The Castrum Meridianum/Praetorium Change

[Lord_Zlatan]

In before they require you to do MSQ roulette once a day for the new relics... Gonna need more than tomes and gil for folks to queue it up now...

woooow.... probably right to be fair

[Akor]

In before they require you to do MSQ roulette once a day for the new relics... Gonna need more than tomes and gil for folks to queue it up now...

Than eureka (diadem) can drop dead lol

[Soupa]

I guess I stopped doing MSQ roulette a long time ago anyway but on some odd occasions I do help new players I know out to clear these. Now I might stop :x it’s not that i mind people watching the cutscenes because they are nice but I don’t wanna watch them again. Also inevitable “petition to remove msq roulette” thread in this section of the forums inc.

[Rasikko]

It's insulting when you think about it. You just know the increased rewards are gonna be small(lol).

[Riko_Futatabi]

This seems like it was a little bit of a lazy "fix". If you can even call it a fix. I'd rather these instances just be reworked to be 4-Man Dungeons. They have reworked old content before with all 2.0 24-Man Raids only requiring a single tank now. I'm not sure why they haven't made these 2 Dungeons 4-Man by now. Honestly, they might even be a bit more interesting with 4 players without the need to rework anything lol.

[Bellsong]

People can be pissed all they want, but they have no one else to blame but themselves.

Had these dungeons just come out a week ago and this was SE's knee jerk reaction to making the roulette less toxic, I would agree with you.

But this late in the game most if not all of the blame rests with SE and their totally disregard for going back to fix the environment they created. I had hoped that with the squad system seemingly coming along nicely that SE would have made it a priority to get the AI used for them to work in these two final ARR dungeons with either the Scions or random adventurer stand ins. But there's nothing so far.

You can blame people all you want, but SE were the ones who sat on their hands while this issue persisted for so long.

[ToasterMan]

[Kallistra]

Give it a patch. The massive reduced people queue for MSQ roulette will eventually make them revert, after the complaint threads start about new players not being able to advance the story due to not finding groups or insane queue times of several hours.

This will likely be the cause. If I remember correctly, they added the MS Roulette because the queues for it were so bad for new players because they weren't in any other roulette. I see the queues slowing down significantly and I think it's quite possible they'll revert the change sooner or later.

On the bright side, those doing the Mentor Roulette can look forward to these two popping more often now. :^)

[DevilsDontFly]

No, they'll probably just vote kick you as soon as they notice you're taking 30 seconds longer to view the cutscenes than the 7 other people who are just spam clicking through it.

Assuming, of course, you even can get 7 other people anymore to do this roulette. Seems like a whole lot of people won't be bothering anymore. I didn't do it very much before, but now I certainly never will be.

I actually have no problem whatsoever with people that view cutscenes in this dungeon. I just don't appreciate having it forced on me.

If I recall correctly, you can only votekick after five minutes of duty, but the duty timer only starts after everyone has seen the initial duty-introduction cutscene. So going by that logic, one could potentialy hold an entire party hostage because the timer would never start, hence no votekick. I really don't think this was a smart solution to this problem.

[Sylvina]

I have never seen anyone be toxic towards players who wanted to watch the cutscenes, this change is literally the dumbest way possible to deal with it even if this were a thing.