72 player instances make Forked Tower incredibly painful to do.

[opaltatcoeurl]

As title states, the instances being limited to 72 as opposed to Eureka's 144 makes doing Forked Tower incredibly annoying. As a pre-organized group, it can take up to 30 minutes to get multiple groups in the same instance, and leads to a ton of frustration for everyone involved. You can't do the content with just people in the instance either, as only having 72 people in the instance means you will almost never have a full 48 people at a high enough level who are willing to go in.

I understand there's probably some issue on the back end that makes it more challenging, but it's something that was already done in Eureka back in Stormblood, so I would hope it's still able to be done in a more modern expansion as well.

I really hope that the instance size is increased in the future, as Forked Tower itself is a ton of fun, both in organized groups and with whoever is in the instance.

[MicahZerrshia]

There is also the fact that many ppl want you to be in their premade groups and will refuse to heal or raise you if you're not, in casual content that is open, has entry requirements that are not easy to come by and is not just queuable by groups.

They got this so wrong is Eureka with BA, got it right in Bozja and just went back to the bad Eureka decision afterward. I thought they were supposed to be learning and improving this sort of content and not going backwards. Why are they making content that is supposed to be casual, so easily gate kept behind rando discord groups? I mean i am fine joining discord for call outs, but I don't want to be in any discord for FFXIV, I have been in a few and yikes, just yikes. iykyk

[Valence]

I feel that's a problem I didn't think of.
I guess going into an OC instance with a full alliance first (if it's even possible?) would guarantee you only need to recruit 24 people once in? That feels even more discord group oriented if anything?

[opaltatcoeurl]

You can't queue with an instance either each party has to hope to queue into the same instance

[opaltatcoeurl]

There is also the fact that many ppl want you to be in their premade groups and will refuse to heal or raise you if you're not, in casual content that is open, has entry requirements that are not easy to come by and is not just queuable by groups.

They got this so wrong is Eureka with BA, got it right in Bozja and just went back to the bad Eureka decision afterward. I thought they were supposed to be learning and improving this sort of content and not going backwards. Why are they making content that is supposed to be casual, so easily gate kept behind rando discord groups? I mean i am fine joining discord for call outs, but I don't want to be in any discord for FFXIV, I have been in a few and yikes, just yikes. iykyk

Yeah, if the instance was bigger you could more realistically just form groups in instance, much like how JP does BA. But with the smaller instances, it's so much less feasible, especially with many people leveling up in instances still. Even as a regular in many of the discord servers that organize it I really hate how they try to hold a monopoly on the instances, but with the instance size as it is it's gonna end up like BA again where you can only ever do it with one of the Discords.

[Ozalius]

Did you just ask SE to play this game?

[CVXIV]

It really should have just been how CLL and Dalriada handle it

[Valence]

You can't queue with an instance either each party has to hope to queue into the same instance

That's what I was afraid of...

[Kandraxx]

Did you just asked SE to play this game?

They don’t have time to play their own game cuz they’re busy playing their female blood elves in Classic WoW.

[Espon]

DRS allowed for 48-man queuing. It would be nice if this was added to OC.

We tried for over an hour last night trying to get 48 people into the same instance, first on Aether and then on Dynamis. No luck on either DC.