Why is "Duty Roulette" a solo feature?

[Taekrys]

I really don't get why you guys are attacking me.
I asked for source from SE where they explain if what you are saying has a official declaration behind it.

And about the one who said I care about rewards more... I don't.
In this week I didn't gather a single Allagan Mythology, I'm still 0/450, EXACTLY because since this feature is out, I was unable to find my friends available for queues anymore.
I care about playing with friends A LOT MORE than rewards. And that's why I'm unhappy with this Duty Roulette.
I know you now will say something like "They are not so friend to you as you think, then.", but really, let's skip that.

In fact, I correct my initial statement, so we avoid further discussion on this.
I heard the opinions, I now would like JUST to know if there is some official statement.
If there isn't, nevermind.

[amnie]

eh. nobody is 'attacking' you (in fact I found your 'solo player' rant a lot more like attacking. lol)

and of course I say you care about rewards more if that is exactly what you were saying. I don't know what you .did. this week or the previous week or what's going on inside your head or what your true motivations are. I can .only. go by what you write here, and you wrote "I lose something, without Duty Roulette: bonus prizes and much faster allagan cap."

not sure why your problem of not getting anything this week is related to the duty roulette. are you saying your friends rather spend their entire time doing roulette than doing things with you? uhm.. eh.. ok I can't say anything nice about this without possibly offending either you - or your friends.

I also don't really know what you want an 'official' statement for. (not sure if there is one. I honestly find this way too logical to honestly argue about it, but apparently you don't)

at this point it seems more like a matter of 'whaaa I don't want you guys to make sense!'

[Lacerta]

Q: Will you be able to use the Duty Roulette when forming a party with 2 or 3 members?
A: We’ll be improving the Duty Finder extensively for 2.1, but I’m afraid the ability to participate in parties will take until 2.2.

Source: here.

[Jennika]

Duty Roulette is specifically for helping to fill spots in less popular content. We don't all have a lot of friends that we can do content with so Duty Roulette rewards players for queuing solo to help fill spots.

Also, not everybody has the same play style or in-game goals. If you are constantly logging in to find that your friends have already used Duty Roulette to do runs then possibly their priority lies more in the rewards and less in doing runs with people they know.

[Taekrys]

Source: here.

Thanks a lot.
And I think that answer indirectly to my question: they did not care for solo or group, they just COULDN'T put the feature for pre-formed group yet (even if I don't really get why, but nevermind).
So that goes for every of anyone else's statement and means that this was not to "counter" anything or anyone, but just accidental.

[Amyas]

I know people say its so those low-level dungeons can get tanks/healers, but as a tank I don't even bother with low-level DR, the rewards aren't enough. Only 10 myth? At least make it thirty so it'll be on par with WP/AK. Haven't even tried it, too much risk getting in a group in SV that times out on the last boss because issues or w/e and 0 reward.

[FMElan]

I know people say its so those low-level dungeons can get tanks/healers, but as a tank I don't even bother with low-level DR, the rewards aren't enough. Only 10 myth? At least make it thirty so it'll be on par with WP/AK. Haven't even tried it, too much risk getting in a group in SV that times out on the last boss because issues or w/e and 0 reward.

As a tank, I've DF'd Stone Vigil at least 40 times to get my sword and have never had a party time out. So I'm confused as to how this is even an example...

[Amyas]

So I'm confused as to how this is even an example...

You must be confused a lot if you don't realize different people have different experiences than you.
Every other time I've tried it, whether it be for leveling or to help friends, we get to the boss with maybe 15-10 mins left and we wipe once or twice to it before I leave. I can't make people dodge. Also I'm confused on why you'd bother running an instance '40 times' for a weapon that's worthless.

[FMElan]

You must be confused a lot if you don't realize different people have different experiences than you.
Every other time I've tried it, whether it be for leveling or to help friends, we get to the boss with maybe 15-10 mins left and we wipe once or twice to it before I leave. I can't make people dodge.

Do you not explain the fights to people? Or do you just not understand the mechanics enough to explain the fights? I've never led a DF party through that dungeon that had serious issues on any part of the dungeon aside from the final boss, and even that's only a wipe or two before they start to get it.

Also I'm confused on why you'd bother running an instance '40 times' for a weapon that's worthless.

Because it wasn't worthless to me?

[Amyas]

Do you not explain the fights to people? Or do you just not understand the mechanics enough to explain the fights? I've never led a DF party through that dungeon that had serious issues on any part of the dungeon aside from the final boss, and even that's only a wipe or two before they start to get it.



Because it wasn't worthless to me?

Sure I explain fights. Like I said though, I can't force people to dodge aoe, and no matter how much I say 'Move back, patrol inc. Aevis inc. MOVE PLEASE!' people still stand there and aggro patrols while fighting sprites, causing a wipe. For the fourth time. Even better is when I tried to go in as a drg to level it and got a crappy pld that would use all his defensive cooldowns as he pulled and ignore people when they'd say 'you should save your cds when your in the fight' and never, ever say a word.
And the wep is worthless, GC weps of the same level have better stats esp in combination with other gc gear.

EDIT: and back to my main point, low level DR just isn't worth the rewards it gives.