Adventurer in need is ALWAYS tank

Id like to have the cracked cluster from the adventurer in need bonus, It used to be "healer" now, day by day it's tank. So I'm guessing farming cracked clusters from leveling roulette is tank exclusive ?

On rare occasions I've actually seen DPS in need I kid you not. This mostly has happened during really quiet periods though when not many players are online, but it definitely can happen. Funny enough though, DPS in need is common occurrence on the JP data centres, my alt loves it!

The Adventurer in Need requirement changes depending on which role is actively lacking when players enter the Duty Roulette queue. With tanks usually having the most responsibility of keeping mobs and bosses at bay and mistakes being more fatal when done by tanks, it comes naturally that players would rather resort to being DPS or Healers, creating a deficit of tanks. The AIN reward is meant as an incentive to do said roulette as a tank to help players get their dungeons done.

If you want clusters aside that, there is the option to join Elite Mark Hunts via linkshells and fighting those in large scale groups (Stormblood areas only if you want the Cracked Cluster) for a somewhat 50:50 chance of a cluster per A-Rank. Another option would be doing the Lost Canals of Uznair aka Gazelleskin maps and be lucky with the floors.

There are possibly even more, but I can't recall them all.

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Originally Posted by MedSurgNursing

Id like to have the cracked cluster from the adventurer in need bonus, It used to be "healer" now, day by day it's tank. So I'm guessing farming cracked clusters from leveling roulette is tank exclusive ?

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If there's a lack of tanks, there's a lack of tanks.

I'm not sure what kind of answers you were expecting to get.

Healer pops up sometimes in the morning, but during primetime it's pretty much always going to be tank. It is, afterall, meant to incentive playing whichever role there's a shortage of.

I see healer quite often as the AIN, for both Leveling and Trials, regardless of time of day. Its pretty random when it pops up, but it happens more often than you might think. There's also been multiple times I've queued as WHM and got a cluster despite it saying Tank. DPS even happens occasionally.

Since the cross server party finder I've seen all roles. I think it depends more on what time your own and what your looking for. If it's daily dungeons and raids they vary by heavy time and by server region. IF you need cracked crystals just do hunts younormally get them there also and it's pretty fast if you have a hunt LS.

...I mean... the whole point of this bonus is to get the classes that are in need into the roulette/dungeons. And as we all know we're mainly lacking tanks.
So what did anyone expect?

Healer pops up all the time for me. I've even seen DPS pop up on alliance roulette from time to time.

I think people are just being picky as well -.- tanks are the most wanted. If there were a balanced amount the queue would be faster. I'm surprise this thread even exist -.-

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Originally Posted by ManuelBravo

I think people are just being picky as well -.- tanks are the most wanted. If there were a balanced amount the queue would be faster. I'm surprise this thread even exist -.-

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I would argue that the biggest problem is that the incentive is just far too low for most people to pick up the Adventurer In Need bonuses. The incentive isn't enough for most people to switch or to run the roulette more than once.

Ive run expert(2 or 3 times), leveling(once), trials(6-10 times), and alliance(almost every time i que) all with AiN as DPS. Ive also seen but not run(or counted) AiN bonuses for DPS on hest and MSQ. Ive yet to notice a DPS AiN on 50/60 or 70, but i rarely look at those and run them even less often. When i check roulettes its like 55ish% tank and 40ish% healer for bonus. So... the system is working. Are the incentives large enough to get the hoped for boost? They could probly stand to be a bit higher.

Is this a roundabout way to say that there are fewer tanks compared to the slots they're meant to fill than healers and DPS, or a roundabout way to ask if there are fewer tanks compared to the slots they're meant to fill than healers and DPS?

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Originally Posted by Blanchimont

I would argue that the biggest problem is that the incentive is just far too low for most people to pick up the Adventurer In Need bonuses. The incentive isn't enough for most people to switch or to run the roulette more than once.

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Kind of the whole purpose of daily roulette run, not meant to be done multiple times. HOPEFULLY SE will expand the reward times to maybe two times per day -.- as a suggestion. Personally you get some type of bonus either way. Now a days I personally only care about jobs that I need to level just out of boredom, tomes are nice yet right now I really want is more poetics. If I need cracked crystals I have a hunt ls and just do that for in between queues. I rather be more productive than just siting there and complain about it. Point is there are alternatives take what is needed if players don't like it just play as normal.

