New Player - Duty Finder regularly taking 30 to 60 to even 2+ hours !!!!

[sephrok1]

I am very discouraged to play as I cannot get through Main Story or good quests because the duty finder just doesnt work for me!

I am currently at 90 minutes on one to finish my Relic quest or Main Story quest..

Sometimes it takes 30 , sometimes it has gone to 2 hours and i just give up

Feeling like i'm just not welcome in this game.

[Espritduo]

1. Select all languages in the DF options.
2. Select join in progress.
3. If you're a high enough level, select to unsync it and just solo the content.
4. Put a Party Finder up and advertise you're a new player. It will fill much faster than DF.
5. Make sure you are not trying to queue up during the dead hours of the night for whatever time zone your datacenter is predominantly in.

If it takes 2 hours to queue up for anything required for the MSQ, then you are doing something wrong. SE has heavily incentivized MSQ-required content to ensure there is always a healthy amount of players doing them for various reasons.

[Vidu]

You're saying your're at 90 minutes queue right now? As in: The time you're posting this? Do you play during this time regulary?

I'm not surprised you're not getting into dungeons in this case - you're playing on Excalibur, which is a server on the Primal-datacenter. Primal is a datacenter for North America - and right now its early in the morning there, ranging from about 4 am to 7 am (depending which part of the USA we're talking about). Thats not a time a lot of people are online, playing an MMO.
If this is your normal time to play the game, you should look for a sever on a different datacenter.

Light and Chaos are european datacenters - its currently midday in europe, so its better but not ideal (at least not during the week, weekends might be fine).

Elemental, Gaia and Mana are japanese datacenters - its currently evening there, so the times would match, but there might be strong language barrier, aka: if you dont speak japanese, you might run into trouble later. Tonberry is the inofficial english server on japanese datacenters, so you could try your luck there.

[DarkMasamune]

Also, I feel like I need to add that unfortunately, DPS takes quite a while longer than tanks or healers to get into dungeons. According to your profile, you play an archer, so that's probably not helping you a lot

Don't worry, it's not a matter of not being welcome on the game. It's quite normal (althought 2+ hours isn't, but 15-20 minutes can be normal if you play DPS to be fair).

[Mykll]

There are just some places where nobody is running in DF.

[Infindox]

There are just some places where nobody is running in DF.

Well the issue with all of those is no one uses DF for them.

[RicaRuin]

There are just some places where nobody is running in DF.

Extreme Trials and Savage Raids (the ones you linked fall in those categories) aren't run via DF on the NA or EU Data Centre, here we use PF for that kind of content.

[Mykll]

You both helped to make my point exactly! There are just some places where nobody is running in DF. I read his post, knew I had a couple of hours of crafting and gathering ahead of me where I didn't want to be constantly interrupted, so I loaded up that list. Those couple of hours turned into a few more. If somehow I was able to get in, great, if not, proves the point I was wanting to make while getting a bunch of gathering and crafting done.

[Rongway]

You both helped to make my point exactly! There are just some places where nobody is running in DF.

Nobody is running those in DF because DFing them is asking for a bad time. Even if people were running the things you queued for, you would in most likelihood spend the entire lockout wiping. Savage and extreme fights have choreography for handling mechanics, none of which can be ignored at sync. And with some people at min IL--which would quite probably be the case if you DFed them--you would not meet the DPS checks because the people who queue for these things are people who haven't yet been told that Savage and extreme fights have choreography for handling mechanics, none of which can be ignored at sync. They're new enough not to have played in any serious content that requires them to execute their rotations effectively while also handling unignorable mechanics.

It's okay that nobody queues for those things.

People who want to do those things on the NA/EU servers should make a /partyfinder listing, whether they want to do things syncked or unsyncked. Be clear about what you want to do and the format you want to do it in (syncked/unsyncked, with or without spoilers, which phase of the fight to practice) and you will probably find experienced people who are happy to join in and help you.

[Iscah]

You both helped to make my point exactly! There are just some places where nobody is running in DF.

What point are you trying to prove, exactly? The OP says that he is encountering those wait times for "relic quests and main story quests".

Queuing into a whole lot of low-traffic side content that isn't needed for those quests doesn't prove anything useful here, as far as I can see.