one ( in 3 different sittings ) with no luck until a high level carried me like I said previously. The two others I waited about 160 minutes and 200 minutes respectively before a high level felt sorry for me and carried me again both times. Different times, different players carrying.

The raids were: Rhitalyn, Castrum and Prateorium. Basically killing the 3 main baddies and ultima weapon and then that posessed wizard guy pretty much. And I'm pretty sure they were required to progress through the MSQ.

For this, you’d have to be queuing at odd times. I’m on an NA server, and the longest I had to wait for any of these when doing them on my alt was 40-ish minutes when queuing at normal hours. No where near 600. Cape Westwind (Rhitalyn) is present in Trial Roulette, so the Roulette will funnel players queuing for it into your queue. Castrum and Praetorium are part of both Mentor Roulette and MSQ Roulette—people run the latter purely for the insane amount of experience it gives, and I haven’t had to wait longer than 30 minutes for my MSQ Roulette to pop on Aether when I queue during normal hours (i.e., not super late at night or super early in the morning).

These also aren’t classified as “raids” in FFXIV’s terminology: Cape Westwind is a Trial, and Castrum and Praetorium are considered dungeons. The first “raid” you’ll see in ARR is Coil—but it’s not required for MSQ. No content labeled as a raid in this game is mandatory for MSQ progression—24-man raids, 8-man normal mode raids, or 8-man Savage/Ultimate raids.

RP stuff and goofing off sounds fun but that's not close to being possible. Every Duty Finder group is a wham bam thank you mam kind of run there's no skill involved or anything that might pique an interest in anyone and there's no relationships to be formed and the world is dead everywhere.

The people I RP with or goof off with are my friends. Not random individuals from Duty Finder. This is why I suggested you join an Free Company—where you will have the opportunity to make these sorts of connections. That said, I have made friends on other platforms, such as this very forum. My best friend and I actually met on here, and we do just about everything together.

Seems to me there's no meaningful interactions you can have with any other player whatsoever except for the odd high level feeling sorry for your low level ass begging on the streets.

If you don’t attempt to forge these connections and start these interactions with people, then of course they don’t happen. These things don’t just fall into your lap. Like I said, join an FC to attempt to forge these friendships.

You could test your theory by queuing up for Rhitalyn yourself and see. Server and Day of the Week probably plays a role but timezones and languages had nothing to do with it I'm pretty sure.

Your server is listed as a JP server (now that you’ve changed your active character). If you live in an NA or an EU timezone, timezone absolutely plays a factor on how active the JP queues will be—just as it would if you were JP playing on an NA or EU server. Same with languages. You’d best have JP ticked if you’re on a JP server, because most players on the JP servers queue under JP only.

As I said above, I do MSQ Roulette (so, queuing basically for Castrum and Praetorium) a couple times each week for the Roulette EXP. Longest wait I’ve had is 40 minutes.

Sorry, what I mean to say is that I am absolutely 100% certain that timezones and language had nothing to do with it. Because all language boxes were ticked and I've queued both during on and off peak-hours. And the raids were during the weekend no less. that being said server/data centers may be relevant but that's out of my hands.

Not really. You can pay to transfer to a server within your timezone—it’s $18 USD, unless you’re going from a Congested world to a Preferred world, in which it’s free.

[Siete]

"None of the classes are unique or has any individual impact in any meaningful way."
-Every class plays completely different from one another and they all have their unique style and gimmick.

"The MSQ is uninteresting"
-Yeah it's quite slow at the beggining but

"and after the first 20 hours I'm just trying to get it done as fast as possible skipping as much cut-scenes and text as possible hoping and waiting for something interesting to happen"
-This just makes it way worse, personally when you get by Titan it's good enough to start not skipping what you used to skip.
Also, class quests storylines are great.

"Every skill/spell and mob is way too visually intricate, big and flashy. Nothing is distinguishable in fights. Everything is just a big messy splash of meaningless colors. Including all the player characters skills spells and animations. Everyone is just flipping about dancing around taking up visual real-estate and pixels for no meaningful purpose."
-After playing a certain game for so long, I'm happy to see skills look as good as they do in here. Every attack looks different from each other and feels good.

