Stuck on Satasha?

[jayshirley]

Am I missing something? The only way to advance the main story at lv 15 is to complete the Satasha instance. But 3 nights in a row I have entered the duty finder and sat and waited 30 minutes each time and not a single other person joined the queue. So I am just stuck and can't advance. Is this intended by SE? A problem with the Duty Finder? Impossibility of getting a group if you are DPS? Or just bad luck?

[Oni-Sovalis]

Try asking for a party in chat while in the area, or join a good FC.

[Vanroe]

If you are dps, you are gonna have to wait a while, probably more than 30 mins, it has to do with the population of tanks and healers doing the dungeon.

Add to that the lack of incentive to do these dungeons a second time around leveling another class.

Is it intended for you to do the dungeon? yes, is it intended to wait >30 mins? no, thats just the nature of MMOs, always a million dps, fewer healer, and still fewer tanks.

Other than just waiting it out, you can always try chat, joining a FC (I leveled a pally pretty much solely to help my FC)

While you are waiting you can always grind fates, or leveling up another class/crafter/gatherer, but remember not to join a fate group, since it will kick you out of your queue.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

Ask in the forums under your server for peeps who want to do Satasha with your class/job. I am not sure if you are in a Free Company or Link Shell but also ask there or ask to join a LS or FC on forums. There are LS's posting up looking for members all the time.

[Sinaloa]

Never took longer than 113 min for me as DD or 1.5 min as healer. Unless I had a DD with me - took 5 mins as healer then. So lfm for a healer or tank in the open world and que.

[HEC]

Also - select all the languages in the Duty Finder instead of leaving just the default one there - this will speed up matching as well.

[Michelasso]

Also - select all the languages in the Duty Finder instead of leaving just the default one there - this will speed up matching as well.

Naaahh!! I never thought of it! Great tip, thanks.

BTW I discovered yesterday that the dungeons are cross-worlds. Is this after patch? I never bothered to check before.

[Bixby]

Naaahh!! I never thought of it! Great tip, thanks.

BTW I discovered yesterday that the dungeons are cross-worlds. Is this after patch? I never bothered to check before.

Duty Finder has always been cross-server. It's actually gotten less cross-server since launch; they've divided servers into groups for the DF, so you won't be grouped with people from every server, only those within your server's group.

[Niwashi]

Also - select all the languages in the Duty Finder instead of leaving just the default one there - this will speed up matching as well.

It might speed up getting a group, but unless you actually know all those languages it's at the cost of not being as able to work with the group once you get in. Not a very good tradeoff as far as I can see.

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.) Now, it's possible you'll get lucky and be in a group where everybody already knows the dungeon, but I wouldn't count on it, not in a random group where you can't even talk to your teammates.

[jayshirley]

Thanks for the tips, but what a farking joke. I wait around another hour and finally get a Sastasha group and get through it. Whew. So I go turn in quest and do the next step thinking I am finally going to get a chance to actually play the game for awhile and blammo: next quest takes you to a, wait for it, DUNGEON!

Back to the duty finder for another indefinite amount of time. Im only freaking lv 18. I dont know if Im going to stick with this...