Extreme trials and the DF

[Vahlnir]

An EX Roulette wouldn't be relatively small though. It would border on non-existent. Look at how many Mentors bail the moment they get a synced Primal. There just isn't a reward large enough that would completely imbalance the system. When you can cap current tomes in two hours through hunts or send a little longer in easy dungeons, why would anyone touch an EX variant? Maybe you put a mount there but then people would just form premades; defeating the entire purpose.

Chances are I wouldn't touch it either, to be honest. But I do feel that the option should be there. I don't see how premades would defeat the purpose of a roulette though. They would still have to deal with a random trial. That's how it is supposed to work. A random trial doesn't necessarily mean it has to be random people. By that logic that means they should rework just about every roulette available to us, aside from what works solely as a solo queue anyway. And that would be unnecessary, in my opinion, because the system is already working as intended, premades or not.

[Ultimatecalibur]

To fill out queues in general. I don't think they ever intended to fill out just EX queues.

When Mentor Roulette was introduced the ARR EX trials were pretty much the only non-raids df not popping regularly or being successfully completed. The EX trials were the only thing that "required" a Mentor who had already completed the content everything else was queuable normally. They were also the big road block that limited (as still limits) access to the roulette.

[Driavna]

Chances are I wouldn't touch it either, to be honest. But I do feel that the option should be there. I don't see how premades would defeat the purpose of a roulette though. They would still have to deal with a random trial. That's how it is supposed to work. A random trial doesn't necessarily mean it has to be random people. By that logic that means they should rework just about every roulette available to us, aside from what works solely as a solo queue anyway. And that would be unnecessary, in my opinion, because the system is already working as intended, premades or not.

Way too many bosses and mechanics in order to expect people to remember everything. Also, unless you are a quick learner, an average player will need a few lock-out timers before clearing an extreme fight.

I really have a hard time imagining this kind of roulette working, particularly with all the 24m ILvL cheesing happening already.

[Kuroka]

Id be all in for that roulett, you dont have to run it if you dont like... But i definitly set it so you must have cleared once , or at least have the highest needed Ilvl. Id love more stuff like the mentor roulett, idk why they wont give us 50/60/70 seperate...

[Gemina]

What incentive would this roulette offer to get players to actually use it? Tomes and gil isn't going to do it. Path of least resistance, remember? You can't toss anything in here players already have easier access to. Even increasing these rewards, e.g. offering 500 of the current tomes and 25k gil isn't going to matter if the players can't even clear the fight. From my own experience, syncing down to the primal's level, or running the current raid tier in PF has a clear rate of well under 50%, and not many players are going to want to prog outdated EX content.

EX trials already offer substantial rewards to players willing to run and clear these fights. Because these rewards are random, and have an abysmal drop rate, players are going to want to run these things unsynced if they are to group with total randoms.

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Now, I should also mention that hate having to say everything I just stated. Every last word. Oft I echo the status quo, but it doesn't mean I agree with it. For players like me, the challenge of clearing these fights IS the incentive. If I could group up with seven other players willing to learn, play nice, and care about performing well I couldn't care less about the rewards.

The way it would work in my own funland is the reward for clearing the roulette is simply x10 of the totem the fight drops. There would be a bonus to all players of x1 totems and a slightly increased drop rate on the mount if any player has yet to clear the fight. This would be a weekly reward system that resets along with the other weeklies. For those unfortunate to get a fight they already have the mount for, a consolation bonus of a voucher that they can exchange for a reward of their choosing will be given upon completion of the roulette. Possible items up for exchange would be MGP and Aetheryte tickets, rare dyes, and even some exclusive rewards.

The idea of the roulette is to get players in those damn fights. I envision a world where the devs are having to think about how to make content more challenging, not less; because the playerbase in general are having increased clear rates of the harder content. One can dream.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I'd like to see it, but I'm also a sadist, so take my input with a grain of salt and rub it in your eyes.

Also a Binding Coils roulette, but see above.

[linayar]

Any reason why put EX trials in the regular trial DF (and, correspondingly, roulette)?

Aren't they only available in mentor roulette? And if I recall correctly, last time I had to clear EX trials to unlock mentor roulette in the first place.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

That being said, where it is in the queuing system means very little for the majority of the NA/EU playerbase, they'll use Party Finder to match with people, they don't draw randoms from Duty Finder.

Well, I always get them in Mentor Roulette. It's kind of annoying wiping like 90 minutes to Sophia EX & Co.

[Kuroka]

But actually its sad, some times it would be so sweet to just que for it and go...., lock it behind a "have 15-30 kills" or smt...

[LalafellDown]

You mean this?

https://imgur.com/a/mESfypv

I would like this.