"It's way, way, WAY too visual and detailed. Fine do a flip when you use a long cooldown that has a big impact but jesus when every single little thing you do and spam is like the second coming of christ you start losing your religion real quick."
-No thanks, I rather feel like the skills I use mean something.

"There's no kiting in this game. If you kite a mob 10 yards out of it's "in range for spell" zone it just turns back and gets to full hp"
-No point in kiting, though, at least not that much? I can't find a reason to "kite" world monsters for that long.

"There's no meaningful CC or strategy to deal with mobs at all. Like interrupting a heal, delaying patrols, CC'ing adds etc"
-This is completely fake, I do it all the time, helps a lot in dungeons with healings and keeps tanks alive.

" The healers root/bind spell -- what should be a powerful spell is utterly laughable and meaningless."
It's a great skill if you know when to use it.

"Nothing in the combat system calls out for clutch plays or reactions or decisions. It's just a numbers game. "
-Fake, downtime in which you're pressing 1,2,3 is really low and it's always about reaction/decisions in all forms of instanced content.

"By the way is every single mob melee? No ranged mobs whatsoever?"
-There are many ranged monsters, heck there are many in Thousand Maws of Totorak, did you get that far in the game?

"Every place you go to is dead. The only other people you see are in Duty Finder or people mostly AFK:ing in cities."
-Depends on the place, usually ARR zones have people moving around but it does get emptier in Heavensward content, FATE usually still have people around.

"There's no general chat to communicate with others."
-Press Enter.

"And finding groups to do the MSQ requires 8 man raids is next to impossible. The Duty Finder Queue is of no help for these things as you will sit 400+ minutes without finding a group. Every now and again a DPS or two will queue with you ( you can see it on the UI ) but they leave after ~30 min of getting tired of it."
-My highest queue time in the last 5 months was 27 minutes as a DPS for The Praetorium. How did you ever get 400 minutes? It's impossible.

"The only way I was able to progress here was spending about 200 minutes in a city/location where people AFK/gather/loiter and posting in chat ( every 5 minutes ) that I was looking for a group for these MSG raids. After about 200 minutes some high lvl would stop by, feel sorry for me and ask what was going on and basically invite me to a group and clear the dungeon for me dragging my sorry pathetic ass with them."
-Never had to take these measures, the game is thriving with players for instanced content.

" Plus the GCD is way too long and you get hit even if you walked out of the red area 1 second ago because the server tick timer is so goddamn slow so everything feels extra sluggish and rubber-bandish."
-All classes have non GCD skills to use, in the end you're left around with a real GCD of 1 second, maybe less for some classes. Also, I'm playing with 300ms and I don't get any rubberbanding. Check your connection?

" The fact that you can take on any job is great if only the jobs were unique or the combat interesting which they are not."
-Which game has "Interesting combat" according to you? If FFXIV is uninteresting to you combat wise I feel sorry for the rest of the MMORPGs as FFXIV is the best in the market right now.

"Like oh maybe this quest has you kill this hard mob out in this area and might require maybe 2 players to do or 1 player to do it very carefully using your abilities and kiting and preparing carefully. None of those kinds of things are anywhere close to being in the realm of possibilities in this game."
-There is such content, perhaps you skipped it? Like you seem to have skipped many functionalities and aspects of the game?

"But there's like 100k people playing this game?"
-There's more than that, it's the MMORPG in the market with the most active players.

"Is this game just not for me? Because to me it looks like this just not the game for me. "
-Can't tell, you quoted many aspects of the game which aren't real for FFXIV. You're either playing a different game and posting on the wrong forums or... Who knows?

