Issues joining dutys

[Conradus]

Hey folks, it's been quite a while since I last played, but now I have a rl friend who is playing with me and we have been going around doing quests, fates and what have you.

Just recently we've started up the dungeon quests and to my frustration, I could not register us for the duty despite us both having the quest to enter said dungeon. The only thing I could think of was that my friend was higher level due to him grinding fates while I was offline.

If I passed the party off to him, we were able to register just fine. Why wouldn't I be able to register in the Duty Finder even though we both were capable of running the dungeon?

You don't just have to have the quest, you have to go down and talk to the NPC at the dungeon entrance to unlock it after you get the quest. Did you do that?