Rathmine wrote: »

One of the most crucial features of an MMORPG is the ability to group with other players and do things together. In ESO, one of those things is running amok in dungeons. It’s fun getting four random strangers together and wreaking havoc. Unfortunately, the tool we have to achieve this end, the Dungeon Finder, is hopelessly broken and it’s ruining the game for many.

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Broken DF will be my red-text “Goodbye.” from the quest of ESO; you can keep your Prosperous Glacial Staff of Nomeg Haga and 120 GP. The extreme hassle of using it is not worth the rewards anymore. Running dungeons became the one thing left that I liked about this game, but it has gotten so bad that I just can’t take it anymore—there are better games out there, online or otherwise, and the hour has come when we must set aside the fancy costumes and interior decorator compulsions, to effect meaningful change on something that has been broken far too long.

I have been playing Final Fantasy 14 since they revealed the fact they are destroying any remaining fun in this game. I have enjoyed myself so far. And soloing on a tank is not as monotonous as even PRE-morrowind tanky solo is in this game. Just imagine how unfun the game will be for some dps players after morrowind, let alone tanky/heals lessening their numbers further for content rofl.

I'll tell you, in FF 14 I don't take too long on my dps job usually to get into a dungeon and it's cross-server queue in the duty finder which could have it's ups and downs. But I haven't encountered a**hats yet, just a snob or two and rude comment which was far less than I expected and not usually directed toward myself anyways. Most players are silent and focused, or friendly there. The exact opposite of my queue/pug experience in eso after coming back in one tamriel.

If you enjoy dungeons, there are as many in FF14 as in ESO, with as much variety. There are also plenty of trials, and you can run those all of the time. The duty finder lets you pug trails and raids in FF14. I had noticed myself and a second tank would immediately fill up my high level duty finder queues for trial content sometimes while I would wait to see dps or heals show up so while low and mid levels may be slow for dps (usually not longer than about 20 minutes in my experience so far) it should even out for higher level content that has 8 players.

You get a display of the classes you are currently matched with, and your position in the waiting list and the estimated wait times are generally pretty accurate. You can also register for duty finder on one job, and then switch to another or to a crafting class and kill your time until the queue comes up when you simply switch back to the job you registered with and accept the prompt from the queue. The one exception is the leaver penalty is half an hour and you waste a leve if you need to accept in the middle of one. But you can choose to withdraw up to twice per day without penalty, on the third withdrawel (cancellation once you're prompted to accept) is when I think a penalty starts to kick in to discourage holding up the queues for people constantly. In eso when you log an alt you are back in hours long queue again, since eso doesn't have all class/job on the same character and in eso the dungeon finder has been broken since launch in some way, shape or form.

I advise you , and others who feel the way you do to do the free trial of Final Fantasy 14. I have seen a lot of people using the trial lately. Possibly because they are migrating from other games, perhaps eso even if they heard of the monotonous morrowind combat. Also it's nearing the time of year though I guess, where school end and more people are playing games and for longer. But try the free trial out, and it is also on console, on playstation 4. I'm not sure if the trial is available for console but it should be. If you like it, do as I did and purchase Stormblood instead of morrowind.

To be fair, Squenix plans some gameplay changes as well some point after Stormblood but they have a track record of never doing anything even half as stupid and cruel to casuals or even the average pve player as zyngamax has done on pts. And what happens in pts doesn't stay in pts most of the time in this game. I expect the Final Fantasy 14 Stormblood launch to be fairly smooth in comparison to the morrowind launch which will tie people up with new gear and respecs in a game lacking a simple market system that isn't convoluted and bound to exploitation in periods of need like the one morrowind will create. We won't spend our first days or weeks in Stormblood just getting our toons in working condition before beginning to experience the new content, or at least I am confident that we won't. And I believe they will do like they did with Heavensward and release content in pieces initially as well. For an elder scrolls game that obviously won't be the right approach, but it allows people time to progress and catch up in the FF14 structure.

I'm looking forward to the new jobs in Stormblood, especially the Samurai. And also to leveling up the Warrior to have all three tank jobs up to par for their inter-job skills that are important to the role. The duty finder will be ripe for that in the time leading up to Stormblood while people catch up some jobs for it, and for a while after release as they level the new dps jobs as well. I expect as much activity as I have currently experienced and realistically at least a little bit more activity by then.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/stormblood/

inb4 ban for promoting Stormblood over morrow lol