The Addition of Instances!?

[Nothv13]

Pretty sure the instancing has always been a thing, but only ever gets seen during times like expansion launches where there is such a high number of players.

[Faafetai]

FWIW, you can do /instance in the chat-box to see which instance you are currently in.

(As others have already mentioned, it wasn't in any patch notes because it's been a thing for ages when a zone would otherwise be unusable due to congestion; it's not a new feature. You are not wrong that it is, however, not a well-documented feature if you don't already know it's there.)

Thank you very much this helps a ton. I looked in all posts just to be sure, I think a November post did mention Endwalker zones being instanced, but had not encountered it until today in Mor Dhona.

Not all areas are instanced, just the ones that are usually heavily congested at the start of the expansion. They've done the same thing with previous expansions, they'll be gone at some point in the future.

This makes me a bit sad, I was secretly hoping this would be permanent, and also in towns but understand why it might not be able to be translated to main towns. Possibly to do with glamour dresser and how it is tied to the code. It most likely would cause havoc.

Btw, good chance to do some hunts, as the hunt targets can spawn in each instance.

Aye! I am so taking advantage of this if I can, and sending out shouts and see if special fate bosses spawn in multiple locations. I know many people may still not have achievements, so this is the perfect time to set up party finders for those bosses if they spawn or someone catches them spawning

Pretty sure the instancing has always been a thing, but only ever gets seen during times like expansion launches where there is such a high number of players.

I am sad it will not be permanent like other mmos, but aye this definitely seems to be the case. I only began playing about a year ago, so since I have played it hasn't been busy enough for them to put instances back. Well or put them in the super busy locations. I think some areas they physically can not do this like the gold saucer events that caused so much lag no one would load in for years and teleporting around would happen.