Content Finder

[Madruk]

Sounds more like the actual content is too easy vs. the content finder actually being detrimental. If you can do most content in a pickup group there would be no point to tight-knit linkshells regardless.

I don't have a problem with finding groups easily to do one group dungeons, who really wants to wait 4 hours for a group like you had to sometimes in 11? But if you have raids that you can beat with a pickup that's more of a problem with the game itself than the content finder.

[Mychael]

Sounds more like the actual content is too easy vs. the content finder actually being detrimental. If you can do most content in a pickup group there would be no point to tight-knit linkshells regardless.

I don't have a problem with finding groups easily to do one group dungeons, who really wants to wait 4 hours for a group like you had to sometimes in 11? But if you have raids that you can beat with a pickup that's more of a problem with the game itself than the content finder.

Basically, this. The game of course needs content that can be handled with pickup groups, but it also needs content that requires planning, strategy, and will work best with players you know. But if you can use the Content Finder to win everything, that's a problem with the content, not the finder.

Also along these lines, part of the reason we need a content finder is that no one wants to do the content. There's no reason to. Gear has become outdated far too fast in XIV, so most of the content that people have trouble finding parties for is largely ignored because no one wants/needs it. For content that still provides benefit (few people are 7/7 on Ifrit or Moogle, for example), it's almost impossible not to find a group.


I still prefer an intra-server finder to an inter-server search, though, for reasons I'm not going to repeat.