Thank you so much for these tools, Square. Coming back to XIV after a post-2.4 break, to find unsync'ed and small party were added, has been a huge part of me then deciding to stay again.

Logged in yesterday, to find a referral friend had queued for four hours without Cape Westwind popping, and was getting fed up. Taxi-queued him with my Paladin, to find the Duty Finder not much faster, even around reset time. We did eventually manage to get an instance for Westwind, but after a prima-donna SCH and an OT Paladin who didn't use either stance, followed by the first twenty-five minutes of queuing for what was probably going to be a similarly unpleasant experience in Castrum, I got fed up and suggested we try unsync'ed with my dualbox WHM.

We ran the entirety of Castrum and Praetorium like this, clocking in a time of ~25 minutes on Castrum, and a little longer on Prae, so he could watch some of the cutscenes. Two deaths in total, I believe, and much, much less stress and aggro than with a PUG.

A huge, huge thanks for giving us this option, Square. You'd have lost a subscriber yesterday without them, and likely, in the long run, a second, when I got fed up with referring people who'd eventually only give up on the game due to their Duty Finder experiences. Hoping you do the same with the Heavensward content, once we're a few more patches in ^^

tdlr: DF queue sucks, DF drama sucks, saved a sub by dualboxing a friend through the end of 2.0.