new players screwed?

[Alquamire]

Haukke manor, this was day 3 of trying to do the story. The previous 2 days I waited about 1.5 hours each before giving up.

Might be because you're playing on a legacy server. Your folks were mostly endgame-ready when ARR hit, and according to a friend legacy characters can't even do the new story?

[Felis]

Might be because you're playing on a legacy server. Your folks were mostly endgame-ready when ARR hit, and according to a friend legacy characters can't even do the new story?

This is irrelevant with DF. DF mix you up with people from all the other servers in the same data center.

Difference is in most other memo's your personal character story is not stuck to these low level dungeons. Can't imagine what this is going to be like for somebody new a year from now when everybody is going to be at top level whatever the cap is at that time.

I can imagine that in a year the party requirement for the beginner dungeons would be changed to 2-4 party members

[Alhanelem]

Might be because you're playing on a legacy server. Your folks were mostly endgame-ready when ARR hit, and according to a friend legacy characters can't even do the new story?

The duty finder works across several servers. It doesn't matter if you're on a legacy world or not- there are several worlds in each duty finder group.

[NeonC]

Yup waited for copper mines for over 3 hours, nada <.<

[Shneibel]

that apply to most mmorpg, the early dungeon of the game ALWAYS die. If a player join the game late, the new player will always be able to find new friends, new FC and new LS if he shout or looking for shout in main city or on the field,or pray that you ll get in.

I know there are plenty of high lvl tank & healer queue on low lvl dungeon to help ppl sometime but not all the time.

[Roaminggnome]

Difference is in most other memo's your personal character story is not stuck to these low level dungeons. Can't imagine what this is going to be like for somebody new a year from now when everybody is going to be at top level whatever the cap is at that time.

that apply to most mmorpg, the early dungeon of the game ALWAYS die. If a player join the game late, the new player will always be able to find new friends, new FC and new LS if he shout or looking for shout in main city or on the field,or pray that you ll get in.

I know there are plenty of high lvl tank & healer queue on low lvl dungeon to help ppl sometime but not all the time.

[Knosis]

So my friend wants to play ffxiv, great. he gets the game and is now level 20 and is trying to do probably pirates. So he is in Q for 4 hours and cant get a group. Then it hits me, i cant run him though by my self and there is no reason for anyone pass this quest to ever run it again since fate spamming is so much better. No one is making more chars other then there 1 because there is almost no need.

So what now, my friend is ok because i can hook him up with 2 more people to help but how does a brand new player with no friends on a server do anything with this game at this point?

It's an mmorpg, make some friends. Not all of us play to increase the size of our e-peen and reach lv50.\

EDIT: Duty Finder is/will ruin mmorpg gaming. It negates the need for human interaction. Stop expecting everything on a silver platter and go talk to people. Make some friends.

[Trystan]

I dont know... when I level other classes/jobs I do Dungeons a lot. Even though Fate might be the most efficient way, I dont care. I do some Fates, some Guildhests, some Leves and Dungeons and some left-over side-quests. Longterm motivation and sanity needs diversity.

Most people in my FC do lower level dungeons for alternative classes, too. Not everybody is a "Fate-Zombie"

So I do use the DF a lot for lower dungeons and the queues as Healer are almost instant, as DD maybe 20-40 minutes. So there are still a lot of people who do low level dungeons and enjoy them.

[Taika]

The best way to progress for any player, new or old, is to find a good LS or FC that supports their members progression. I don't understand why people spend so much time queueing for DF groups (which may not even complete the content) when they could just ask 3-7 LS people (or even shout) to do the content with them. LS and FC groups are especially useful when you're doing the content for the first time because they can teach you the content (and won't even try to make you skip cutscenes). All server forums have LS and FC recruitment threads so finding one shouldn't be difficult either.

[Soylent]

So what now, my friend is ok because i can hook him up with 2 more people to help but how does a brand new player with no friends on a server do anything with this game at this point?

Make your first class a tank, problem solved.

j/k, but really make some friends, join a FC, there's plenty of people willing to help