Field Commander set unobtainable

[Draxian]

Please forgive my ignorance, but is anything being done about the field commander's set being practically unobtainable? Seal rock is on rotation in a dead playlist (havent found a game the past four times I've tried, despite queueing for over two hours). The roulette only queues the latest map.

[RicaRuin]

They said Seal Rock and Fields of Glory will be back in the Roulette with 5.3.

[OskarXCI]

Don't bother queuing for now. The three older FL maps will be brought back into the daily queue with 5.3. It will then rotate all four maps on a daily basis.

[Draxian]

Thanks guys!

[Araxes]

I still dont understand why we cant have all FL Maps in a randomroulette. That would be, at least in my humble opinion, more fun.

[Esmoire]

I still dont understand why we cant have all FL Maps in a randomroulette. That would be, at least in my humble opinion, more fun.

I think it made sense to have Onsal Hakair or whatever new map there is be the one that always shows up for a bit. It's a good way to get feedback, data, let achievement fiends work on their mounts, etc.

However, this has been far too long. Maybe a month or two would have been fine, or maybe every other day or something. 5.15 was in December of last year, so even if 5.3 wasn't delayed it would have meant they intended for this for half a year which is insane because some of the other FL maps are pretty good, with Seal Rock in particular being my fave. People who have started the game and completed Shadowbringers think this is all Frontline is. @~@

[Waaltar]

Having one type of match per day is a good thing. It makes it so people can learn the matches a lot more easily than if it were 1 out 3 or now 1 out of 4 random chance or cycling etc each time.

[OskarXCI]

I still dont understand why we cant have all FL Maps in a randomroulette. That would be, at least in my humble opinion, more fun.

Before the rotation feature was about added, the only map that was active was Field of Glory (Shatter). It had the reputation of having the shortest queue times and it became snowball effect from there. The achievements for Borderland Ruins (Secure) and Seal Rock (Seize) were more or less unobtainable. The Frontline roulette didn't really help anything since it places you in whatever map is the most active.

The PvP playerbase in FFXIV isn't big enough in order to keep several separate map queues active. The existing playerbase want the shortest queue times possible and that meant everybody just swarmed the queue for the latest map, Shatter.

The rotation feature forced everybody into the same map, it provided variety to matches and gave newcomers a chance at earning achievements on all maps.

[Moonlite]

Or they could stop being so short sighted and remove items from maps and just have them tied to wins. They could then add new win achievements without maps to get a bump in participation. But if they haven't learned yet, they never will.

[Waaltar]

Some of them are just paced for the pvp crowd that are in it for the long haul.

Plus, achievements that cater to people who don't care much for playing PVP itself seem to me to be of questionable value to the PVP community. The short term events like currently with Rival Wings being incentivized are fine because they draw in a lot of people who end up sticking around and playing ~regularly. If all they did was briefly ruin match quality it wouldn't be worth it.