New Player with Questions on Que Times

[Angela]

Hey! I've finally got into FFXIV recently and was just curious about que times. I don't mind waiting some time to do things, but I chose tank and was told that they have relatively fast que times for things. I've been progressively doing the Guildhests as they become available to me and have found myself waiting for nearly 5-10 minutes on each one. Is this normal? I take it that Guildhests might not be as popular as other match made content. I am playing on Primal -> Leviathan as my server, should I switch to another server to potentially have better ques? I don't have much of anything on this server to lose, so I'm all ears.

[Aidenel]

Guildhests have pretty slow queue times overall. since they stop at level 40 or so and doesnt give much exp to do.

[Sakhari]

I'm also playing on Leviathan, primarily as a DPS class and while I can't speak to Guildhests specifically, I've only ever had to wait more than 15 minutes on a dungeon/trial queue twice in the last few months. As a tank, as long as you're not playing very late night/early morning and doing more typical group content, you shouldn't have to wait too long for most queues.

[Seera1024]

And a patch just dropped that may be keeping players out of that roulette.

Also may have some players not playing in order to avoid burnout before Endwalker drops in November.

[Rin]

Guildhests stopped being cool like 6 years ago. It's more or less dead content like Levequests (unless you're <level 50). You should really only do Guildhests once unless you like mowing lawns for free except that it takes money and time from you instead.

[TheStrategicRabbit]

Guildhests are really only somewhat ok for the daily roulette, after that they're total wastes of time. Dungeons and trials are where you'll get < 5 minute ques 90% of the time.

[Thiamath]

Guildhests are just dead most of the time because they don't give that much exp later on. Unless you're doing them with 3 other people, I say don't bother. Unless maybe healer have a better que time. Been months since I touched a guildhest so I'm not sure.
Also if you ever change servers because you think the population is too low, make sure to change datacenters. Changing worlds won't make a difference because you're always playing with people from the same datacenter in the duty finder and party finder. You only change worlds if you wanna you wanna get in the same fc as a friend of yours or stuff like that.

[Ms Peaches]

5-10 minutes is a pretty darn good queue time (if you're a dps). Hests are a little odd as far as roulettes go. They're basically mini tutorials on game play basics. They're great learning experiences when you start but since there's really no real incentive to do the roulette people don't really do said roulette so people trying to do it the first time are waiting a little longer till someone doing the mentor roulette pops in.

that being said 5-10 minutes is nothing. I've had wait times of literally two hours with no pop for alliance raids at times. though those were extremely rare occasions.

for dps the average queue time is roughly 30min I think? a lot of people craft and gather while waiting. For tanks it's around 1-5 minutes? and healers are usually instant or a couple seconds in.