Why don't we have a normal raid roulette Yet?

Have they ever said why they dont have one yet?

I queued up for Alex 1 normal and had to afk for an hour and came back up to see this.

https://image.ibb.co/byXHQn/ffxiv_02112018_222001.png

This is on an alt so it should have first time priority bonus.

Most people can't clear coils on unsync in pf I'd hate to see them try synced with df randoms.

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Originally Posted by Texa

Most people can't clear coils on unsync in pf I'd hate to see them try synced with df randoms.

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Talking about the normal raids like Alexander 1-12 normal and eventually the Omega normal tier raids that are basically trial roulette difficulty not coils

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Originally Posted by Rita1989

Talking about the normal raids like Alexander 1-12 normal and eventually the Omega normal tier raids that are basically trial roulette difficulty not coils

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Coils are normal raids. The first ones.

Standard raid roulette would be interesting to see though.

It took them years to actually add in Raid Roulette, so... give it time, I suppose. They've definitely mentioned it at least once before.

Realistically I suspect that they originally expected Mentor Roulette would take care of this, alliance raids, EX Primals, etc. but then they went and forgot to give mentors proper incentive to actually queue for the thing beyond the ridiculous mount.


Edit: Calling Coil "normal raids" is disingenuous as all hell. :rolleyes:

Why would I bother doing it?

I mean, I already ignore 50/60, leveling, main scenario (did before the change, too) alliance, and level 70. They've run out of ways to bribe people to do things. I don't need creation nor poetics, and I don't even care for zhloe at this point. They needed to have a relic that used tomes in order to get us to help out; they were incompetent and delayed it too long.

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

Coils are normal raids. The first ones.

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Coils are closer to what savage raids are now, they introduced the normal raids because coil was too difficult for most of the community.

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Originally Posted by RiyahArp

Why would I bother doing it?

I mean, I already ignore 50/60, leveling, main scenario (did before the change, too) alliance, and level 70. They've run out of ways to bribe people to do things. I don't need creation nor poetics, and I don't even care for zhloe at this point. They needed to have a relic that used tomes in order to get us to help out; they were incompetent and delayed it too long.

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Well to me it'd be just like Trial roulette, which I gladly enjoy doing. Instead of going through a dungeon, you're just doing maybe a few trash mobs then 1 battle with a boss. Sounds like a good roulette to me. Coil might have to be excluded though, since the "Normal" version is technically "Savage" and that'd turn a lot of people off I'm sure. Even if coil was in, I wouldn't mind it though. :P

To answer your question, OP, it's more or less a difference between NA/EU and the JP datacentres. From what I understand, JP tend to exclusively use Raid Finder/Duty Roulette for both normal and Savage raids, whereas we in the West utilize the PF. There is a Raid Finder option, though that is for Savage runs. Even if a raid roulette, as you are wanting, were to be added, it won't see much use like the alliance raids would. Western players have a preference for certain party comps and having unsynced runs. If you want Alex runs, you'd be better off just sticking to PF, though even then, people that join will more often than not want to do it unsynced.

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Originally Posted by Rita1989

Coils are closer to what savage raids are now, they introduced the normal raids because coil was too difficult for most of the community.

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Just because they had a higher degree of difficulty compared to more recent raids, they're still normal raids. Hard, yes, but they have normal mode and savage mode just like the other standard raids.