Low Level Duty Roulette - Default to highest dungeon?

There really isn't anything SE can do aside from narrow the possibilities of what to end up in. The Roulette isn't really that random, there are just more people queuing up for the storyline dungeons than there are queuing up for the non-required dungeons. After all, the gear in those dungeons are not at all necessary for the main scenario quests.

I pretty much always get sastasha with a halatali now and then

I got HM tonight. I was confused!

Low level duties are a light party made of 4 up to lvl48 dungeons

I love the Duty roulette. I do not like Fates too much and running these dungeons at random is a great boost for experience and leveling and a welcome change. The only downside I see is that some of the lower level players are sometimes carried through the content without ever knowing that it can be harder if everybody is on their level.

Two days ago, I was grouped in a Titan run (normal story mode) and there was one guy at the level who needed the quest, 2 guys in full relic, DL and myth gear and my mighty level 45 bard lol. The fight took three minutes and the guy said he can’t believe it. He tried it a dozen times and all the times he wiped. Truth is, it was that easy because of the rest of the party. Next dungeon he faces without Level 50 player help will be more challenging so I am not sure if it is really helping that much.

But still it is kinda helpful, people play quests again they normally refuse to play and people who need to play the quest to level up or to proceed in story mode do not need to wait forever till they have a party together. People who help either receive a great EXP boost or receive philo and myth tomes even for low level quests so in all it is a win-win situation.

One question...
Has anyone ended up with a party where all 4 has entered through Duty Roulette? Or has it always been at least one person that have queued up through the Duty Finder (level can't tell you this)? (I can imagine that the Duty Roulette starts matching together parties from Duty Roulette only, if there is nothing to fill up in the Duty Finder queue, but have yet to see this happen myself)
A high level may queue up with the duty finder for low level dungeons in order to get gear for their alt classes...

(Myself I've only gotten Tam-Tara, Copperbell and baby Ifrit so far from the low level duty roulette)

Ummm... The greater the difference between your level and the duty level the more experience you earn. I just Copperbell Mines with my level 47 WHM and earned 204,402 exp on top of the normal completion bonus.

It put me in Cutter's Cry the first time I used it. And the player it grouped me with was doing it for the first time. I am sure that's the purpose. To mix older, more experienced players with players attempting a dungeon for the first time.

It appears random enough. The most likely reason lower level dungeons come up more is because those players are still using the free 30 day trial. Once the trial is over I'm sure many players quit and move on.

I get sastasha more often than not. Copperbell second place, tamtara, then Ifrit. I love when I get Ifrit... It should always be that one :D

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Originally Posted by TomTom1968

... The only downside I see is that some of the lower level players are sometimes carried through the content without ever knowing that it can be harder if everybody is on their level.

Two days ago, I was grouped in a Titan run (normal story mode) and there was one guy at the level who needed the quest, 2 guys in full relic, DL and myth gear and my mighty level 45 bard lol. The fight took three minutes and the guy said he can’t believe it. He tried it a dozen times and all the times he wiped. Truth is, it was that easy because of the rest of the party. Next dungeon he faces without Level 50 player help will be more challenging so I am not sure if it is really helping that much. ...

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May have been fast because of the group he actually got, but it was easy because it was with experienced players rather than players who were on the same experience level as him.

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

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The first time I used Low Level DR, it put me in NM Ifrit with three other level 50s using the roulette. It made for a good laugh and the easiest 100 tomes I ever earned. xD

Honestly, I think a lot of it has to do with, what role you cue as, what level that role is, and how you cue.

Example:

I ALWAYS cue as Lvl 50 WHM/join party in progress when I do the Low Dungeon Roulette. (I do this because 'hey, I'm here to help anyway, might as well join people who got left/stuck/dc'd)

Anyway...since technically, the only native healer role pre level 30 is CNJ, (ACN doesn't unlock SCH until 30) that means healers are sorely needed in the pre level 30 dungeons.
So if you cue as a Healer (SCH/WHM/CNJ) at any level, you are most likely going to see the storyline specific level 15-29ish instances.

Due to this...I have had Satasha all but 3 times. The other 3 times, I have gotten Tam-tara, Ifrit, and Helatai.

Now tanks, while they will still see their fair share of newbie dungeons, they will also find times where they will cue regularly into the level 30-50 instances...this is because by level 30, tanks replace healer as the 'in short supply' role.

DPS...you have the longest wait, but you also have the best chance of seeing some variety. Although that said, I'm willing to bet that if you cue 'join party in progress' you are far less likely to see battles like Story Ifrit, and more likely to see Brayfox, Stronghold etc. Ranged roles might also be cuing more often in low level dungeons now that PGL/LNC are more popular to play (being leveled by more ppl) and people leveling BRD/BLM/ACN are slightly less represented low level, and over-represented mid-high level (as these were some of last patch's 'flavor of the month'). I say this because YP already explained that the DF system tries to pair 1 ranged and 1 melee in every party....so if PGL/MNK are being leveled more often in low level instances, you as a BRD cuing up, are more likely to see a low level instance as well...but PGL's have better luck seeing the 30+ dungeons. (My husband a Monk gets Ifrit/Quarn/Copperbell and such a lot...and rarely if ever gets the 'starter 3')

I have done low level DR every day since the patch. I have gotten Ifrit once, Tam Tara twice, Halatali twice, and Copperbell every other time (so what is that 10?). Twice I've gotten Copperbell with every other member 30+. Seems kind of strange, I too would wish if everyone was in their 30's to at least default to something in the 30s. I understand the random element of the DR, but I do seem to think it predominately chooses Copperbell.

I was queueing mostly when I was levelling up my SCH to 50 and CNJ to 34. I am now levelling my MRD which is 21 and I've gotten Copperbell once with him so no surprise there.

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Originally Posted by TomTom1968

Two days ago, I was grouped in a Titan run (normal story mode) and there was one guy at the level who needed the quest, 2 guys in full relic, DL and myth gear and my mighty level 45 bard lol. The fight took three minutes and the guy said he can’t believe it. He tried it a dozen times and all the times he wiped. Truth is, it was that easy because of the rest of the party. Next dungeon he faces without Level 50 player help will be more challenging so I am not sure if it is really helping that much.

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He was probably being grouped with high level players for most of those attempts. And most likely on many of those runs when someone messed up and made a mistake, they rage quit.