[roses_of_may]

For this, you’d have to be queuing at odd times. I’m on an NA server, and the longest I had to wait for any of these when doing them on my alt was 40-ish minutes when queuing at normal hours. No where near 600. Cape Westwind (Rhitalyn) is present in Trial Roulette, so the Roulette will funnel players queuing for it into your queue. Castrum and Praetorium are part of both Mentor Roulette and MSQ Roulette—people run the latter purely for the insane amount of experience it gives, and I haven’t had to wait longer than 30 minutes for my MSQ Roulette to pop on Aether when I queue during normal hours (i.e., not super late at night or super early in the morning).

Last weekend, J and E, peak hours, 200+ min queues three times for Rhitalyn. 200+ and 160+ for the two others. Never resolved. That is all.

If you don’t attempt to forge these connections and start these interactions with people, then of course they don’t happen. These things don’t just fall into your lap. Like I said, join an FC to attempt to forge these friendships.

This game offers no such opportunities whatsoever.

Your server is listed as a JP server (now that you’ve changed your active character). If you live in an NA or an EU timezone, timezone absolutely plays a factor on how active the JP queues will be—just as it would if you were JP playing on an NA or EU server. Same with languages. You’d best have JP ticked if you’re on a JP server, because most players on the JP servers queue under JP only.

As I said above, I do MSQ Roulette (so, queuing basically for Castrum and Praetorium) a couple times each week for the Roulette EXP. Longest wait I’ve had is 40 minutes.

Image a scenario where the timezone would not be an issue in this case.

Not really. You can pay to transfer to a server within your timezone—it’s $18 USD, unless you’re going from a Congested world to a Preferred world, in which it’s free.

Are you sure you're posting in the right game's forums?
Nothing you said matches what I find in game.

https://i.imgur.com/oGIgWTq.jpg


Anyway these have been very helpful, thank you. I will get a story recap from a youtube video and quit the game. Not trying to play any small violin here just letting you know. Have fun~

[Siete]

Last weekend, J and E, peak hours, 200+ min queues three times for Rhitalyn. 200+ and 160+ for the two others. Never resolved. That is all.




This game offers no such opportunities whatsoever.




Image a scenario where the timezone would not be an issue in this case.







https://i.imgur.com/oGIgWTq.jpg


Anyway these have been very helpful, thank you. I will get a story recap from a youtube video and quit the game. Not trying to play any small violin here just letting you know. Have fun~

Excuse me, are you, perhaps by any chance, a World of Warcraft refugee?

[Hasrat]

Maybe the first question you need to answer is what do you want to get out of the game? You seem to very much not be here for story. If you're only really interested in running instanced content with other players, you may just be better off biting the bullet and buying a story and job boost. You'll find higher concentrations of players in the open world. You'll be able to run dungeons and trials and raids that might be more engaging, more current and therefore active content. Probably also buy yourself a transfer to a more appropriate data center. Gonna be hard to get much meaningful player interaction with a language barrier, to say nothing of time differences.

Basically, if you're rushing yourself through MSQ, have you stopped to ask why?

[HyoMinPark]

Last weekend, J and E, peak hours, 200+ min queues three times for Rhitalyn. 200+ and 160+ for the two others. Never resolved. That is all.

Peak hours for you, or peak hours for JP? Because JP’s peak hours will be different than NA/EU timezones.

This game offers no such opportunities whatsoever.

I see people shouting FC recruitments in all major city hubs every day on my server. There are FCs that post recruitment ads on this very forum, as well as the FFXIV subreddit. You’re going to have a harder time—being on a JP server finding an English FC—but they do exist. So I respectfully disagree.

Image a scenario where the timezone would not be an issue in this case.

Time zone is an issue if you’re playing during NA peak hours on a JP server—in Japan, that’s usually when people are working or in school. As of this post, it’s currently approaching NA prime time. In Japan, it’s 9:43am. People are either at work or in school right now, so less will be online queuing for things. NA and EU have similar slow downs—queues are slower at 3am EST compared to 7pm EST, for example. Time zones matter, even if you would rather them not.

Anyway these have been very helpful, thank you. I will get a story recap from a youtube video and quit the game. Not trying to play any small violin here just letting you know. Have fun~

Thank you, I have fun in this game every day.