Quote Originally Posted by Ametrine View Post
So, a huge stack of Poetics aren't going to get many high level players to get into the roulette. Creation and Mendacity, though? Absolutely, I'd run it.
There is no point putting anything but poetics for MSQ because MSQ is 2.x content, and those tomes are not part of 2.0 content, and SE does not want people to farm MSQ for HW/SB content, because then people wouldn't run the hard content you get those tomes from.

All things considered equal , remember that there will be players who can not get past level 50 and will only get poetics from all queues they're allowed to do. So having level 51+ characters "helping" is really just denying them any challenge.

Really what needs to happen with MSQ is for it to be broken up like Coil/Alexander and thus go "mildly challenging trash mob sequence, mid/final-boss, cutscene, exit" Where the players can skip the cut scene and exit right away if they've seen it before. Hell, I would love it if they re-arranged the dungeons so that it's more like:

Castrum Meridianum: The Black Eft
Castrum Meridianum: Magitek Vangaurd F-1
Castrum Meridianum: Magitek Colossus Rubricatus
Castrum Meridianum: Livia sas Junius Magitek Armor
Castrum Meridianum: Livia sas Junius

The Praetorium: Mark II Magitek Colossus
The Praetorium: Nero tol Scaeva
The Praetorium: Gaius van Baelsar
The Praetorium: Magitek Factory (The armor sequence)
The Praetorium: Ultima Weapon turn 1
The Praetorium: Ultima Weapon turn 2
The Praetorium: Lahabrea

And then adjust the ilevel sync so all players are at level 50/iLevel 42-55 when a new player is in the party so there's at least more than 2 minutes of challenge to each segment. So instead of one 45 minute run/each, it's more like 3-10 minutes for each part. Sure it interrupts the pacing, but that didn't stop people from playing the Coil raids.