Quote Originally Posted by Remish View Post
It's fundamentally killed any normal FC that isn't a venue, clique of friends, or role playing in some degree.
FCs that aren't one of those things were probably dead anyway or not really talking much. If they are destroyed due to visiting other worlds for raids, that is again solved if they prevent the public version of the High-End tab working on other data centers.

I have to constantly travel to do any content at all including maps, hunts, ect.
Maps aren't even DC-restricted. They are world restricted, so this would have been an issue since World Visiting if it was the reason people were traveling away, but it's not. So nobody even bothers trying to go elsewhere for them, not intentionally anyway.

It's always been difficult to recruit in PF for maps sometimes (other times it's easy). Depends on the time.

It's very common for maps to be done by FCs or friends anyway, and older ones can often be done without a full party. I've duo'd both the Endwalker ones multiple times.

Trying to find hunt linkshells and keep track of trains is stressful because of how conductors handle it.
It's not really stressful. Just wait for information about a hunt train. If you are in a dungeon when you get the information, then that's fine, you can just catch a different train instead. They happen across 8 different worlds (unless you're on Dynamis or Materia), and you can even DC travel for them if you want.

DC travel hasn't prevented trains being run on other data centers; in fact, they couldn't be busier.

RP has completely overtaken PF for the most part.
What does that have to do with DC travel? Crystal was always full of RP in the Other tab. It is on other data centers as well. I just don't look at the Other tab much.

In addition, you can't keep people in an FC anymore because they are always off server anyway.
Off server is fine because you can use FC chat across worlds. It is only off data center that is the problem. And the most likely reason they would be off data center all the time is either to raid (which blocking the public High-End category would solve as previously mentioned), or because they are from Dynamis.

PvP queue times have taken a bit of a hit as well as far more premades in the likes of Frontlines.
People say that Primal is the PvP data center. I have no trouble with it on Aether at all. But that's fine, they could block PvP queues while visiting other data centers as well.

I can never tell what DC or server is best for stuff like Eureka, Bozja, Fate grinding, Deep Dungeon pairings, ect.
  • Eureka, probably any except Dynamis.
  • Bozja, probably any except Dynamis as well.
  • FATE Grinding, none, because you rarely see PFs for it anywhere after the expansion has been out for a bit. The people who grind them usually don't make PFs and just solo them, so you have to visit different worlds to see if one has a rare PF up for them, or just go to the areas and see if someone is completing all the FATEs and join them.
  • Deep dungeons probably none as well, because I feel that POTD has got old, HoH has always been pretty abandoned and EO got abandoned almost immediately with queues being poor even when it released which led to me soloing 1-30 of EO instead.