Incentivize More People to Queue for Leveling Dungeons

[linay]

A queue time for 10-15 minutes for a leveling dungeon is fine. I queue for 1-2 hours almost daily for alliance raid/roulette.

[Iscah]

A queue time for 10-15 minutes for a leveling dungeon is fine. I queue for 1-2 hours almost daily for alliance raid/roulette.

That sounds like a lot. Do you have your duty finder language set to "all languages"? It can affect queue times a lot. Or is that normal for alliance roulette on your data centre?

[linay]

That sounds like a lot. Do you have your duty finder language set to "all languages"? It can affect queue times a lot. Or is that normal for alliance roulette on your data centre?

When I created this character for this expansion, I chose not to unlock ARR and HW alliance raids, so I only have the three Ivalice raids and the one Yorha raid for the roulette. Still, I've been able to do the roulette almost every day, mostly as DPS, but sometimes even as Tank as well, so it's all good.

During Stormblood, when I had everything unlocked on my previous character, it was usually almost instant to about 15 minutes for DPS, maybe 10-30 minutes for Tank, and most of the time I got ARR raid.

[Lodi]

When I created this character for this expansion, I chose not to unlock ARR and HW alliance raids, so I only have the three Ivalice raids and the one Yorha raid for the roulette. Still, I've been able to do the roulette almost every day, mostly as DPS, but sometimes even as Tank as well, so it's all good.

During Stormblood, when I had everything unlocked on my previous character, it was usually almost instant to about 15 minutes for DPS, maybe 10-30 minutes for Tank, and most of the time I got ARR raid.

That's probably why it takes so long for you. I have everything unlocked and Alliance roulette often takes 15 minutes, but I get LotA nine times out of ten.

[Tlamila]

That's probably why it takes so long for you. I have everything unlocked and Alliance roulette often takes 15 minutes, but I get LotA nine times out of ten.

Funny, I got almost everything unlocked (except the lvl 80 ones), I did it the other day after years, and it took me 30+ mins to get in as adventurer in need, and I got Mhach. I was actually hoping for LoTA since it's been so long.

[linay]

Edit: Forgot to say - in this particular case it would be because linay hadn't unlocked the earlier roulettes, rather than an issue with the system, which is going to cut down the amount of people available to be paired up with them. I assume they have to reach the very top of the queue before the system starts gathering players eligible for the Lv70 raids.

Interestingly enough, the majority of the time that I get in, I would see people claiming that they're new, which makes me think that people queueing for a specific duty in a roulette is a more determinant factor. Without them, my queue times would be even longer than it already is. It also amazes me that there are plenty of people newly running old optional content, whether it's a truly new player or even an alt.

That's probably why it takes so long for you. I have everything unlocked and Alliance roulette often takes 15 minutes, but I get LotA nine times out of ten.

Yep, I'm aware of that. It was a deliberate choice on my part.

Anyways, back to the topic, that's why I don't think there is any problem with leveling roulette. People say in this thread that they have no incentive to use leveling roulette, but plenty of people use it and I've always been able to when I need it on a reasonable queue time as DPS.

[Rasikko]

I like doing leveling roulette. If I also need quick gil(haha), I'll jump on whatever is "in need".

That sounds like a lot. Do you have your duty finder language set to "all languages"? It can affect queue times a lot. Or is that normal for alliance roulette on your data centre?

I think they changed it where that has 0 effect on queues now.

[Iscah]

I think they changed it where that has 0 effect on queues now.

I've heard that it was changed specifically for leveling roulette, but not other roulettes.

I got someone the other night who said he'd been queuing for over an hour to get in Snowcloak, which sounds improbably slow even for the 50/60/70 roulette, and it had gathered an all-English-speaking party (a rarity on the JP servers). So it definitely still seems to be in effect for that roulette at least.


Edit: Forgot to say - in this particular case it would be because linay hadn't unlocked the earlier roulettes, rather than an issue with the system, which is going to cut down the amount of people available to be paired up with them. I assume they have to reach the very top of the queue before the system starts gathering players eligible for the Lv70 raids.