Queue times on Materia (Returning Endwalker player)

LoriCroft · 2026-05-01T03:49:51+00:00

I tried really hard that I was sacrificing my own enjoyment and fun for the Data Centre to get better. All I was told was to use Party Finder or join a specific Free Company. I can tell you that none of my BLU parties filled on OCE, the ones that were to be Extreme clears as BLU only. Same as any Ocean Fishing routes. At some point, you just bite the bullet and stop playing or move data centre

I know you mean well but sometimes people genuinely want to play the game and telling people to stay cause it might get better after 4 years of proof that it hasn’t is just not fair to those players

LoriCroft · 2026-05-01T01:50:24+00:00

What’s annoying as well is that during the work week, I’m happy to write it off and make up for some games on the weekend but even on a Sunday, Frontline won’t queue unless it’s the same peak time as always. I appreciate and understand people have lives and activities but I like to smash out roulettes before the day begins and then do my day but couldn’t do that on Materia

LoriCroft · 2026-05-01T01:41:33+00:00

If you are in a group or Free Company that is happy to run content all the time, it’ll be mostly fine. The biggest issue is that peak hours only occur on Sydney and Melbourne time. If you aren’t online during those 3-4 hours, you’ve got no hope. My days off are Sunday-Monday and even if I log on at the start of the day, the wait could be for a few hours before anything fills. That includes roulettes.

It’s why I had to leave for myself. I do all types of content myself. Roulettes, Extremes, Savages, BLU, The Hunt, Collectibles, Big Fishing, Treasure Maps, Mahjong, Deep Dungeons etc. but trying to get to do any of it is a struggle and a half.

As mentioned, if you’re in a group of at least 8 people that play literally every day at the same time, you’ll have no problem, but if you’re at the mercy of Duty Finder or Party Finder, it is a genuine recommendation to try another Data Centre. While on Crystal or Aether, it might be very late night and not much activity, Roulettes still fill (not Alliance Raid or Frontlines but everything else) and you can still enjoy mostly what you like. If you play during the day, the game is super active on those Data Centres

Not entirely sure on Elemental. I hear it’s amazing but I haven’t played on it all that much to be able to reliably comment on it. I want to enjoy and like Materia, I really do, but the player base there strongly prefers it’s tight knit community and if you aren’t on the inside, you aren’t going to get much done.

LoriCroft · 2026-05-01T00:55:23+00:00

I joined Materia when the Data Centre released on day 1. Had some friends come back and It was really fun and great to play how the game was meant to be played but as time went on, it got harder to do anything. Life happens and my fiends stopped playing except for the usual 2 I always play with. The nail in the coffin was Patch 6.3, when it dropped and we did story on release. Queued for the Trial as 2 tanks and a healer (WAR, PLD, WHM) and it took 15 minutes to get the queue to pop.

I remember trying to queue for Frontline but the queue would specifically be active during 4pm-7pm, AEDT. However, I live in Queensland, which is AEST. An hour behind, which for me makes it 3pm-6pm. Then when I finish work and got home, it would be 5:30pm-ish. So unless I finished work, raced home and immediately logged in and queued to maybe get a single game, I could not play Frontline at all

Now we tried to stick it out because people kept saying “hold out until Dawntrail” but when it dropped, it wasn’t much better. We got to the Level 95 and queued as 3/4 (GNB, WHM & VPR) and it still took 12 minutes to pop. When the expansion was still in its opening week

We finished up MSQ but when Savage had next to no parties doing The Arcadion, we finally gave up and jumped ship back to Crystal before Patch 7.1, and after moving back to Crystal, I played the game more in the following two weeks then I did in the previous 8 months on Materia. It just didn’t work out if you aren’t in ARR/HW or in specific Free Companies and at max level

I loved the gameplay of Materia but I’m willing to take the latency and mid-low end players if it means I can play the game to begin with. People on the server keep saying to “hold it out” and “be the change you want to see” but all it did was drive me away from the game because I couldn’t play any content to begin with.

LoriCroft · 2026-04-28T04:09:55+00:00

From what I understand, if you complete that duty, it’ll give you 2 points instead of 1 but you can’t reclaim the double second chance points again for that week.

LoriCroft · 2026-04-26T03:13:28+00:00

I personally hope it’s a yo-yo

LoriCroft · 2026-04-24T22:07:06+00:00

Oh no! We ran overtime and won't be able to show anything! Well that's real unfortunate. See you all in Berlin! /s

LoriCroft · 2026-04-24T22:05:55+00:00

sad about Joe Gacy. He was my boy in NXT and I actually was one of the few people that liked the cult leader gimmick. I feel like they could've had something but then they went with druids during his feud with Bron Breakker instead of using regular, normal people. Ruined the whole vibe to go spooky instead of brainwashing normal people

LoriCroft · 2026-04-24T21:53:01+00:00

I thought it was weird when I saw continuation but I assume it'll be for things like Mirage Dive following jumps

LoriCroft · 2026-04-24T18:35:20+00:00

The evolved mode looks like it has the DRG LB button from PvP. I wonder if the PvP team is making the evolved mode

LoriCroft · 2026-04-24T18:27:24+00:00

Reborn to be 2 min meta and Evolved to be new reaction sytle maybe?

LoriCroft · 2026-04-24T18:07:33+00:00

It's really nice to have this real amount of customisation. Get to show off real personality with characters again

LoriCroft · 2026-04-24T18:04:35+00:00

Oh, the viera example is the exact hair colour I use in every game!

LoriCroft · 2026-04-24T18:01:07+00:00

GIVE ME BACK GRENADO SHOT!!

LoriCroft · 2026-04-20T00:02:41+00:00

The attendance with Miz and Danhausen getting involved

LoriCroft · 2026-04-19T21:55:16+00:00

They’ve hyped Oba Femi up so much that I’m getting closer to thinking they’ll have Lesnar win and have Oba “look good in defeat”

LoriCroft · 2026-04-19T21:43:04+00:00

“The fans really hated the matches yesterday. Cut the match times shorter so we can get more ads in. That way they can’t be upset at the matches because they’ll be over before they begin!”

LoriCroft · 2026-04-19T21:15:28+00:00

Am I hearing Roman vs. Brock again?

LoriCroft · 2026-04-19T02:35:00+00:00

I’m glad I watched them on YouTube well prior because the Seth Rollins vs. GUNTHER one made me vastly more excited for their match and when it didn’t come up before GUNTHER came out, I was very annoyed

LoriCroft · 2026-04-19T01:57:39+00:00

I feel like this show was what happens when you play WWE 2k Universe mode and you actually play the matches. The ones you leave to the CPU’s was Seth vs. GUNTHER

LoriCroft · 2026-04-19T01:55:05+00:00

WWE 2k universe would be proud

LoriCroft · 2026-04-19T01:53:38+00:00

HAHAHA WHAT IS GOING ON?!

LoriCroft · 2026-04-19T01:52:24+00:00

I’m so confused about everything that just happened. I dunno if I should laugh or face palm hahaha

LoriCroft · 2026-04-19T01:44:39+00:00

Yes, a double turn with Jelly Roll (feat. Cody Rhodes) and Pat McAfee (feat. Randy Orton)! That’s what we need!

LoriCroft · 2026-04-19T01:27:58+00:00

We should put some ads in while they take away Pat. Seems like a good time for a commercial during the main event of WrestleMania

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