Alliance raid fix?

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Originally Posted by Avoidy

Seems so. Whenever fixing this was brought up around here, a LOT of people would come out to defend their ILVL cheesing bullshit too, so I'm glad the devs fixed it and I'll have fun seeing those people in Orbonne Monastery. :)

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You will think that until you get stuck with someone of my skill level & time out of a roulette because of unending fails. :(

Quite honestly, if they're going to place a 'skill minimum' on playing every aspect of the game, they're going to cut into their player base. If they only want 'the BESTESTEST' skilled players, then the leveling component of the game should have that degree of skill requirement built in. It currently does not (obviously, since even I have made it to current level max).

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Originally Posted by Snapdragyn

You will think that until you get stuck with someone of my skill level & time out of a roulette because of unending fails. :(

Quite honestly, if they're going to place a 'skill minimum' on playing every aspect of the game, they're going to cut into their player base. If they only want 'the BESTESTEST' skilled players, then the leveling component of the game should have that degree of skill requirement built in. It currently does not (obviously, since even I have made it to current level max).

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The content isn’t hard.

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Originally Posted by Zsolen

It would actually be less time consuming to learn how to play.

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ROFL!

You seriously underestimate my ineptitude!

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie-Veil

The content isn’t hard.

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You also underestimate my ineptitude.

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Originally Posted by Snapdragyn

You seriously underestimate my ineptitude!

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We get plenty of skill ranges in raids, not to mention new players who have no idea what's going on. It's not a problem.

You won't get better at the higher level raids if you avoid them and don't get any practice. And those who cheese the roulette system are also preventing other players from getting more practice as well.

Also, you're only one person out of 24. Ineptitude or no, you're not going to cause the raid to fail or endlessly wipe.

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Originally Posted by Fyrebrand

Also, you're only one person out of 24. Ineptitude or no, you're not going to cause the raid to fail or endlessly wipe.

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Yea, I honestly don't understand how people worry so much about alliance raids. Unless you are deliberately going out of your way, alliance raids are the easiest to just keep your head down and be lost in the crowd, if you are worried that your skill level isn't comparable to others. If someone has anxiety about alliance raids, I would have though dungeons would be so much worse? There's no room to hide, when there's only 4 people. Unless it's just the number of people present?

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Originally Posted by PyurBlue

CT still remains the only raid players are directed to and required to complete. While this change may tip the scales slightly, the bias remains squarely focused on CT.

The leveling limitation could be also be a lot more severe than you're anticipating. The problem comes from XP increases and Road to X, if available. It's very easy to reach level 70 in ARR for instance. What happens to Alliance Roulette then? I don't know if this was considered or not. If it was, then OK it's not a problem, but if it was not considered, it's going to be an annoying change.

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If you're already level 70 and just finishing up ARR, you don't really need anymore routes to gain XP since you're way ahead of where you need to be anyway and will only be gaining more with everything you do progressing the MSQ. What happens to the alliance roulette then is that people who are queueing for other things because they are in different places in their own progression might actually get to run Void Ark or Ivalice without waiting hours for the queue to fill.

I'm actually surprised people are so afraid of Nier/Ivalice raids when I see wipes to WoD and LotA constantly. I'm pretty sure 90% of the toxicity I've ever seen in this game was from people being salty af in WoD or LotA haha The player base's true anger will always show the moment someone steps off their platform too early so one alliance can't hit their add.

I can't remember the last wipe I saw in Nier/Ivalice because I always queue as RDM so I can pretty easily cover for anyone's mistakes. Need 6 rezzes on Ultima in Orbonne because most of my alliance just died to the mechanics vomit in the phase transition? I got you.

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Originally Posted by Fyrebrand

I also like to use the roulette to try and naturally fill in Wondrous Tails spaces throughout the week if I can get away with it. But also, I... just like doing Alliance Raids? If I can get a bonus for not being picky about which one, then why not?

And I'm probably queueing on a level 90 job because I like playing that job. That's why it's so overleveled. Plus, more variety in what can come up in roulette. Do people want me to queue on a low level job? Because that's how you get Crystal Tower.

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Yeah exactly. I like running AR, even on my alt. I'm all 90s on my main and run AR every day. And I don't DC hop on the alt so I'm helping contribute to the queue staying populated over on Dynamis.

I also forgot the relic as someone else mentioned. One of my 90s is a DRG so for a time there I was casually gaining light on my ARR relic since the Longinus is one of my favorite DRG weapons in the game. Can't do light gains on another class. And there's only so much Aurum Vale someone can take.

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Originally Posted by Snapdragyn

Quite honestly, if they're going to place a 'skill minimum' on playing every aspect of the game, they're going to cut into their player base. If they only want 'the BESTESTEST' skilled players, then the leveling component of the game should have that degree of skill requirement built in. It currently does not (obviously, since even I have made it to current level max).

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you dont need more than 40 iq to complete an alliance raid, what the hell is this about "the bestestest skilled players" lmao

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Originally Posted by angienessyo

I'm pretty sure 90% of the toxicity I've ever seen in this game was from people being salty af in WoD or LotA

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That place has the most casual toxicity I've ever witnessed. You literally get flamed for delaying the chain on Cerberus, and telling people not to early pull the second boss in LotA will rouse someone to call you a "tryhard". I've literally never seen a more toxic group of players than casuals in Crystal Tower raids, and funnily enough most of the time they are from Dynamis invading Aether :)