PhrozenFFXI wrote:
Yodabunny wrote:
I levelled DRG in FFXI before it was cool...never again. ***** your LFG fodder.
This is why I'm glad the grind pt is gone. Sure, DD ques can be fairly long at times, but it has nothing on waiting hours with your flag up to find a group--especially if your job wasn't the flavor of the month.
With ffxiv, you have other exp options while waiting for that que to pop. Hunts, leves, fates, and quests fill the gaps between que times, which is a good thing when you're just trying to squeeze in some time. If I have 30 or 40 minutes to kill before work, I can chase a few fates or hunts, or maybe knock out some leves. Not so much in ffxi.
Well then I am the opposite and disappointed the grind pt option is shunned. I would like the option to do whatever I please while queuing for dungeons. While the duty finder is a welcome addition for lessening downtime. It periodically limits me on what I can do while queuing. Theoretically it is possible for the developers to make a duty finder that allows you to participate in whatever you wish while queued but there are limitations existing now. But that is due to them not being able or unwilling to tune the duty finder. You don't have to worry about flavor of the month jobs here because exotic builds is virtually non existent due to jobs being designed similar but with different colors.
Just to re-iterate here, the duty finder could be tuned better to allow players to queue regardless of what they are doing it just has not done it. It is said it respects your time and that is true to some degree. But I pose the question, what is more important?
Having something to do at all times which might not be where your passion resides at the moment?
Having something to do more often but not all the time which is exactly where your passion resides in the moment?
Which circumstance would be more uplifting and light you up, make you savor and appreciate what unfolds?
If the worry here is that a grind party option would devastate the duty finder. I don't see that being the case with some changes to the duty finder. However, if no changes could made. I would be fine with this option being tied to guildleves limiting it to spurts due to the leve allowance.
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