How is your frontline queue?

[Moonlite]

do you have in progress and free lancer set?? Also if you get roulette says a funny number check shatter que. If roulette keeps saying 30+ and shatter says less then 5 it is trying to put you in a dead lobby.

[Derio]

Not going in as a freelancer I usually get in under 10 minutes, sometimes 5 during peak times.

[Awful]

Que'd for Frontline as a freelancer took 45 seconds.

[Ultimatecalibur]

It might be your language settings.

The duty finder organizes groups by language and work fairly well for most content, but PvP gets messed up by it. The system tries to create single language instances and finding 72 or 24 people for some languages can create dead queues.

Considering Phoenix is in the EU datacenter, check which languages you have active and set it so that only one language is active when you queue for PvP.

[Ash_]

It might be your language settings.

The duty finder organizes groups by language and work fairly well for most content, but PvP gets messed up by it. The system tries to create single language instances and finding 72 or 24 people for some languages can create dead queues.

Considering Phoenix is in the EU datacenter, check which languages you have active and set it so that only one language is active when you queue for PvP.

That's not the experience on a JP data centre. If we selected only E, we would never get a pop in anything, including frontlines. In having every language selected que times are around 5 mins for frontlines, 10 seconds for 8v8 Feast.

My guess is OP is trying to enter at the wrong time of day.

[Ultimatecalibur]

That's not the experience on a JP data centre. If we selected only E, we would never get a pop in anything, including frontlines. In having every language selected que times are around 5 mins for frontlines, 10 seconds for 8v8 Feast.

My guess is OP is trying to enter at the wrong time of day.

Well English isn't the main language of the JP datacenters. Queuing only English in there is like queuing only French/German/Japanese on Aether and Primal. Queuing only J in them is likely the same speed or even slightly faster than queuing with all languages selected.

Getting stuck in a hung queue was a fairly common occurrence pre-3.5 though most didn't realize that was what was happening.

[bounddreamer]

Five minutes or less on Primal.

[Beckett]

Even at 2am, I was getting into 72-man Shatter matches in 5-15 minutes.

[Inori-Yuzuriha]

1 hour .

[Culfinrandir]

It can be weird. I wasn't getting any games as Maelstrom on Primal before Garo. Now I queue as Freelancer & usually get a game in less than 10 minutes. However, over the weekend I had huge queues, quite a few I cancelled after 30mins sitting at "approx 7mins" or so. I did see a few 24 man Shatters though, which is unusual. Last night (Sunday) it wasn't too bad again. There seems to be a very unusual 'prime time' for Frontlines that doesn't correspond with the rest of the game.