It's been fun, but I'm out

[Avoidy]

wait....bots can queue up for dungeons?

Im being serious, in all my time running roulettes on an almost daily basis, I have never encountered such a thing

I once played on an alt and while leveling it through some early game dungeons, I got into one of the starter dungeons with 2 people who both had similar gibberish names with light variations at the end. One was a healer and one was a tank. They both moved around in a circle and then immediately left while the other dps and I just scratched our heads, waited a few minutes for it to find replacements, and ultimately disbanded when the system couldn't find anyone. It was the first and only time I've seen that happen. I think maybe he was a dummy who queued in with a group when he meant to queue alone lmao

[Catwho]

I once played on an alt and while leveling it through some early game dungeons, I got into one of the starter dungeons with 2 people who both had similar gibberish names with light variations at the end. One was a healer and one was a tank. They both moved around in a circle and then immediately left while the other dps and I just scratched our heads, waited a few minutes for it to find replacements, and ultimately disbanded when the system couldn't find anyone. It was the first and only time I've seen that happen. I think maybe he was a dummy who queued in with a group when he meant to queue alone lmao

That's quite possible. Most bots queue in solo into instances so that they can get a carry.

That said, since Lost City is not an MSQ required dungeon, it makes no sense that a bot would queue up for it. They are usually grinding through MSQ to unlock later profitable zones, or to sell a fully leveled 90 account on the black market. Unrequired side content is just wasted time for either of those tasks.

They used to spam the old Amdapor Keep for some reason (to the point where they actually clogged up Duty Finder spamming it; I think because they could clear the first room in under 5 minutes back when the trash mobs gave exp and gil.)

It's almost more likely that OP just had an instance full of newbies or scrubs than bots.

[Akibaws]

I have only ever seen 1 bot in duty content and it was a party finder for an EX trial in Endwalker. The bot would chase the closest player to them to try and dodge mechanics. They wouldn't answer and looking on fflogs their rotation was perfect.

[Themarvin]

Just power through DPS wise...