Instance timers need to go

[Dale]

This is becoming more and more of a serious issue for me.

This is the only game I've ever played that puts strict time limits on instances formed through the Duty Finder. This mechanic really needs to go.

Aside from the fact it leaves very little room for mistakes and is punishing to newer players who are likely playing together for the first time. It also allows the occasional asshole to easily sabotage an entire run. Get rid of this or my time on this game may be limited.

[Tiggy]

This is becoming more and more of a serious issue for me.

This is the only game I've ever played that puts strict time limits on instances formed through the Duty Finder. This mechanic really needs to go.

Aside from the fact it leaves very little room for mistakes and is punishing to newer players who are likely playing together for the first time. It also allows the occasional asshole to easily sabotage an entire run. Get rid of this or my time on this game may be limited.

1.5-2 hours isn't enough? Really? I do hope you understand why I have no sympathy. Even on runs where most people were doing it for the first time we easily beat dungeons with most of the time to spare. It hardly leaves "very little room for mistakes."

[A-Shock]

What dungeon are you having a hard time completing in the time limit....?

[shikarin]

It's an overreaction resulting from the 18 hour pandemonium warden way back when.

Yes, the time limit is more than enough, but still there's really no point in having a time limit for instances.

[Nikorayu]

What dungeon are you having a hard time completing in the time limit....?

Judging by his class levels shown on lodestone, I assume it's the Sunken Temple of Qarn.

[Sinth]

This is becoming more and more of a serious issue for me.

This is the only game I've ever played that puts strict time limits on instances formed through the Duty Finder. This mechanic really needs to go.

Aside from the fact it leaves very little room for mistakes and is punishing to newer players who are likely playing together for the first time. It also allows the occasional asshole to easily sabotage an entire run. Get rid of this or my time on this game may be limited.

By "very little room for error" I believe you mean, 'allows full party wipes more than 5 times and still leaving time to complete'. Also, timers are needed or DF servers can be filled up by afk/malicious players. So what you're telling us is that you need unlimited time to brute force every instance?

IMO if you wipe 5 times you should be auto-kicked from an instance no matter what the timer says. But then again, I'm not part of the 'entitlement' generation.

[Etgar]

15-50 was all DF, never with friends or people I knew. At my very worst I had 40 minutes left, not sure how you can burn through all that time.

[Naunet]

Yes, the time limit is more than enough, but still there's really no point in having a time limit for instances.

Nope, there isn't. But good luck getting any response from the folk here other than "You must suck if you can't complete an instance within the timer." That's the point. The timers are completely necessary. They don't introduce a challenge, only hassle when something unexpected comes up. >_< I had a thread on this matter in the beta forums that got a few hundred likes, but most of the thread was trolled by those kinds of people.

[Sinth]

Please read my post above if you think there is no reason for a timer you are sorely mistaken.

[Tyndles]

The only time I came remotely close to timing out was in um....I dont remember the name of it but it was the level 41 dungeon with the dragons. It was because my friends first time there and he was being super cautious with his pulls. We had 15 minutes at the end.