Why dont you use RAID FINDER?

[Jib]

So i did Byakko EX, i try to use raid finder as in my mind it is the best way to find players that have done it....

YOU arent using it? why?

I remember back in SusanoEX and LakshmiEX it was almost instant queues.. nothing now...

it is just all through group finder..

to say this pic was taken this saturday, Europe(London time GMT), at around 16pm .. I mean in the weekend not pop for over 1h.

(I queue as a Healer)

It did fill up to 1 tank left and then it went down.. over and over again...

Why arent you using it folks?

[AxlStream]

Because the normal DF player is barely better than a monkey... The more content I do through PF the better as I actually know quite a few good players from my DC now.

[Jib]

this is not Duty finder...this is RAID FINDER, with raid checked COMPLETED! .. i mean if a player has completed it, that is what im looking for.. many times through PARTY finder ppl lie.. I dont get it.. Is it because it is too soon and not enough ppl have completed yet? I mean it is a very simple EX primal compared to others in the past...

[AxlStream]

this is not Duty finder...this is RAID FINDER, with raid checked COMPLETED! .. i mean if a player has completed it, that is what im looking for.. many times through PARTY finder ppl lie.. I dont get it.. Is it because it is too soon and not enough ppl have completed yet? I mean it is a very simple EX primal compared to others in the past...

The only time it was even usable was when Soph EX was a thing and still back then most of these ended as wipes in my experience. Any player going through auto matchmaking in higher end content is asking for trouble. Also the best players know to avoid that feature like the plague.

[Settiesama]

Using the Raid Finder, you have different people to compete against every time, while in Party Finder, if someone gets a drop you have one less person to lot against (unless of course they loot and scoot). Also you have instant queues each and every time it's flagged up since already in party, no waiting between each run.

[Vaer]

You might end up with stacked jobs that kills/makes it harder to do the Tank LB3 strat which is a widely accepted strat right now on NA/EU for Byakko.

Party comp was one of the reasons barely anyone used it for Zurvan EX either. (Most popular party comp for Zurvan EX was 1 tank in NA/EU, RF forces 2)

[raela]

I had fairly good experience in RF for Sophia Ex, but I think it's more appealing to have a consistent group so you're not risking wipes / abandons if you roll into a bad one. It would be nice to have a hybrid option - maintain PF listing while also in RF queue. If people don't enter RF, then it drops right back into PF (ditto for post run via RF).

[Jib]

Yes you bring a good point.. i used it also a lot in Sophia EX, but also from my experience, Lakshmi and Susano EX had very decent queue times.. this one .. for some reason I havent been able to have a pop for over 90m in a weekend afternoon ... :/ .. I guess with Group finder, that in my experience is worse to be honest as ppl lie... it can be more frustrating

[NephthysVasudan]

There's A Raid Finder?

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*Goes back to using party finder* (With duty completed checked - same thing really)

[Jib]

There's A Raid Finder?

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*Goes back to using party finder* (With duty completed checked - same thing really)

But that is the thing.. if the tool is there why dont you use it really? for me the unpredictability of getting bad players is the same, or is it not?