How to change server?

[Phyxer]

The datacenter you are in - Aether - does have a reputation has being raid-heavy

Yeah, i read the same stuff before choosing a server, then i got this: https://i.imgur.com/g0yspVB.jpg
Almost at the 50 minute mark i finally got a party to do it.

Also, check DC PF and not world PF. DC PF will have raids and stuff.

My party finder looks like this all day: https://i.imgur.com/JZHS9iO.jpg

I tried loggin in different times during these days, but the only thing that change it's the ammount of people promoting their houses.

In gridania and limsa there's always a bunch of ppl but no one is looking for party nor promoting their guild. And i barely see players with the green thing in their names so i guess everyone its already max level and full mounts.
I better start doing some research on what other server i should transfer.

And thanks for the answers!

[MilkieTea]

Yeah, i read the same stuff before choosing a server, then i got this: https://i.imgur.com/g0yspVB.jpg
Almost at the 50 minute mark i finally got a party to do it.




My party finder looks like this all day: https://i.imgur.com/JZHS9iO.jpg

I tried loggin in different times during these days, but the only thing that change it's the ammount of people promoting their houses.

In gridania and limsa there's always a bunch of ppl but no one is looking for party nor promoting their guild. And i barely see players with the green thing in their names so i guess everyone its already max level and full mounts.
I better start doing some research on what other server i should transfer.

And thanks for the answers!

You... need to unlock raids... in order for raids to show on your PF.

PFs only look like that when you have nothing unlocked. Mine looks like this (right now, early morning at 7:31 AM EST)

[Jeeqbit]

Yeah, i read the same stuff before choosing a server, then i got this: https://i.imgur.com/g0yspVB.jpg
Almost at the 50 minute mark i finally got a party to do it.

That is an extreme trial. Extreme is the (optional) high-end content in this game and before doing it you are supposed to understand your class, rotation, have decent gear, materia, food and damage potions.

It's for this reason that the content is not served by any roulette except mentor roulette. You are not supposed to queue for extremes. Instead what people normally do is recruit in Party Finder for them because this makes it more likely that all of the people joining are properly prepared for it. When you queue for it instead, you usually get matched with a bunch of other new players who don't understand it is raid content, don't know their rotations and won't get very far. What does help them to clear some of them is that you are synced to the maximum item level of the expansion (which is usually double the item level of the content) and get stacks of The Echo when you die, which increases stats up to 30%, but sometimes the mechanics are still too much for unprepared new players.

The reason that nobody does Bowl of Embers (Extreme) in party finder is that it's old. It came out in 2013. Most people clear it by using the Undersized Party setting, which allows a level 80 player to solo it for you in a few seconds.

The raid content that gets done most of the time is the newest ones (currently level 80) and old ones are done by niche little communities of people who want to do all of the content and not just the new stuff.

You will struggle to get a party for (Extreme), Minstrel's Ballad, (Savage) or Coil Turns because it is tuned as high-end content and because it's old, not many people do it synced, so you have to find 7 friends who want to do it synced, which can be hard but party finder helps. The alternative is asking a level 80 to solo them all for you using the Undersized Party setting.

[Frizze]

My party finder looks like this all day: https://i.imgur.com/JZHS9iO.jpg

I tried loggin in different times during these days, but the only thing that change it's the ammount of people promoting their houses.

Ok, lets take a look. You have 10 groups under roulette, so thats probly 10 people advertising their run-selling services(although you do SOMETIMES see people trying to pre-form an actual roulette group - usually DPS looking for a healer or tank to give them the quick que). No dungeons, not too uncommon. No guildhests, ditto. You have 4 groups recruiting for trials, one would imagine they are EX mount farm groups - mostly the lvl 80 mounts naturally since those are the newest ones. Next we see 5 groups recruiting for raids. These tend to be a mixed bag of people wanting to unsync older content(whether for glams, for loot, or for unlocks), and people wanting to sync old content for various relic steps or challenges. Moving on, we see 11 groups under the high-end content flag - so the most current raids. Then to move quickly through the rest: no one for PvP(normal), no one for quest battles(i honestly dont even know what that would BE, its always nobody), no one for fates(fate groups arent super uncommon, but most would be doing a minimum of heavensward era fates if not more current), no one for treasure hunts(even if there were, people really only want to do the lvl 80 maps right now), no one for mark hunts(again, the hunt trains would be focused on lvl 80 hunts anyway), no one for ocean fishing(the time of day isnt indicated in the picture, so these might not have been open at the time anyway), no one for deep dungeon(the people who recruit for those typically want to get a group to go 51-200 PotD or 31-100 HoH, and you need certain aetherpool levels to really stand a chance at that anyway - which is to say, you should already know if thats something you can do or not), and finally no one in the category that i remember as "exploratory missions" but i think has been renamed(and again, this would be lvl 80 content you couldnt do). And of course finally, 17 people in the "other" category talking up RP events, advertising crafting services, showing off houses, trying to make friends, and whatever else people decide "other" means. So with 47 total groups, i wouldnt call that PF dead by any stretch of the imagination. It just doesnt have a lot of lower-level groups open. And this is, again, normal. People are more interested in doing the higher level content, and it takes more people to do, so thats where the groups are focused. Of course, theres nothing stopping you from opening a group to do whatever content you have unlocked and need help with. Worth a shot maybe?

[MistakeNot]

Yeah, i read the same stuff before choosing a server, then i got this: https://i.imgur.com/g0yspVB.jpg
Almost at the 50 minute mark i finally got a party to do it.

You got lucky! Obviously a raid-heavy DC.
To a first approximation, nobody queues for Extreme Trials or Savage raids through DF. Those are run either by FC groups, statics, or are recruited for from PF.
On some other datacentre you'd probably have had an even longer queue.