Feedback on Alliance Raid Roulette's Content Pool

Dear FFXIV Development Team, :o

I would like to submit some feedback regarding the update to the Alliance Raid Roulette. While the implementation of an item level requirement is a good step towards improving raid quality, I feel it has not fully addressed the underlying issue of roulette content distribution.

Players who use the roulette consistently find themselves assigned to A Realm Reborn content, which can lead to a sense of monotony. My assumption is that this is due to a significant portion of the player base having not unlocked the later alliance raids from expansions like Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers, as these raids are optional for main story progression.

To create a more balanced and varied roulette experience for all players, I would like to suggest a new prerequisite for unlocking the Alliance Raid Roulette. It would be beneficial to require players to have unlocked the most recent available alliance raid for their level. This change could encourage more players to engage with the full range of alliance raid content, thus diversifying the roulette pool and improving the overall player experience.

Thank you for your consideration. ;)

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Originally Posted by Blue_Planet

Players who use the roulette consistently find themselves assigned to A Realm Reborn content, which can lead to a sense of monotony. My assumption is that this is due to a significant portion of the player base having not unlocked the later alliance raids from expansions like Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers, as these raids are optional for main story progression.

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90% of the time I get Crystal Tower in the Alliance Raid roulette, there is either a first-timer or someone under Lv.60.

The former are one of the reasons the roulette exists in the first place. The latter couldn't do any of the other raids even if they wanted to.

I support this as well. I'm all for people skipping optional content if they choose, but this is messing with the function of the roulette itself, notably that new players trying to get into Mhach, Ivalice, Nier or Myths have a very hard time actually having their queues pop. I see that happen all the time notably on Novice Network.

ARR alli raids should be in msq rolo in the first place, also putting requirement for players to unlock all avaliable duties to them (kinda like expert) would help, some ppl just refuse to unlock content.

i dont do a-raid roulette anymore. for quite some time actually.

this means i dont help to fill any group.


i agree to anything to make this roulette more divers

I think the solution right now is just let us use level 100 rotation. If it power creep, then let it power creep

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Originally Posted by AmiableApkallu

90% of the time I get Crystal Tower in the Alliance Raid roulette, there is either a first-timer or someone under Lv.60.

The former are one of the reasons the roulette exists in the first place. The latter couldn't do any of the other raids even if they wanted to.

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This has been my exact experience. Correct me if I'm wrong, but none of the other raids are required except the ARR ones for MSQ. This might be the issue here.

The iLVL fix was *a* solution, just not *the* solution. It was the sort of thing you'd implement after you'd secured players being made to unlock the other raids.
The fix is simple enough.
When you are at a point in game, whether via progress or skip potion, Alliance Raid Roulette is locked like Expert Roulette until the following pre-requisites are met:

"Beyond the Great Wall" - Alliance Raid Roulette is locked until the completion of Dun Scaith
"The Syrcus Trench" - Alliance Raid Roulette is locked until the completion of The Orbonne Monastery
"The Next Ship To Sail" - Alliance Raid Roulette is locked until the completion of The Tower At Paradigm's Breach
"A New World To Explore" - Alliance Raid Roulette is locked until the completion of Thaleia

I don't follow the opinion of some players who believe CT should be removed from Alliance Raid Roulette and moved to MSQ Roulette, as I think it does help new players, alts or people that may be revisiting older relic content, but it 100% mustn't be allowed to remain a deja vu exp farm.

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Originally Posted by Bloodbeat

The iLVL fix was *a* solution, just not *the* solution. It was the sort of thing you'd implement after you'd secured players being made to unlock the other raids.
The fix is simple enough.
When you are at a point in game, whether via progress or skip potion, Alliance Raid Roulette is locked like Expert Roulette until the following pre-requisites are met:

"Beyond the Great Wall" - Alliance Raid Roulette is locked until the completion of Dun Scaith
"The Syrcus Trench" - Alliance Raid Roulette is locked until the completion of The Orbonne Monastery
"The Next Ship To Sail" - Alliance Raid Roulette is locked until the completion of The Tower At Paradigm's Breach
"A New World To Explore" - Alliance Raid Roulette is locked until the completion of Thaleia

I don't follow the opinion of some players who believe CT should be removed from Alliance Raid Roulette and moved to MSQ Roulette, as I think it does help new players, alts or people that may be revisiting older relic content, but it 100% mustn't be allowed to remain a deja vu exp farm.

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I mostly agree but I don't think it's necessary to lock them out of DR until they complete an entire tier; it would probably be sufficient to require them to unlock the first raid of each tier. Some (enough?) people will continue on to the second and third raids of the tier just because they unlocked the first one.

The lock should not be story-based but it should just lock any time you're on a job that is high enough level to do a new raid tier but don't have the first raid unlocked. That is, a person playing a Lv80 job should be locked out of DR if they don't have Labyrinth (50), Void Ark (60), Rabanastre (70), and Factory (80) unlocked. Dropping to a Lv60 job should require them to have Labyrinth and Void Ark.

"But what if they're not far enough in the MSQ to unlock the next alliance raid"
Then they don't need the xp from roulette on that job which is already super overleveled. If they wanna run roulette they can switch to a lower level job.

atleast ARR raids are fast