It is probably just me, but..

Is the roulette system rigged? I've gotten Tam Tara Deepcroft as a low level roulette for nearly a week and a half. Sorry if I come across as a whiner, but I would really like some more variety to what I get in roulette, and getting Tam Tara consecutively is really making me hate that place with a passion. It is getting to the point where I just want to up and leave, and I really do not want to do that to anyone...But I am getting there. Lol

Lots of people leveling new classes + lots of new players since ps4 launch = lots of people who are queuing specifically for Tam tara/Copperhell/sastasha to level up/complete quests.

That does make sense, however I do not even get the other two >< Fluctuation between the three would be fine, just not the SAME dungeon for a solid week and a half.

Could be worse, could be sunken temple.

I had the same thing happen a couple months back, got tam tara for over a week straight. Yeah it's annoying, but that's what roulette is for. Pushing content that people don't necessarily want to play. Just give it time, you'll get something fresh soon.

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Originally Posted by Kerberon

Could be worse, could be sunken temple.

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xD, at this point, I would rather that then another Tam Tara run.

It is rigged, in a sense. The point of the roulette is not that it picks something completely at random. It matches you up with someone who has picked something specific in the DF and is waiting for other players. So whatever other people need to clear the most is what you're going to see the most.

I consistently get Toto-Rak. And if I don't get Toto-Rak, it's Tam Tara. A lot of the times there aren't any new players, either. Not quite sure why it is.

You don't actually get a random dungeon. If randomizes you to a dungeon based on the current dungeon demand.

For example. If we have 10 people in queue for dungeons, but all are queued for Sastasha. (think 10 DPS all queuing for this dungeon all looking for tanks or healers)
If you, as a tank in this example, try to queue it will see 5 groups queuing for sastasha and no other dungeons so it will put you into sastasha.

With that in mind remember that players in low level roulette are most often leveling side jobs or they are new players. So the earliest dungeons will pop up more often.

I got sunken temple with a level 43 paladin who never used flash and I had to tank everything as a healer.
worst run of my life, would love to get tam tara. at least I can survive tanking them there

priority for roulette is - if alot of players are specifically queuing for one particular dungeon, that's where you get placed alot if needed - if you are not needed in a specifically queued dungeon, then its completely random placement from any of the low dungeons based on who in the queue at the time is eligible - IE: if only lvl 30s are next in the queue, you get placed in any lvl30 or below dungeon IF they need you - if everyone next in the queue is max level, its supposed to be a random placement for you all in ANY low lvl dungeon.

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Originally Posted by Kiara1

I got sunken temple with a level 43 paladin who never used flash

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could be worse, I ran a stone vigil with a 45 scholor who never used adlo/succor, on the grounds of "idk what they do"

I do Duty Roulette main scenario as tank or healer. I do that to make sure that the first timers get to see their cut scenes. More often than not there is no one new (28 of the last 30 runs or so) and it goes plenty quick and get more myths than duty roulette low-level it seems. Actually took like over 30 tries before I got actually run thru Praetorium without some clown trying to start the bosses while people were watching the cut scenes and actually got to play thru it like it was intended and saw the flow of the whole thing. The first-timers were all happy to have seen all the bits they could see and they were like completely in awe of all the stuff they were seeing for the first time and making all sorts of happy ooh and aah comments and such.

So if you don't want to Totorak one more time, try main scenario and if you have the fortune of helping a first-timer do make sure that they get to see the cutscenes.

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Originally Posted by Kiara1

I got sunken temple with a level 43 paladin who never used flash and I had to tank everything as a healer.
worst run of my life, would love to get tam tara. at least I can survive tanking them there

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Probably with the paladin I got 10 levels earlier in Brayflox that never used flash. I left that party after the second time my dead body hit the floor. I really just don't get how some of these people level past their first dungeon without getting even a MODERATE clue about how to do their job.

Tam tara and toto rak, both with Ts and weird names.
Hmmmmm i sense something amiss with the low level DR.
The day i get Q'd into a group where everyone is 50 is the day i'll just go and say fk it guys let's SR these dungeons.
Technically once the blm has the aoe sleep, you can just do a massive pull and lock them all out at boss gate. All the low level monsters are sleepable. Qarn is the dungeon i think that starts introducing sleep resistant mobs.

Main scenario foes mix things up better than low level, but I am always dropped into Castrum, which never feels like the seals I am getting are worth the time unless we pull a speed run and at least I like Tam-Tara.

I feel more for the frequent trial roulette runners that always seem to land in Titan hard mode...

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Originally Posted by Ametrine

Main scenario foes mix things up better than low level, but I am always dropped into Castrum, which never feels like the seals I am getting are worth the time unless we pull a speed run and at least I like Tam-Tara.
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It is not about whether it is worth it to you. You should not speed run it unless everyone agrees to it and there is no 1st timers. The roulette is there to help other players, and sometime might even help yourself level your alt.

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Originally Posted by Foo01

It is not about whether it is worth it to you. You should not speed run it unless everyone agrees to it and there is no 1st timers. The roulette is there to help other players, and sometime might even help yourself level your alt.

