Stuck on Satasha?

[Victus-Mors]

Right now when I decide to level my Marauder past 16 (where he is currently) I really want to do a boatload of dungeons up through 20. I imagine queuing as a tank would mean quick pops and I could chain together a few runs. If I decide to level a caster class I'll probably lean towards a healer for the same reason. I would like quickly assembled groups and wouldn't mind doing many many dungeons to level them up. FATEs are okay but would like to break the monotony.

[Niwashi]

A good Free Company can be a huge help here. Or if they're not available and you're going to go with the Duty Finder alone, find something else to do while you wait.

As Dekinosai mentioned, you can do some crafting. Or there are other possibilities as well. I finished off several entries in my hunting log while waiting for Sastasha and joined the Conjurer's guild and started leveling that class while waiting for Tam Tara (as an archer). Just be sure that whatever you're filling the time with is something that you can quickly break off from (and if necessary quickly change back to your main class) once the Duty Finder notification pops up saying a group is available. It doesn't give you a lot of time in which to acknowledge that notification and port to the dungeon.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

SE is going to implement some things to try to get the tanks and healers to go back and rerun things again. I believe there are 2 programs they are working on.

"MVP" System
Greetings, everyone!
I'd like to give a brief official overview of the "MVP" system that was announced by Yoshida during TGS, as there is a lot of interest in how this will encourage players to be positive and helpful when using the Duty Finder.
This system is for groups that get matched in the Duty Finder and cannot be used when you pre-make parties to enter dungeons and other content. Once you clear the content, you'll be able to vote for a player you feel was helpful, positive, and friendly.
Accumulating these points will allow you to buy companion armor, new mounts, and other exclusive items.
This system is scheduled to be implemented in patch 2.1, and once further details have been finalized we will be sure to share them with you!

There is also some random daily dungeon thingie but I forgot where I read about it.

[Niwashi]

Like you, I have had to wait, and wait and wait to get into Satasha. I spent three consecutive mornings waiting to get into Satasha. I never got into a a group, even after waiting 4-hours each morning. Since I was playing during the daytime I expected to have to wait - but this is rediculous.

Whoa, that is bad. I was averaging around 45 minutes as an archer (well, anywhere from half an hour to an hour). Seems pretty long compared to the wait on my gladiator (which ranged from instant to five minutes or so), but nowhere near what you were seeing. Guess I'm glad my gaming schedule tends to match up with typical North American busy hours if it can make that much difference.

[CalebTracker]

Even those early dungeons have some mechanics that you'll want to check whether everyone knows. (In Sastasha, for instance, make sure everyone in the group knows about the bubbling water in the final boss fight.).

Except for Copperbell Mines where you somehow need to get "don't kill the bombs!" across to the DPS, the three low level dungeons are perfectly doable without any communication. The bubbling water adds can be tanked, and the other bosses are mostly a kill adds/dps race. So it really might be best to just set all languages as viable (and read up on the Ichor in Copperbell) to decrease your long waiting time.

Not a fan of those mandatory dungeons myself either. Not because of the queues, which seem to be around 3mins(ish) for tanks, but because I get a lot of lag due to crappy internet connection. But I guess that's a bigger pain for the healer than for me heh.

[Simaril]

You are basically trying to match 100 DPS to 1 Tank and 1 Healer. Thank goodness I have a tank friend, we que into dungeons within seconds every time.

Maybe these quests are SEs way of getting players to play tank/healer, or get used to long Ques

[MercuryAquarius]

Luckily in my server there have been people waiting around the dungeon areas. We had to run around to try to find a healer and a tank earlier today, but as an Arcanist I ended up serving as the primary healer. It worked out ok. I have seen people "shouting" in the towns and villages near the dungeons which also appears to work, and its better than seeing the Gil spammers!

[Khalette]

I just got in after waiting 28 minutes in que as a tank. Once I zoned in, there was only 1 DPS in there with 12 minutes left on the clock. No one entered the dungeon in those 12 minutes. Seriously, these are becoming obsolete because people can grind fates for two hours and get to 25. This is a pretty horrible design for new players that are working on their main story. How disheartening.

[vp_cmc]

Hey, pick up crafting while you are waiting in queue! You can switch classes as much as you want while waiting in queue. As long as you queued with the class you want to run it with, you can play anything else while waiting. So if you queued as a therm switched to a weaver. You can level your weaving while your therm is in queue. Once it pops you simply switch back to a therm and be on your merry way of killing.

This is not very good advice actually. I several times failed to commit to duty finder because I was trying to finish craft, an 47 sec is not enough to finish craft and change class.

I prefer gather resources when waiting for DF.

[KittenJitsu]

This is not very good advice actually. I several times failed to commit to duty finder because I was trying to finish craft, an 47 sec is not enough to finish craft and change class.

I prefer gather resources when waiting for DF.

What are you talking about? How are you unable to finish a craft and switch class? We can preset our class and switch between them in a second. I haven't experienced a craft that lasts longer than 20 seconds and you are given a minute before entering.