DC Travel and its decimation of non-Aether NA PF

[Toutatis]

The only thing I can think of would feel harsh to players and generate very strong pushback - debuff Traveler attributes.

Friends trying to play with actual friends probably wouldn't mind that the traveling friend has had their attributes debuffed by 2-3% (or whatever amount) - they just want to play with their friend. But how many would tolerate it in PF filled with random players, with potentially multiple (or even all of them) having the debuff?

That wouldn’t work for endgame content. May be a loot roll penalty that would offer reduced chances would encourage people to do PFs on their own DC without affecting individual performance. It wouldn’t really affect cross DC statics as they can plan ahead as to who gets what.

Still the only real solution now would be to make PF and DF open to an entire region.

[littlehobbit13]

That wouldn’t work for endgame content. May be a loot roll penalty that would offer reduced chances would encourage people to do PFs on their own DC without affecting individual performance. It wouldn’t really affect cross DC statics as they can plan ahead as to who gets what.

Still the only real solution now would be to make PF and DF open to an entire region.

I was actually thinking about this too, as a potential solution, giving higher rolls to people on their home DCs. It doesn't straight up punish you for gameplay or give players a reason to be intolerant of traveling players, but it still incentives individual players to play on their home DC.

I On the Dynamis data center, it really is THAT bad. It's devastating and game breaking. Getting 10+ minute waits as healer or tank doesn't matter for things like expert roulette. Alliance raids are most often 30+ minutes if they even open at all. Crystaline Conflict doesn't happen.

New players and alts should not have to make party finder groups begging someone to join either synced or unsynced for MSQ leveling dungeons.

Its bad. Really bad.

Co-signed. My alt is on Seraph. Tank main, I waited 90 minutes to get the Innocence trial done through queue. (I didn't mean to wait that long, I just genuinely forgot I was queued up at some point.) It really is that bad on Dynamis. Our FC activity basically dissolved away because everyone was constantly off-world trying to get content done, so there goes the social aspect of an MMO as well. They really shouldn't have let loose with DC travel before giving Dynamis worlds a chance to set up and find some stability.

[Jojoya]

Co-signed. My alt is on Seraph. Tank main, I waited 90 minutes to get the Innocence trial done through queue. (I didn't mean to wait that long, I just genuinely forgot I was queued up at some point.) It really is that bad on Dynamis. Our FC activity basically dissolved away because everyone was constantly off-world trying to get content done, so there goes the social aspect of an MMO as well. They really shouldn't have let loose with DC travel before giving Dynamis worlds a chance to set up and find some stability.

Give PF on Dynamis a try. It might surprise you.

I've been taking members of my Marilith FC through the MSQ trials using PF. So far the longest we've had to wait to fill a party is 10 minutes. I add "First time bonus - needed for MSQ" in the description. There are players who want to help and PF makes it easier to connect with those players rather than grabbing pot luck from Duty Finder matchmaking.