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Oh, I know, I'm just groaning about it being so repetitive and long. Although I get to DPS more there than any other dungeon. @_@

As a healer, that's all I get. Tam Tara.
As a DPS, I get more places and I pray to God I get an Ifrit here and there.
I never got Sastasha but it drives you damn insane with Tam Tara.
T-T IT'S ALL THE TIME lol.

I've gotten nothing but The Thousand Maws of Totorak constantly since I started using low level roulette. I'm not even joking I've never gotten anything else but ONCE Sastasha.

For all the people saying it's based on current demand, I know that's true to a degree, but it really isn't always the case. I got Tam-Tara before (ironic given the thread) and was paired up with three other level 50s in i90+ gear all doing it on roulette. Why we were all put there together is a mystery.

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Originally Posted by AmyNeudaiz

I've gotten nothing but The Thousand Maws of Totorak constantly since I started using low level roulette. I'm not even joking I've never gotten anything else but ONCE Sastasha.

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I am sorry. I feel your pain. It would be nice if the system would recognize that we did said dungeon a few hours ago using roulette system, and throw us into something else instead of the same dungeon...time after time...after time again. But alas.
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It's always Tam Tara or Totorak for me. Or at least most of the time. Once in a blue moon its Hakkue Manor and Stone Vigil has only showed up once for me in the Roluette. And when it chooses bosses its Titan most of the time, Rarely Ifrit. NEVER Garuda. I haven't seen normal Garuda in ages. I even forgot how she fights. xD

There has to be more to it than just what people are queuing for. Tam Tara and Toto Rak are happening waaaaay too often to just coincidentally be a thing people need at the moment. I mean if it were just me getting them then sure it's my bad luck or whatever, but everyone seems to be getting them all the time.

Considering how Tam Tara and Toto Rak seem to appear so often I don't think it's as random as they say.

I kept getting Cutter's Cry as a healer (I hate kiting) so often that a decided to take a break from low level roulette. You can not imagine my happiness when I tried it again recently and got Ifrit.

I am happy to know that I am not the only one that is feeling like I am getting shafted here. xD I enjoy doing my roulettes for tomes, and the low level one is the one I dread the most, due to the fact that it is always seemingly Tam Tara. The other roulettes are offering me much more variety than the low level one, at least that is my experience with it anyways. Low level roulette is becoming the bane of my FFXIV existence.
:p

You do realize that sometimes people run the old dungeons on their leveled classes for the loot so they can level another class. I know I was running the original three dungeons for Plundered gear for a while. And might have to again... stupid retainers only leveling as far as you have levels... It's not always low level people, but because someone IS running the dungeons Roulette is still going to pair you off with them. This is how it works.

Append: Also, low level Copperbell isn't Copperhell. That'd be Copperbell (Hard).

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Originally Posted by Erendis

I kept getting Cutter's Cry as a healer (I hate kiting) so often that a decided to take a break from low level roulette. You can not imagine my happiness when I tried it again recently and got Ifrit.

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That's the third dungeon I get the most, no matter if I'm DPS or healer.

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Originally Posted by Gilraen

You do realize that sometimes people run the old dungeons on their leveled classes for the loot so they can level another class. I know I was running the original three dungeons for Plundered gear for a while. And might have to again... stupid retainers only leveling as far as you have levels... It's not always low level people, but because someone IS running the dungeons Roulette is still going to pair you off with them. This is how it works.

Append: Also, low level Copperbell isn't Copperhell. That'd be Copperbell (Hard).

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Yes, everyone realizes people run dungeons, but very often you see yourself with a party full of people who came from DR, as if the queue gave priority to those three.

Roulette always seem a bit weird to me. At one point I was on a 12th streak of Haukke Manor. Although it seems a lot more varied these days.

I always try to look at the bright side of things: whenever I help a roulette run to be carried to its end, there is at least one less person that will queue for that place.

Halatali has a knack for popping as my roulette turn, but it's not something that doesn't come 100% of time. On the other hand, I'm currently farming for the Aurum Vale weapons, and I feel somewhat bad when roulette people end up in my run and scream "Noooo not Aurum Vale....!" XD I'm sorry, I just need it...!

Back when Duty Roulette was first released, Sastasha, Tam Tara, and Copperbell were by far the most common results. This makes sense because a lot of folks were using Roulette to level low-level jobs, so of course low-level dungeons are gonna crop up more often in a purely random system. SE fixed this problem by giving higher-level dungeons more "weight" whenever a group is higher level.

However, it often seems like I'm getting the SAME high-level dungeon many times in a row. I'll get Haukke Manor every day for a week, or Stone Vigil, or Totorak. It's probably all in my head, but it makes me wonder if the "fix" SE implemented is to give specific high-level dungeons weight, and switch off this weight each week. Like, this week Haukke Manor will always come up if the participating group qualifies, and next week it will be Totorak.

In order to verify, though, I'd actually have to do RESEARCH and COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE, which is, of course, outrageous when I'm lazy and would prefer to just post my ramblings on the forums and plants seeds for conspiracy theorists. :3