Dungeons and fate grinding just don't seem to be my thing...

[DexterousGecko]

So I got the game recently, and up until a few days ago was totally in love with it. The story is epic, loving the interesting quests, was enjoying going through the dungeons the first couple of times, and just immersing myself in the world. However, I've recently hit level 40, and man, it feels like I hit a brick wall!

The quests have basically dried up completely. I've done every quest in my journal. The next one is a dungeon, which as a dps, I have yet to get in (waited for 20 minutes before getting bored and logging) I've done all my hunter logs to the level I'm at, and basically spent the last few nights grinding out fates. The fates were fun for a bit, but it's just spam rotation, run to next fate, spam rotation, run, etc. It started to get painful.

As for the dungeons, they were cool at first, but now they all seem very similar. LOTS of trash mobs that pose no challenge at all, and have inflated hitpoints just to have inflated hitpoints. The boss fights are VERY cool, really enjoy those mechanics, but it's 30 minutes of "uuuuhhhhhh" to get to 3 - 5 minutes of "yay!"

I guess I'm just wondering if there is anything I can do. I want to complete the story, so Im going to continue grinding it out and hopefully find a group for the last few dungeons (don't want to bother my fc too much, they've already helped me lots)

Does the game have any end game boss fights that aren't preceeded by 100 trash mobs? Those trials would be an example. Quick, fun but difficult.

[Enkidoh]

I presume you're stuck on Stone Vigil right? That was a major pain for me too - luckily it's the last 'true' dungeon you have to worry about for the storyline - after that it's another Primal battle, and a ton of solo instances. Then it's all 8-man content (one boss fight and the two end dungeons, which because people farm them for tomes you should have no trouble getting a party for those).

Don't despair - I had trouble clearing it too - just trying to get a party that stayed together as PLD or WHM was bad enough. I found setting the DF for all languages and not just English helped a lot too. Anyway, don't give up! You're not that far from the end of the main storyline so it would be a shame to quit now - just keep trying Duty Finder and you should hopefully get a party (I'd help you myself if I was on your server.).