Add Aetherochemical Research Facility to Extreme Dungeon Roulette

[Jpec07]

Right now, Aetherochemical Research Facility is one of the least-queued-for instances in the game. Only level 60 players can access it, but they are far more likely to use their leveling roulette for an alternate class or job (six Esoterics is not worth doing it at cap, at least in my opinion). Even if they were to use their leveling roulette for Esoterics, there is a very small chance that they woulds wind up in Aetherochemical Research Facility (for me, it's about a 1/20 chance, or about 5%, assuming even weighting).

This has led some others in my Free Company to have extremely long queue times for the dungeon, which is required at 60 before finishing the story and unlocking endgame content.

Given that it is required, and given its relative difficulty when compared to the other leveling dungeons, I'd like to see Aetherochemical Research Facility included in Duty Roulette: Expert. It would get a lot more people doing the dungeon, shorten queue times, and add a bit of variety to the daily Expert queue. Esoterics would need to be added after the first completion to make it worth it, but adding it to the queue with an iLvl sync (to ~170, to be nice to fresh 60s) would be a very nice addition.

[Kaiser-Ace]

Or add it to story roulette so we can get something besides castrum and prae. That's be nice.

[MrTherm]

Seeing it on story or expert roulette would be very nice.

3.1 will introduced somewhat soon (hopefully) and with it we are getting 2 new dungeons. I'm rather curious what they are going to do with current expert roulette dungeons. Will they just add the 2 new ones to it and let us queue for all 4? or will they create a new "High" level roulette for 60 cap content? Or are they just going to keep cramming everything in current high level so the list gradually becomes a mile long with old content?

Common SE. Don't screw this one up.

[Esp]

I'm pretty much in favor of anything that will stop me from getting Nevereap in my Expert Roulette..

Please do it SE, I approve of this message.

[Twilite]

Yeah SE, you forgot this is needed for the MSQ.

[Subucnimorning]

This would be a nice change...most people who run the expert roulette don't actually need the i160 drops I think it would be fine.

[raela]

It definitely should go somewhere. I really like this dungeon, but don't have much reason to do it. My friends and I got into it on accident once (misunderstanding when queueing), and since we had one random DF person with us, I pushed us to just do it (wasn't the Bard's fault we misqueued). I have too many dailies to queue it for funsies.

[Delphor]

Or add it to story roulette so we can get something besides castrum and prae. That's be nice.

But it wouldn't though.

No-one at 60 needs poetics.

I'd say abolish the Main Scenario roulette, take out the 2.0 content at 15-Praetorium and put it in its own "A Realm Reborn levelling" roulette, plus give that 120 Poetics and 5 Esoterics (same Poetics, and the Esos from original "levelling" roulette to entice endgamers to go through it). Turn "high level" into a "intermediate" level roulette and give that 100 Poetics and 75 Law. Shove Aetherochemical in the "Heavensward levelling" roulette (Dusk Vigil - Aetherochemical) and give that 150 Law and 15/20/25 Esoterics. Keep Expert as it is, just apply the Saint Mocianne Arboretum and Pharos Sirius (Hard) that are upcoming to the Expert roulette, so it's not simply a 50/50 run between a dungeon that can be speedrun (Fractal) and a ballache (Neverreap).

Adding to this, the Guildhests roulette is useless for the GC seals it offers. It needs to be increased by at least 10-15x its GC seal reward to even be remotely appealing. Why waste my time getting level synced for 318 GC seals in a roulette queue that would take me more than an hour to get in, when I can farm expert for Baldur/Valerian items I can trade for 920 seals each, as well as capping out my weekly Esoterics? Yet instead, if I was going to be awarded anywhere between 3180 and 4770 seals for what'd take the equivalent time of a Trial roulette, I'd certainly consider doing more of them.

[Shirobi]

Anyone with half a brain would just quit or refuse to do it and wait for /kick. Its wayy to long and hard and rewardless by comparison to just be part of the roulette.

[Shirobi]

This would be a nice change...most people who run the expert roulette don't actually need the i160 drops I think it would be fine.

I love those drops. Thats heaps of gil if you're a crafter.