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    Oct 2014
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    Squintina Nightgard
    World
    Faerie
    Main Class
    Scholar Lv 100
    Castrum 4.1 - Level 61 White Mage
    Last boss experience: 31903 (0.65%)
    Last boss tomes: 20

    Roulette experience: 642,610 exp (13.8%)
    Roulette tomes: 120

    Queue time: 3 minutes
    Total time (people rushed): 21 minutes
    Total time: 24 minutes
    Total experience (last boss + roulette): 67,4513 (21.13%)

    Note: why did I keep track of last boss? Because they said completion rewards would be increased, which I did think would mean poetics, but I also kept the possibility that it would be the final boss experience as well.

    Castrum 4.2 - Level 61 White Mage

    Last boss experience: 253522 (this went up a lot) = 5.2%
    Last boss tomes: 100 (this went up)

    After receiving this, I leveled to 62, so numbers are not as easily comparable.

    Roulette experience: 1140712 exp = 21.45% (since I just turned 62 the number went up, but percentage-wise it doesn't seem to have gone up much. It doesn't seem to have increased or if it did, it's by a small amount)
    Roulette tomes: 200 (this went up)

    I also got 78,092 exp seemingly out of nowhere. My guess is that the 253,522 is a new experience bonus for completion and the 78,092 is actually the boss exp. If that is the case, the boss exp wouldn't have increased all the much but the new completion exp is ok - but maybe not worth it because of the extra time spent.

    Queue time: 8 minutes
    Total time: 37minutes
    Total time: 45 minutes
    If you compare the run time, before it was 21 minutes. Add 6 minutes of cutscenes and that should have been about 27 minutes. The extra 10 minutes are from doing small pulls and people getting lost because a lot of people were newer, which will happen more often as veteran players stop queuing.

    Conclusion
    Because of the level up I cannot acurrately compare total (last boss + roulette) experience.
    That being said:
    Overall it seems like only the boss/completion experience went up by a significant amount, not the roulette experience.
    I would estimate about 26% (not counting other bosses and monsters), compared to about 21% before for something that took twice as long and was a bit boring.

    For those of us, like me, who ran this solely for the experience (and the nice easy run), it doesn't seem worth it - and that was just Castrum.
    Furthermore as time goes on, the queue time will lengthen, and parties doing small slow pulls will also increase as they get less experienced players, leading to even more time added on top of the cutscenes. This would also mean though that the chances of having an actual new person in the run should also increase for an extra 100 poetics and WT second chance.

    Note 2: Why did I not include adds and other bosses?
    Because different groups pull different amount of skippable adds, and I just forgot about the other bosses. That being said since only completion & roulette "rewards" were mentioned, those should be the only numbers that truly matter, but I should have at least kept some monster exp for reference in case they increased that as well. Too late now.
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    Last edited by Squintina; 01-31-2018 at 04:20 AM.