Real rewards need to be added to Story instances.

[Rochetm]

The other night some guy was shouting for help with Cape westwind. I told him I would help and me being a tank should help the queue... I join the group of 4 players.. tank x2, healer and dps... no go.

We keep looking for people in various zones to help out. We sat in queue with 2 tanks, 2 healers and 3 dps for 10 minutes looking for a final member but we found someone before it went through. Thats not good.

Today I spent 10 minutes waiting in queue for a fourth member... 10 minutes for DPS.

This is going to continue to get worse and will go for all dungeons. There is no reason to run them after the story. Fates are faster and provide seals. Story instances provide a tiny bit of exp and nothing else.

People are not likely to stick around if they have to struggle to be able to complete the main story starting at level 15... that isn't fun.

[Haruka-Akemi]

Yeah i dont have a way to lv my whm or pld anymore nobody running dungeons >.<
I run the ocasional fate but it gets boring i want to tabk and heal for real
I think more gil and more exp in dungeons will be the way to go
When i started me and a friend runned dungeons together and helping new ppl clear em
Now i sit as a whm and wait 30mins or more

Edit: also at least 50 seals per mini boss and 50 at final boss will make people return to the fun that is clearing dungeons

[Seezur_Undies]

Fate running seems to be the "in" thing now. I would prefer to run dungeons to level my alt classes, but it take 5times as many dungeon runs to level, and the fact that me(PLD/31) and my friend (WHM/32) have sat in DF for over 30 minutes....*le sighs*

[Alise]

They should provide a random help reward for example. You select this option, and then you will queue into one random dungeon which you don't know during queue. Once you enter it and if you could help the members in the PT sweep clear, then you get 50 tome of mythology, 100 tome of physiology. So this will encourage people to help other, also making this tome farming less boring too.

[EzriNuru]

They should provide a random help reward for example. You select this option, and then you will queue into one random dungeon which you don't know during queue. Once you enter it and if you could help the members in the PT sweep clear, then you get 50 tome of mythology, 100 tome of physiology. So this will encourage people to help other, also making this tome farming less boring too.

They are adding something like this in 2.1

[Seezur_Undies]

They are adding something like this in 2.1

*ears perk* Really, that would be awesome

[blowfin]

*ears perk* Really, that would be awesome

Here ya go, enjoy perking up.

We also plan to update the Duty Finder. As there are a significant number of updates planned, we're considering focusing on this during the next Letter from the Producer LIVE. One particular addition I'd like to briefly mention is random matching. This is a matching feature that will let you join instances at random after choosing one of several categories such as "leveling dungeons," "high-level dungeons," "main scenario primal battles," etc. By using random matching, you'll be able to obtain Allagan tomestones once a day for each category. After selecting a category for random matching, you will join whichever instance has the fastest matching speed. This feature will also make it easier for new players who are progressing through low level dungeons and story primal battles to be matched up.

Furthermore, we will be adopting an MVP voting feature, so you can vote on the player who you feel did the best job in the dungeon and they will receive MVP points. By accumulating these points, you will be able to exchange them for equipment and mounts.
When it comes to acquiring Allagan tomestones, we realize there are only a handful of options for obtaining them at the moment, but in patch 2.1 we'll be adding three new dungeons, extreme mode primal battles, Crystal Tower, beastmen daily quests, and treasure hunts, all of which will allow players to obtain Allagan tomestones. Although there are currently a mix of players who want to run through content efficiently to obtain tomestones and those who want to progress at their own pace which causes tension in Duty Finder parties, we feel this problem will be resolved when we add more methods to tomestones.