Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
This was proven entirely false once they removed GC restrictions. I had 5-10 minute queues for Shatter up until the day maintenance happened for early access to Stormblood.
Incidentally also the time when they introduced the Garo event: Patch 3.5. I got my Field Commander set in that time by simply persistently queuing for Seal Rock and nabbing some of the roulette using masses for myself *cough*

It died down near the end - Seal Rock died first, 8vs8 was getting ever more shaky then at some point I got 24 man Shatter matches quite consistently. But this is EU hours talking, I doubt it was quite as severe at US primetime.