Praetorium is dead, long live Praetorium

According to the Letter from the Producer, not only is Trust functionality being added to ARR MSQ, but Meridianum and Praetorium are being downgraded from full party to light party.

Also, apparently Ultima Weapon is being decoupled from the Praetorium into a trial? Unless I misunderstood? (EDIT: I did misunderstand, it's Lahabrea that's being decoupled)

No more mass-leaving Meridianum and no more DCing healers in Praetorium!

Praetorium is dead! Long live the new Praetorium!

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

Also, apparently Ultima Weapon is being decoupled from the Praetorium into a trial? Unless I misunderstood?

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I believe that fight is still part of the dungeon, only as a light party instance. The fight that is separated is Lahabrea, which will be a quest duty, like Cape Westwind.

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Originally Posted by linayar

I believe that fight is still part of the dungeon, only as a light party instance. The fight that is separated is Lahabrea, which will be a quest duty, like Cape Westwind.

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Still! Very exciting! 1-50 leveling will now go by in less than an hour at this rate!

it definitely sounded to me like it would be Cape Westwind (solo duty), Castrum Meridianum (4 player dungeon), Praetorium (4 player dungeon), Ultima Weapon (4 player trial), Lahabrea (solo duty)

Good. No more MSR outcries.

hopefully!

Unironically excited this is finally happening.

but what about my XP and my Tomes. Such devastation, this was surely not their intention?

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Originally Posted by NailBach

but what about my XP and my Tomes. Such devastation, this was surely not their intention?

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Definitely want to hear what their plans are with MSQ roulette. If they adjust it so it's the 4 man versions, are they modifying the number of cutscenes? And if so, I imagine they would need to massively drop the rewards.

If this affects Mentor Roulette as well, then praise the Twelves!

One thing I'd love to see in addition to trusts that I really hope they one day implement is being able to do a trust party with friends. Like if me and one other person want to do a dungeon together we could have the option to fill in the other two slots with trust members. Or if there's three of us, just take one trust member.

Mostly I want to do this because some of the earlier content is very easy and some of my friends have lamented how much parties tend to blaze through it and wanted to experience the game in a more appropriate manner. Trusts go a long way to fixing this, but being able to do a mix of playing with a couple friends and trust filling in while doing things at min ilvl would be neat.