Suggestion regarding Duty Finder Roulette - Mid level

Has there been any rumblings about the possibility of a Duty Finder Roulette - Mid level?

I don't really mind going back and doing pre-30 content, but I could be much more valuable in them using a Class with a full cross class ability list than a very limited Job missing all it's job skills. The problem is that I don't know if the low level roulette will choose a pre-30 or post-30 dungeon at the time I select my class.

So my suggestion would be another roulette for dungeons after haukke but before end-game. This way I could queue as a Dragoon in there, but as a lancer in the low level range.

thoughts?

It would mean the death of really low level instances, for new players, I guess.

For me the really low level dungeons are really boring due to lack of available skills, like you said.. ugh.

I would prefer we had access to all of our skill-set but the gear-stats/hp/mp/stats be reduced as they are now.
Then I wouldn't get mind-numbingly bored in Sastasha.

What do you say about that ?

They are already planning to address this with patch 2.15.

Basically they plan to attempt to balance out the roulette and to push higher level players into the higher level dungeons more often.

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Originally Posted by GabrielK

It would mean the death of really low level instances, for new players, I guess.

For me the really low level dungeons are really boring due to lack of available skills, like you said.. ugh.

I would prefer we had access to all of our skill-set but the gear-stats/hp/mp/stats be reduced as they are now.
Then I wouldn't get mind-numbingly bored in Sastasha.

What do you say about that ?

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The problem is that those dungeons were designed with the skills available at that level. Imagine being a 48 BLM dropping into Sastasha with a fresh level 15 GLA for a Tank, you'd be dropping massive Fire/Fire III hits that the poor GLA couldn't possibly keep up.

they are going to be fixing it so you dont get sastasha and copperbell all the time.

I would not mind a roulette option that randomly selects from all dungeons from the player's level and below. It would also help out all the mid-level players trying to clear a dungeon if higher level players with more experience got into their group via roulette. Imagine Qarn a few months ago. It would have been a lot easier to get a group via duty finder since no one would be trying to avoid it like the plague.

Search is your friend.

I must be the only one actually getting a decent selection. I've got Titan, Qarn, Cutter, AV twice. Just last night I got Brayflox. I must be the only one this happens to.

lucky you Copperbell/Satasha idk how often Ifrit 3x and haukke once since DR began

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Originally Posted by Xanros

I would not mind a roulette option that randomly selects from all dungeons from the player's level and below.

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I like this idea.

Perhaps I need to edit the original post. Not a single one of the responses appear to have understood it properly.

I understood it. It's just that my experience hasn't been the same as yours.

My guess is you won't see a mid-level roulette for two reasons: they don't want to provide another easy tome source, and they don't want people to stop doing the low level one. The reason they added it was to help new low levels complete early content. That's its purpose.

Another thing would be to have an option to change to a class or job depending on the level range of the dungeon. If you queued up as a Dragoon or Lancer, you can only change between the two. I know changing classes/jobs is against everything that is holy in SE's world. But it would be nice, once everyone was inside the dungeon and done watching the cutscenes, if there was a 10-15 second window where everyone was still locked in the beginning ring where you could swap job/class. That would eliminate the problem without adding a second roulette.

Just the ramblings of a mad man.

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Originally Posted by Naberrie

I must be the only one actually getting a decent selection. I've got Titan, Qarn, Cutter, AV twice. Just last night I got Brayflox. I must be the only one this happens to.

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Except for Titan once, I've never gotten anything higher than Halatali since Roulette's inception. It is almost always Copperbell for me, and sometimes it has all Lv50s in it too. I want your Roulette. ; ;

While I would love to get a Mid level DR it would potentially make the low level a ghost town especially on servers where most of the players are above 30. As it stands its ok seeing as the boss exp and bonus scales with difficulty with Satsaha giving the most exp upon beating the boss and from there gets progressively lower. Though one could argue that the mob kills and boss basically even up at some point. But nothing beats getting 200k+ from ifrit in just 8 mins.

I think the roulette should randomly put players together and then select the highest level dungeon that group of players can run.

So if you have 4 players, level 45, 38, 35, and 16 - then sastasha seems the obvious choice. If you have 4 players at level 45, 38, 35 and 32 then I don't see any reason it shouldn't put that group into Brayflox. However, I've had many roulettes where all of the players were above level 30, in jobs, and still placed in sastasha. This seems senseless to me.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

they are going to be fixing it so you dont get sastasha and copperbell all the time.

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THANK THE TWELVE

Seriously, when I get something other than a starter dungeon from the low level roulette, it gives me the same level of happiness as I'd get from winning a primal drop.

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Originally Posted by Marxam

While I would love to get a Mid level DR it would potentially make the low level a ghost town

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Why would it?
Any level 50s running it now for Tomes, when still run it, if it keeps the same payout.
I would think it would be the same for pre-50s, who are running it for xp. Actually more likely for them, since the bonus xp amount scales with how over leveled you are for the Dungeon. Only real change is you wouldn't get people running as jobs in the low level one.

I agree that there needs to be a Mid-level DR that includes all 30+ Dungeons.

Also I think that Cape Westwind, should join all the other 8-man main story quests. In the Main Story DR.