I was curious if either of these are real or just some weird bullshit and LORD I WISH I HADN'T. Looks like the other one pictured in the comment was complaining about 'Being locked again' but not the very heavy airquotes halfling.
Getting Dead Ends on any class means you're likely dragging some smooth-brained idiot through things and may god have mercy on your soul because two of the three bosses kill these parties dead as hell.
Nearly 100% of my Dead Ends run for months now have usually been ending up with everyone but me and one competent DPS dying to the second and last bosses, without fail.
People in this game are really something else. I've had people go off the goddamn rail because I tell them to return instead of waiting for a raise so they can come back without weakness into the next boss in 24man raids and shit. After they're done acting like an autist, they leave the instance even if we're at the last boss for whatever reason. They probably think they're "proving a point" when literally accomplishing nothing.
Hold up, do you remember the Lalafell Dancer's name? Because a few weeks ago, I was doing a main scenario roulette, my brain went stupid and I forgot about my stance turning off with level sync, so midway into the first wall-to-wall pull, I realized it, turned it on, established aggro properly, popped my CDs, and poked some fun at myself for derping on my stance like that, and I had a Mentor-crown wearing Lala Dancer immediately ragequit without a word as soon as I said something about it. They didn't even drop during the pull at all, so I don't know why they had to get so assmad over someone joking about their own fuckup.
This is how most of my runs go as tank.
Just be careful who you talk to!
I started a Miqo'te Thaumaturge, you can hardly go wrong with blowing things up when you start out (and no bunnygirls for the poor and unpaying).
At this point, I'd say it's more because most dungeons can be run with AI partners instead, so I'd assume a lot of newer players go for that over having to run with other people because other people are "scary" because expectations and whatever gay shit.
There's various possible factors. If you're on the Dynamis datacenter that's a lower population DC and most people travel to another DC for their queues which has a snowball effect of making queues longer and making more people travel. Alternatively we're in a content drought right now so it's possible a lot of people are taking a break so there's less endgame players who can get paired with beginners in level roulette.
I usallly play with one friend and the AI option is for solo-ers only, which Is weird consdering how party friendly the rest of the game usually is, a "does everyone agree to fill the rest of the party with bots?" option wouldn't feel out of place. But then again it's usually just 5-8 minutes so it's not like I am dying of prolonged boredom out there, or maybe I've just forgotten the wait times in other MMOs.
I always use the queue time for less-played dungeons to do some side content. Yeah, the brown quests themselves might be boring but taking your time and actually reading what everyone is saying does help the world building imo.
It's funny because the new players who are afraid they'll be bad because they don't know boss mechanics are almost certainly going to be better than the usual mongoloids hammering that duty roulette button.
That's in all 3 cities, but Gridania is just in one of the more obvious spots because she's right in the open and not off in some out of the way corner. Limsa especially is out of there because it is entirely inaccessible due to being behind a loading zone to the upper half of the city.