waiting time for dungeonsFollow

Hi
I am a noob, just started few days ago.
I am a lancer now lvl 20; I am doing the first dungeons.
Just for curiosity but is it normal that I have to wait for so long time (I say more than 1 or 2 hours) to join a party for a dungeon ??
Is there some trick to speed this process ... I normally go in other places to do something else (just for levelling a little more) but as I can play just one or two hours about per evening often happens that I am not able to do the next dungeon.
thank for help

I've only ever waited longer than an hour for one fight on DF (Ifrit), and I was on Pugilist so it wasn't one of the two coveted roles (Tank and Healer). I never let it bother me though (and this was before the DF server upgrade), I'd generally go and grind or join a Fate or do some side quests and before I realised I'd get picked by the DF.

The only other thing I've done is talk to people waiting in Duty at the node to see if I can blag a spot in party.

Pro-tip to help with Q times (the seem long to every class, I had to wait like 20min last night as a healer :3):
1) Make sure all the lingo buttons are high lighted (click them). This apparently is a real thing, and the more lingo options you pick to q up with the bigger your pool gets.
2) There is a little box near the top of the Duty List, says something like "Join a Duty already going on", click that. It is you agreeing to join maybe not a fresh duty (bazinga!) and one already in the process.

Queueing up all selections to speed up the process is not a "pro tip," it's pro assery, nor does it speed up the time for a specific dungeon. Ever wonder why you queue and once the box pops up, someone declines right away? It's the people queueing all selections, declining the one you were excited about so they can wait for the randomizer to pop the one they want; meanwhile, shattering the dreams of that other dps that was waiting for his/her instance, that you just declined.

Unfortunately, dps have a longer wait time. As others said, queue as healer or tank and you will pop instances very quickly. Even so, you still have a chance at rolling on dps gear for your dps class as long as the other dps doesn't need that piece.

Click all the language buttons. Don't click all the dungeons.

Uncheck any dungeon you've already done that you don't want to do again. The Duty Finder is not psychic - if it sees you've checked all the dungeons, it assumes you'll be happy doing any of those dungeons.

It used to take forever to get into AK, even if you had a full party together and queued you would still be waiting 30 minutes to enter. It has become significantly better since the times before and just after the df fix.

Either be a tank or healer or wait queue like the rest of the 80%-90% population of DPS. I'd go with a Tank class/job such as MRD/WAR if you want to speed things up since you probably like to melee. But if you like LNC, you can craft or gather while you wait in queue it helps to pass time.

If you join a free company you can go into duty finder with your own group is this true? My Arcanist is lv47 and close to solo clearing every zone random quest and fates that's not connected to the grand company or main story line. He get lots of anonymous free company invites every night. If this is true I can at least try the first dungeon before I start on DoL achievements. SE said game info would be on their site mid September i'm giving them till October before I go back there, so confirmation that this is true will be appreciated.

Yea I can't say I've had groups that say more than hello, and then thank you and goodbye at the end.

I speak only English, and I've had 0 issue communicating with non-English speaking people inside duties. This game is not region and language locked, so why would you limit yourself to just one group? Best thing about FFXI was meeting and playing a game with people across the globe, and the tool that made it happen just happens to be in this game as well.

No, but you'll have to switch back to LNC to accept the queue.

To the OP: if you did not know, many new players do not, you can save and hot bar your class gear sets so when you do queue, it's a quick button press to swap out jobs while you wait, and easily swap back when the queue box pops up.

Wben I queue up my Dragoon, I just let it run while I lvl another job, or some fishing or crafting. When the queue box pops, I'm often startled because I get engrossed in the activity I was currently doing, and often times forget I even queued. Sometimes I wait 20 min, other times, 40'ish minutes. Sometimes I'll queue, go do something else, and then log out, forgetting that I ever queued! Point being, there is always something else to do while you wait. You should never just stand around "waiting" for the queue to pop.

Edited, Sep 28th 2013 6:31am by SistinasAria

This. This. And more this.

My DPS queues, regardless of level (but especially at 50), are never more than 15 minutes with "Join Party in Progress" checked. Most of the times, it's a salvageable party, too. For instance, everyone had left on AK at Demon Wall. I join and a few others join and we get a partially done instance! It's great.