Never Make Your Players Have to "Find the Fun"

[Purrfectstorm]

In all probability, the impact that having no lockouts would have on queue times would be fairly small, as queue times are far more impacted by data center populations and overall role distributions than they are by the fact that people can only get 450 Esoterics per week. The weekly tome lockout was originally 300 per week, and queue times didn't lessen by any noticable margins when they increased it to 450, nor did they noticeably improve when the cap was 900 tomes of Poetics toward the end of ARR.

You're judging the impact on 300 vs 450, which is only 2 ex roulettes. So obviously the impact will be small. When the limit is 450 vs. infinite, one would expect a MUCH bigger impact. Look at what happened when SE added this new relic quest - queue times for Alexander normal increased tenfold. We can't act like incentives for running content doesn't make a big difference as outside of helping the occasional person people aren't running the content for any other reason.