Quote Originally Posted by Februs View Post
Keep in mind that the original Roulette's did not unlock until you had cleared all the content that was required for them. Meaning, in this case, no Raid Roulette if you haven't cleared the Coils.
Roulettes help populate instances that people are queueing for specifically, though. If you have 3 people waiting in queue for (as an example) WP HM and I queue into the DF for level 50 roulette, I can quite possibly get dropped into the dungeon with them.

Even if they did let you in without clearing it first, though, it wouldn't be a big deal. The only time the roulette would be a problem is because of mech heavy fights like T8, 9 and 13... but so what? It's not written anywhere that the team absolutely has to succeed. It's okay to fail, and you can always que again.
That completely defeats the purpose of offering a tome reward for a roulette, though (to me, at least). Players generally take the path of least resistance when it comes to grinding tomes, so you're basically alienating the audience that the roulette is aimed at from the get-go. I for one wouldn't queue raid roulette for tomes because there's ways to get them that involve much less face-bashing against divebombs. You might be left with a few people hopping in there for the sake of nostalgia (or maybe some people are just that bored, who knows), but that isn't going to help the queues much with the shape they're in now.

Besides, if you're lucky, someone will have cleared and can talk the group through it. That's even more likely these days with all the people who have cleared it unsync'd, and given that a lot of older raiders would probably be down for Raid Roulette just for the sake of nostalgia. Personally, I'd enjoy running T9 with noobs just because it would be a good change of pace from running it with a pre-made.
I could see it as something fun to do as a premade with people that know the fights (probably with 6+ people so you could control the party composition and carry those last 1 or 2 people if needed). Queueing solo though? That's boredom at its finest. Being stat capped and synced down to level 50 is still tons different than running those fights unsynced. Clearing a fight unsynced doesn't necessarily give you an idea of the actual mechanics behind it because many of them do lolsome damage given our level 60 HP pools and defense values. Level 60 attack values and new rotations also mean that you burn through them much faster and blow right on past a lot of the mechanics, so those that have cleared unsynced may not have even experienced some of them.