With the Crystal Paste relic step I figured I would do leveling roulette only as a friend of mine said those give the best bang for the buck crystals per clear.
But as I was doing it I became more and more aware about what nonsense leveling roulette really is due to it's limited dungeon list.
I chose to level up Gunbreaker as I was doing this, so I started with lvl 60 and ended at lvl72.
Now, sure this might have screwed me a bit on what dungeons I COULD get, but I wasn't expecting this.
Here are the most played dungeons doing this process:
1. The Aery, by far the most common one by miles. It got to the point where I was not expecting anything else than this, or the 2nd one on this list. I do not know if this is where a lot of people are just progressing in the story or what, but by the twelve was this ridiculous.
2. The Vault, I must have created at least 20 new depressed souls if not more, by running this and seeing a bunch of happy little sprouts running amok.
3. Sohm Al, no idea why, but this was among the roulettes most chosen.
And all of these 3 are in the range of lvl53-57, which is ridiculous, its the 3 dungeons back-to back of each other.
There are SO many dungeons I might have done maybe once or twice at most.
In fact after reaching lvl70, not a single time did I see a stormblood dungeon. And at that point I had atleast 20dungeons left to do and I was well above the item level as well. What's up with that, people just not doing Stormblood anymore?
ARR leveling dungeons were pretty even, there wasn't any that really stood out other than maybe Dzemael Darkhold being somewhat often.
I would be curious if other people had the same experience in general.
I definitely feel like they should increase the dungeons for leveling roulette or have like a different dungeon list for it on a monthly rotation, dunno how that would work, but, something.
Leveling Roulette - Personal findings
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03-26-2026, 04:48 AMKirutsukiLeveling Roulette - Personal findings
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03-26-2026, 05:09 AMHammAndCheese
During the Crystal Paste step I got more ARR dungeons than anything, I should've kept track but I feel like I got Haukke Manor more than any other dungeon, Darkhold and Aurum Vale were close behind.
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03-26-2026, 05:15 AMKirutsukiHaukke Manor maybe 3 times for me total :DQuote:
Originally Posted by HammAndCheese
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03-26-2026, 05:17 AMJeeqbit
No I didn't really get those in this step. From memory I got Brayflox, Aurum Vale, Gubal Library, Doma Castle, Ihuykatumu and Skydeep Cenote in the Crystal Paste step. I had others in previous steps, but those are the ones I got in this one. It seems my memory is actually really good.
There are a lot that I didn't get, so my guess is that Duty Support NPCs has changed the game a lot and most people do them with NPCs now. -
03-26-2026, 05:17 AMHammAndCheeseI loved helping sprouts who got hopelessly lost, I want more dungeons built like that madhouse LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirutsuki
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03-26-2026, 06:11 AMKirutsukiI'm guessing at lvl100 the pool is wastly more diverse for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeeqbit
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03-26-2026, 06:24 AMAlice_Rivers
There are two Stormblood dungeons in my experience that exist in leveling roulette: Bardam's Mettle and Castrum Abania. If any others show up then something is wrong.
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03-26-2026, 06:28 AMBrynne
During the Crystal Paste step, I think we got the level 91 dungeon the most. Level 65 dungeon was a close second. Other than that, it was pretty random.
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03-26-2026, 06:32 AMVoross
If you take off all of your gear before queueing you can guarantee a low-ish ARR dungeon in Leveling Roulette. They somehow only changed this for Alliance Roulette.
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03-26-2026, 07:00 AMKirutsukiThat's... Wow ok. It coooould possibly explain why people at lvl100 seem to get Stormblood and higher dungeons more easier. Obviously the saturation of people is also going to be different, but I wonder if there's something weird going on with getting dungeons that are near your itemlevel in leveling roulette.Quote:
Originally Posted by Voross
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03-26-2026, 10:28 AMCCheshire
Yes, the ARR dungeons come up alot when I do mentor rous and leveling when I was working on my final alt jobs because I figured we have way more FT players than ppl who cleared DT and subbed so everyone else is pulled there into the ARR stuff too.
So I find it easier to tolerate the High Level Rous than leveling unless I really needed the exp or pastes from leveling. Yes, I get it why it's annoying, but at least they're shorter and less prone to being wiped than, like, DT dungeons, for better or worse. -
03-26-2026, 12:57 PMSigma5
no mention of stone vigil, very curious.
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03-26-2026, 04:23 PMGwenkatsuIndeed. I'm not explicitely keeping track of my Leveling Roulette Dungeons, but from memory every third I get is Stone Vigil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigma5
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03-26-2026, 06:56 PMRein_eon_Osborne
I get a somewhat balanced variety of dungeons from leveling roulette compared to the other roulettes. There are biases toward more ARR pops, then followed by a mix of HW/StB pops, then DT pops, and finally ShB & EW being the rarest two.
ARR, HW, and StB pops are inflated thanks to FT players. DT being semi-frequent probably because lv100 being the current cap. ShB & EW are the ‘stuck in the middle’ case where they have no bump up help from neither capped players & FT players.
ARR pops kinda skyrockets in first week of crystal paste relic implementation because you have bunch of s****paths circumventing the system via ilv cheesing to guarantee ARR pops; it was miserable. -
03-26-2026, 07:52 PMAsari5
i got a lot of arr dungeons, mostly the lvl 32 one.
leveling roulette is cheesable isnt it?