Leveling up makes me want to quit.

[Felmyst]

2 hour leveling roulette queues sounds a bit high. I've never had one take more than 40 minutes. Though...queues seem to have been a bit wonky lately.

Me, I started playing the game about 5 months ago and I'm coming up on my third L60. I've got PLD at 53 and DRG at 50. I leveled mostly through dungeons and fates...and guildhests/leves at low levels. You also have 100 leve allowances and gain 6 per day, so it takes a pretty long time to run out of those. Quarrymill and North Than seem to be the best places for low level fates (North Than for ~40-52ish). Leveling is fairly quick until 50 in my experience, so I'm not sure what they can do other than somehow shortening queues for dungeons or increasing exp from pvp. :/

Yes I know exactly all of this. But I am out of Leves as said in OP. I know the pattern and way to go. And yes I know the EXP is quick when you have the luck of having people in the area doing said FATE's. Or when DF can be actually decent. But in the last weeks it has been horrible, so that I am not out of leves and deal with ridiculous delay for roulette / duneon. And to be sure you are on the same line as I am. I speak of low level, not HW or post HW..

How is the situation on Diabolos per say? If it went all smooth for you maybe there are more new players? Because I start to think the issue is Balmung itself.

[Avidria]

Yes I know exactly all of this. But I am out of Leves as said in OP. I know the pattern and way to go. And yes I know the EXP is quick when you have the luck of having people in the area doing said FATE's. Or when DF can be actually decent. But in the last weeks it has been horrible, so that I am not out of leves and deal with ridiculous delay for roulette / duneon. And to be sure you are on the same line as I am. I speak of low level, not HW or post HW..

How is the situation on Diabolos per say? If it went all smooth for you maybe there are more new players? Because I start to think the issue is Balmung itself.

Yeah, low level tends to go a lot faster than HW does. Took me about as long to go 50-60 as it did to go 1-50. Dungeon queues do seem to be shorter after 50 as well though.

Things seem to be pretty good on Diabolos. 1-5 min queues as tank or healer if they aren't instant, 1-40 as dps depending on the time of day (for leveling roulettes). This past week it's been kind of odd...much longer queues than usual. Not sure if it's post patch or if something is up with the queues since this is the first major patch I've actually played at the start of.

[KaiKatzchen]

And to be sure you are on the same line as I am. I speak of low level, not HW or post HW..

How is the situation on Diabolos per say? If it went all smooth for you maybe there are more new players? Because I start to think the issue is Balmung itself.

Well he did say that he started 5 months ago and has all of that - so I'm sure he's talking about low level and HW as well. Also it shouldn't just be your server that is the issue unless you are doing Party Finder and not Duty Finder, which I am guessing is not the case seeing you say you have long waits. DF actually pulls from the whole date center, not just your particular server. So it would have to be your whole data center (which is made up for 13 servers) that has an issue. Also I know they have been saying DF is bugged since 3.1-

On a thread that you can find here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...g-as-it-should

They did say that as far as they know its working but they are looking into it and seeing if they can find anything wrong:

Greetings,

While queue times have increased, we have seen no indication that the Duty Finder is experiencing any matching issues since the release of Patch 3.1. For the Void Ark specifically, we're seeing longer wait times for tanks and healers. As Void Ark offers iLv 200 gear, we assume that many players are queuing up to earn gear for their secondary roles which seems to often be tanks. For now, we would suggest forming a full party via Party Finder, or as an alliance, to help alleviate this for the time being.

Also, as mentioned in the Patch 3.1 notes, currently there is a known issue with the Duty Finder display where each of the roles are showing up as 0. Please note that this is only a display error, and the matching process is functioning correctly. The dev. team is currently investigating this issue.

We'll continue to monitor the situation and if we spot any issues or irregularities, we'll be sure to follow up.

Only other thing I can think of doing is posting in the bugs area that there are still issues going on, you feel. Other than that - hold out and see if it gets fixed or I guess you can do what you feel you need to do and if it's no longer worth your money you can stop playing. Whatever you decide, do whats best for you.