Leveling Roulette in a nutshell

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It's likely because lots of new players came in with the new expansion, so the lower level dungeons and trials are being done more? That's what I think anyway.

I know how you feel, but there have been times where I got 61-69 dungeons back to back quite a few times. It of course helps to be in the mid 60s at least as it gives you more dungeons as options :)

Recently on my 62 warrior it's been pretty consistent between keeper of the lake, Sirensong sea and sastasha/totorak.

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Originally Posted by Doozer

It's likely because lots of new players came in with the new expansion, so the lower level dungeons and trials are being done more? That's what I think anyway.

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No that is not it, you can have a party of level 50-60s and get Sastasha.

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Originally Posted by Hakuro89

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This is so inaccurate.

That 61+ should be much smaller.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

No that is not it, you can have a party of level 50-60s and get Sastasha.

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While its RNG it still likely to happen if anyone need it for MSQ.

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Originally Posted by Rinuko

While its RNG it still likely to happen if anyone need it for MSQ.

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A player cannot exceed level 50 until they've done Sashtasha, yet a party ENTIRELY of players over 50 can still end up in Sashtasha. Clearly, none of them need it for MSQ, and it is highly unlikely that any of those 4 players queued for it specifically.

This is why it's called LEVELING roulette, you only have to be lvl 16 to join. The whole point is to do lower dungeons so new people can still get things done. If you don't like it simply don't do it.

I clicked the title thinking "and by in a nutshell you mean Sastasha?"
There was time I got it for a whole week. ;_;

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Originally Posted by Zarabeth

This is why it's called LEVELING roulette, you only have to be lvl 16 to join. The whole point is to do lower dungeons so new people can still get things done. If you don't like it simply don't do it.

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I know it's called LEVELING roulette. That's why I'm running it, because I do in fact happen to be LEVELING.
It wouldn't be nearly as bad if the exp scaling from lower level dungeons wasn't so horrid. Most of the time it doesn't even dent the bar, save for the bonus at the end of it. I run it because I hope for that lottery-esq instance where it drops me into something relevant to my own level (which is awesome, it's basically 1.5+ dungeons' worth of EXP).

I have noticed when doing the level roulette as an DPS, I get either HW or SB content, but when doing it as an Tank or Healer, I always get ARR content and always the 15-40 dungeons.

I got 3x Darkhold and 1 Sohm al or however spelled this week as 65-69 MCH

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Originally Posted by Zarabeth

This is why it's called LEVELING roulette, you only have to be lvl 16 to join. The whole point is to do lower dungeons so new people can still get things done. If you don't like it simply don't do it.

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Yes it is called leveling roulette, but if you qued with a full party of 60’s why are you still getting satasha? From my experience 1/10 satashas actually has a new player or someone at that level. I don’t mind helping new players, I have issues with getting low level dungeons with a full crew of 60s nine times out of ten.

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Originally Posted by MeridaQ

Yes it is called leveling roulette, but if you qued with a full party of 60’s why are you still getting satasha? From my experience 1/10 satashas actually has a new player or someone at that level. I don’t mind helping new players, I have issues with getting low level dungeons with a full crew of 60s nine times out of ten.

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Because its a roulette and you have lot of dungeons to chose from (ARR, HW and SB)?

I get Sohm Al mostly. I hate Sohm Al :/

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

A player cannot exceed level 50 until they've done Sashtasha, yet a party ENTIRELY of players over 50 can still end up in Sashtasha. Clearly, none of them need it for MSQ, and it is highly unlikely that any of those 4 players queued for it specifically.

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That's not entirely true. Sure it's one hell of a grind but so long as they have at least HW registered it can be done.

I always get Ifrit or Titan when I'm healer or Toto-Rak (I hate Toto-Rak nobody avoids the poison ever!)

And about all those Satasha/copperbell/tam tara runs...totally not the altoholics fault nope..okay fine...

Leveling likes to drop me in Stone Vigil a lot lately. Got it three days in a row, all 3 times with new people. At least they needed it.

Trials Roulette is the one that pisses me off the most lately. Stop giving me the Crysalis every day!

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Originally Posted by Rinuko

Because its a roulette and you have lot of dungeons to chose from (ARR, HW and SB)?

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Yeah and even as a roulette getting one dungeon nine times out of ten makes no sense. (I said that in my original post)

did OP edit their post? because I see nothing or am not getting a joke

I keep getting the Aery on my 61+ jobs for some reason.

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Originally Posted by Selova

Recently on my 62 warrior it's been pretty consistent between keeper of the lake, Sirensong sea and sastasha/totorak.

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Consistent means that's pretty much the only ones we get ...lol

why would anyone not want sastasah or one of the lower dungeon? its fast and you end up with roughly the same amount of xp as you wouldve gotten with appropriate level dungeon

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Originally Posted by ErzaScarlet77

why would anyone not want sastasah or one of the lower dungeon? its fast and you end up with roughly the same amount of xp as you wouldve gotten with appropriate level dungeon

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Actually you will usually end up with fair bit less xp than you would have with dungeon near your own level. The roulette bonus will be bigger for the low-level dungeon, but the xp for mob kills will be significantly greater for a high-level dungeon - especially if you have any kind of xp bonus active (rest bonus, armoury bonus, etc.)

I was bored one day and just sat doing leveling roulette. Out of the 15 times I did it, I got Sastasha NM 12 times and Ifrit NM 3. I then quit and did something else lol I love helping the other new players but I am so done with Sastasha. I did Sastasha HM for the first time yesterday and liked it quite a bit.

Why do I keep getting the highest level dungeons for my character most of the time...As a healer, I hardly ever got anything below 61 once I leveled to 62-63. And I leveled all three healers to 70, two of which purely on leveling roulette once a day.

As for the chance of getting high level party on a low level dungeon...that's actually pretty reasonable. How many people do you think queue at once?! How many of them do you think are "newbies"?! If there are so many people that the "newbies" are already covered, then it's obvious that the ones in excess will be patched up with a really random dungeon...which may be low level. Basically, if there's no one needing a dungeon, you'll end up in one at random.

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Originally Posted by Doozer

It's likely because lots of new players came in with the new expansion, so the lower level dungeons and trials are being done more? That's what I think anyway.

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Strongly doubt it, but possible. Originally the game picked the instances that had the most open instances that you could fit into. Then they supposedly fixed that in HW's that was when they had those problems the finder not finding people. They fixed what ever that problem was. Even when queing as a full group(everything open) and say the lowest person is 50 it will still put you into the low low level stuff. I don't think the fix was very good.

They have instance a lotting trouble since day one. It plagues this game to this day. Poor planning or poor hardware, I doubt it is going anywhere soon.

From what I can tell the RNG for the roulette must be truly random, because my experience has been wildly different from what a lot of people are mentioning here. If I queue as a tank or healer (all of which I have above 61) I am almost guaranteed to get a SB dungeon. If I queue as a dps, regardless of level, it usually seems to be HW or ARR. It can be a bit frustrating getting low lvl content where the entire group is synced down, but ymmv I guess.

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Originally Posted by Doozer

It's likely because lots of new players came in with the new expansion, so the lower level dungeons and trials are being done more? That's what I think anyway.

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I would guess players from WoW. When Legion is boring. People start try play FFXIV.
(I'm too from WoW. I quit wow 6month ago. But, I joined ffxiv 2016 jan)

It's not new players. I'm on Balmung, which has been locked. I remember a day or two ago my FC put together a full party for Leveling roulette. Lowest level in the party was 61, all dungeons unlocked, meaning we were elegible to pull anything but almost all the SB dungeons. We pulled Sastasha. Now, I'm not saying we should have automatically pulled Sirensong...it is a roulette after all...but perhaps there could be a smaller selection pool. Like the highest dungeon everyone qualifies for, and the 9 below it. Or something like that.

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Originally Posted by Xerek

It's not new players. I'm on Balmung, which has been locked. I remember a day or two ago my FC put together a full party for Leveling roulette. Lowest level in the party was 61, all dungeons unlocked, meaning we were elegible to pull anything but almost all the SB dungeons. We pulled Sastasha. Now, I'm not saying we should have automatically pulled Sirensong...it is a roulette after all...but perhaps there could be a smaller selection pool. Like the highest dungeon everyone qualifies for, and the 9 below it. Or something like that.

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Well to be fair, don't the roulettes bring players from the whole data center and not just the players' server now? In any case, it would be nice if the roulette could put higher level players in dungeons closer to their levels more often than others.

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Originally Posted by ChaoticCrimson

Well to be fair, don't the roulettes bring players from the whole data center and not just the players' server now? [...]

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The problem is it will do this even with a full premade party, taking the "help first timers" feature out of it. To be fair though, it would be an easy run for the bonus, but after that, a full premade makes the lower queue times of a roulette pointless for grinding over and over, you can just queue for the highest level dungeon your lowest level player can enter and get right in.

In any other situation with a PUG, one of those high level players may have queue'd for it on purpose for some reason.

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No matter which dungeon.

I get Bardam's Mettle 9 times out of 10.

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Originally Posted by K3KW4RCHILD

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No matter which dungeon.

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p.s. That last dude falling is the one watching cutscenes.

My chart(one based on my experience, not what i prefer) would have a lot more aurum vale. I seem to get that one 2/3 of the time.

I CONSTANTLY get tam-tara doing leveling roulette, more than any other dungeon in fact.

I have gotten Shisui Tides 7 times in a row on leveling Roulette.

I get a lot of Keeper of the Lake, Darkhold, and Qarn.

Trials, ugh... I get the worst ones. The second fight from the Hildebrand where if you don't time the second imp punch it's a wipe. I don't know why, but everyone has to hit it at the same time or your hit won't register.