Ya i see healer a few times, and dps allot on 24man roulette. Though expert always a tank.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

On rare occasions I've actually seen DPS in need I kid you not. This mostly has happened during really quiet periods though when not many players are online, but it definitely can happen. Funny enough though, DPS in need is common occurrence on the JP data centres, my alt loves it!

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I see healer once or twice a day, but it lasts for a minute only, so gotta be quick

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Originally Posted by Frizze

Ive yet to notice a DPS AiN on 70

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I saw this last night.

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Originally Posted by Blanchimont

I would argue that the biggest problem is that the incentive is just far too low for most people to pick up the Adventurer In Need bonuses. The incentive isn't enough for most people to switch or to run the roulette more than once.

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I think the cracked cluster is sufficient.

Now the gil and exp rewards, particularly for other roulettes where that's all there is... yeah, that's pretty meh. It's why SE patched in cracked clusters before they could even add it to the UI to begin with.

Actually we have:
3 Tank jobs
3 Healer jobs
9 (NINE) DPS jobs...
No wonder they are always asking for Tanks as AiN (Adventure in Need). I agree we may need more Healers in need.
I think if we had more tank jobs, maybe, that would be more varied?! #barbarian_tank_job_pls_SE (with a war hammer)

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Originally Posted by Klein_Rider

Actually we have:
3 Tank jobs
3 Healer jobs
9 (NINE) DPS jobs...
No wonder they are always asking for Tanks as AiN (Adventure in Need). I agree we may need more Healers in need.
I think if we had more tank jobs, maybe, that would be more varied?! #barbarian_tank_job_pls_SE (with a war hammer)

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As much as I wish there was a new tank/healer to play with in the expac... as SE pointed out, putting in new jobs doesn't necessarily change the overall population. Even with 4 tanks, there's probably still be about the same number of people maining tank jobs. (I still think it's a shi**y excuse to leave tanks out, but neither is it the answer to fixing role populations).

About your cluster problem...

Join a Hunt LS and you gonna swim in clusters my dude!

Did an Leveling Roulette as DPS for my cluster last night. It stayed AiN for two hours.

It’s scary how fast I get into a dungeon now if I play tank, no waiting at all. There must be few tanks who want to queue for things. :)

Over on Aether the queue times are all over the place. Tank isn't always instant here either. I had a 26 minute wait for Bardam's the other day as PLD. Was in the middle of the afternoon too.

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

Did an Expert Roulette as DPS for my cluster last night. It stayed AiN for two hours.

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How did you get a cluster from the Expert roulette exactly? This AiN bonus (containing the cluster) is currently only applicable to the Duty Roulette: Leveling and none of the others.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

How did you get a cluster from the Expert roulette exactly? This AiN bonus (containing the cluster) is currently only applicable to the Duty Roulette: Leveling and none of the others.

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Sorry, meant leveling. Expert was also DPS at the time, but I was already capped for the week. (Was leveling SMN.)

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

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I was about to say! We need more roulettes giving the clusters, I know lvl 70 dungeons can drop rank 6 materia but it's all RNG in the end.

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Originally Posted by Rofel

About your cluster problem...

Join a Hunt LS and you gonna swim in clusters my dude!

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Keep in mind this is only for Stormblood A/S Rank hunts. S-rank seem to be 100% or near that chance for a cluster. A-rank seems 50% or so.

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Originally Posted by Krojack

Keep in mind this is only for Stormblood A/S Rank hunts. S-rank seem to be 100% or near that chance for a cluster. A-rank seems 50% or so.

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Personally I find A ranks to be more around 70%.

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Originally Posted by MedSurgNursing

Id like to have the cracked cluster from the adventurer in need bonus, It used to be "healer" now, day by day it's tank. So I'm guessing farming cracked clusters from leveling roulette is tank exclusive ?

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Adventurer in need is what's..well..in need. If you want clusters: go as a role in need, cross your fingers with Wondrous Tails, or join a hunt LS.

another solution is: run 70 dungeons the whole day and bring every VI materia you dont need to Mutamix Bubblypots , Central Thanalan , X 23.8 / Y 13.6 :cool:

Try playing late at night, you'll often see healers as AIN, even sometimes DPS, and yes, it is on leveling roulette.
I also often saw DPS as AIN for alliance raid, but also saw many times healers as AIN when I checked.

For the expert/70/50-60/trials I'll admit tanks are the AIN for 99% of the time, any time of the day...