Quote Originally Posted by Rhysati View Post
Unfortunately after 2 hours of waiting(on Balmung, the busiest server and data center there is), I couldn't get a group, thus barred from continuing my story as I desired to do.

THAT is a problem. And it will only get worse as people level their characters high enough that they never have any reason to do those story-specific dungeons and trials again.
Agreed completely. Having to complete content that nobody wants to do anymore in order to access the new content is bad design. Unless SE either cut back on the required quests needed to enter HW or give incentives for level 60 players to help out then the only people who will be able to reliably access HW in the future will be those in a FC or with friends. No doubt someone will jump in here and tell me that friends and a FC are needed in this game anyway (which I know), but it shouldn't be a barrier to progress into more SOLO content.