Bonus reward for tanking

I caught this on the preview.

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/p....png?51daa1ev1

750 extra bonus gil for roles that are needed in this case tank. In the trailer for 2.1 it showed dps was getting the bonus when the warrior was queuing for low level. On Legacy servers 750 gil is almost nothing, it should be something higher like 50k. If this is suppose to provide incentive for the less played roles to queue up solo because (DR requires solo queue to get bonuses) and not play with their FC or friends, 750 gil isn't much of an incentive and SE should consider raising it.

Obviously their goal is to make queues faster for other solo players on dps jobs, but offering such a small reward will probably not make much difference, or get more tanks to queue up instead of going with their FC.

Damn, you give people an inch..... lol

I'm pretty sure that's just to cover repair gear.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Well that doesn't seem like much of a bonus, since you can basically just craft something and make like 30k in 20 sec of work.

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Running dungeons shouldn't be more profitable than crafting. The money is there as extra incentive, an offset to the repair costs of running dungeons, not as a major form of income.

The real prize is the tomestones.

Probably just clarifying your current role, just like guildhests. So in turn everyone got that 750gil regardless if that's the case.

If not, w/e. Duty Roullette is pretty much when your FC isn't available.

BAHAHAHA 50k?!

Is this what it feels like to be on a legacy server? To need 50 THOUSAND gil to be considered a reward?

I'm just gunna go.

lmao.

The selling point should be the extra 40 tomes....

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Originally Posted by Zumi

I caught this on the preview.

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/p....png?51daa1ev1

Should be somewhat higher if they want to get more tanks to queue for random high level dungeons. I would say 50k seems to be a better number to me. As a tank I never solo queue for dungeons because I rather get myth cap done fast with 10 min runs with FC people. Solo queuing is required for duty roulette.

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Again, this is more for the casual players. There's no way SE could prevent a group of decked out players from finishing a dungeon in super fast time. After all, you guys have earned those high lvl armors and weapons so you're entitled to finishing dungeons quicker than someone with lesser gears. This duty roulette reward is aimed more towards the newbie tanks in AF1 gears who can't quite do speedrun wp just yet. 40 myth tomes is a lot to him.

Wait, there's an extra 40myth tomes?

I would have to agree that the bonus would be to cover repair costs. Tanking is not the most difficult role to play. It doesn't deserve more than everyone else.

to clarify: the reward is not specifically for rolling a tank, but for rolling the role that is currently in highest demand. though that usually is the tank, this can always switch (less likely to be a dps :P)

iirc it's also depending on how highly in demand it is for the specific run. (like for example let's say Stone Vigil has a tank/healer/DPS ratio of 1:5:20 and Brayflox has a ratio of 1:1:10 then the tank is more 'in demand' for stone vigil and would get more there. that's how I understood it, anyway, but the healer would have a better ratio in Brayflox)


that being said I doubt it will truely make more people actually roll a tank (aka consider that their 'main' and use it for harder content)
it will just mean people will queue for tanks for the runs with the worst ratio (if it's depending on ratio) and play their 'main' class for endgame.

in the end people will only play tanks and healer if it's fun, and comparing the tank/healer/dps ratio in this game with most MMOs I've played in the past, it's a lot worse with tanks. people simply don't want to play tanks. not sure if that is 100% related to the tanking itself, though, since quite a few people love to yell and call the tanks names as soon as they do a teeny tiny mistake in sastasha :rolleyes: