Alliance Raid roulette - what did you get?

Crystal Tower is still predominately stronger but it's a little more varied than it use to be.

Between my main and an alt, both done with a job at 90, I got:

2x Syrcus Tower
2x World of Darkness
1x Weeping City of Mhach
1x Dun Scaith
1x Rabanastre
1x Copied Factory
1x Paradigm's Breach
1x Euphrosyne

Way more varied than usual, even though I got the expected fair amount of CT. I'm just glad I don't get to see a random catgirl's health shoot up the instant I load into LotA anymore

All as 90 machinist, I've had two Aglaia, a Paradigm's Breach, a Ridoranna, and a Dun Scaith.

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Originally Posted by Darkobra

I got it again today. 10 people left seeing they got crystal tower.

Told you all nothing would change because crystal tower was mandatory.

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It Is actually funny to see people rage quit crystal tower.

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Originally Posted by Eastwall

It Is actually funny to see people rage quit crystal tower.

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I'd rather do a CT run in 15 mins than wait 30 mins of penalty just to potentially get CT again /shrug

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Originally Posted by Darkobra

I got it again today. 10 people left seeing they got crystal tower.

Told you all nothing would change because crystal tower was mandatory.

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We all knew it wouldn't impact the frequency of getting Crystal Tower. That wasn't the point of the change. It was to eliminate ilevel cheesing; getting Crystal Tower not because a sprout/first timer queued for their MSQ but because a lazy level 90 stripped naked to guarantee content where they could auto attack for 15m. Statistically it should also have the added effect of making queues for all the other alliance raids shorter. They also improved the scaling of rewards so you are remunerated for the time investment in a higher level alliance raid. All in all it's a good change.

I had stopped running alliance roulette for a long time, but I've done it for 3 days this week and got World of Darkness 1x, Aglaia 1x and Paradigm's Breach 1x.

So far I've had
1 Aglaia
2 Euphrosyne
2 Weeping City
1 Orbonne
1 Ridorana
1 Paradigm Tower
1 Puppet's bunker

I'd say so far this has been great.

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Originally Posted by Caro178

We all knew it wouldn't impact the frequency of getting Crystal Tower. That wasn't the point of the change. It was to eliminate ilevel cheesing; getting Crystal Tower not because a sprout/first timer queued for their MSQ but because a lazy level 90 stripped naked to guarantee content where they could auto attack for 15m. Statistically it should also have the added effect of making queues for all the other alliance raids shorter. They also improved the scaling of rewards so you are remunerated for the time investment in a higher level alliance raid. All in all it's a good change.

I had stopped running alliance roulette for a long time, but I've done it for 3 days this week and got World of Darkness 1x, Aglaia 1x and Paradigm's Breach 1x.

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However, people who stripped down got the blame for the crystal tower frequency. My point was that they were never a statistic. Unless 23 other people also stripped down...

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Originally Posted by Darkobra

However, people who stripped down got the blame for the crystal tower frequency. My point was that they were never a statistic. Unless 23 other people also stripped down...

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I personally feel fine knowing with 100% certainty that if I get Crystal Tower now it's because someone actively queued for it. It's not because ilevel cheesers made it impossible for the roulette to pick anything else. iLevel cheesers were an easy scapegoat, it's true, but the roulette actually fulfilling its purpose by matching players with others trying to complete specific content for the first time is exactly what we want. The added bonuses that actually make the 30-40 minute 70+ raids rewarding for the time investment are a wonderful addition.

Me personally I can't ever recall seeing iLvL cheezing in the first place. Every time I ended up in Crystal Tower I was always seeing one to 3 people in cutscene.