Please equalize rewards between Castrum and Prae

[Goji1639]

I honestly don't think so. Or at least, it would be far more muted than people fishing for Prae are atm.

Think about it. Castrum takes around 20-25 minutes to complete, prae about 45-50. Fishing for castrum would basically be pointless since they'd waste more time leaving the Praetorium run, waiting 30 minutes, re-queue (which if you're not tank/healer, could be long), zone in, and then gamble on a 50/50 chance that they get castrum (which if they lost, means they would have to leave and waste another 30 mins for penalty). The 30min penalty + the time it takes to complete castrum if they got lucky on their first re-attempt is already is as long as a Prae run...for the same reward.

Sure, it would suck if you got Prae, but it would actually be faster to just do the Prae run then leave and try to gamble at 50/50's on top of queue time.

This only really holds true if people sat around doing nothing during the 30 minute penalty, which I'm guessing no one does.

During the 30 minute penalty you can get something else done, in game or outside of the game; so the penalty is null. You're not actually losing time you're just reorganizing it. If you stick with Prae, however, you're physically stuck in MSQ for an extra 30 minutes for the exact same reward as Castrum; so you lose that 30 minutes.