The Alliance roulette is unbearable

[DiaDeem]

Actually you can be synced down from 570 (or whatever) to 130 with max stats and if people don't know mechanics, you'll probably still die. Item Level has nothing to do with it.

I honestly prefer to say things like... "Wait for everyone before you pull at Atomos" in LOTA or "Please always stand in a tower" for Cloud of Darkness than letting the raid run as a fiesta. You'd be surprised what short sentences like that can do for a newbie who hasn't seen some of the mechanics introduced in the tower.

[Nyarlha]

The problem is that compared to Crystal Tower, the rewards aren't worth the headache of running the older raids since their mechanics often catch unexperienced players by surprise and things drag on much longer than anyone would wish.

The Ivalice raids are a no for me these days, despite my love of them especially back when they came out. As for Void Ark due to the excessive instant-KO mechanics I actively avoided unlocking that series on my alts. It's not even that I personally mind the difficulty, it's the fact that I know other people will struggle and turn what I was hoping would be a 10 minute run into an hour long one.

If that's going to be the case, then harder raids should reward exp on par with MSQ roulette.

DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER.

It amazes me how this flies above so many people head. If the rewards scaled appropriately to the effort needed for each raid, cheesing wouldn't be an issue. I'll take 90% of a level for Orbonne, no worries.

The other side of the issue is that you only need 1 first timer/1 guy farming for relic memories to queue directly into a CT raid to pull 23 other people with them. This will not change, that's the point of the roulette, filling parties for people queuing for a specific duty.

[Jennah]

I've run Alliance Roulette almost every day since Endwalker dropped.
95% of the time, it's LotA, Syrcus or WoD.
And 95% of the time, there's a new player bonus for it.

Things are working as intended.

[Imora]

Move CT raids to the MSQ roulette and problem fixed.

Add MORE roulettes according to expasions or level ( Shb Roulette, SB Roulette, EW roulette or just High Dungeon Roulette [60++])
Add MORE raids roulettes so everyone can be happy and do the content they should be doing instead of 60 runs of CT per month.

Then no one would get it done because people bail if it's not prae as it is, you think they're going to do CT more?

[Tlamila]

But what about bozja? Oh wait, that's dead content now.

Qute the opposite actually, it's as full now as it first launched, since it's great xp. And not just of people who unlocked it before, I've been seeing plenty of low ranks who are only unlocking it now.
That's also probably why Ivalice raids are popping so much now, people are unlocking them for bozja t mindlessly grind xp there after.

[kaynide]

Alternatively, rework the gear syncing so the 2.0 series raids are actually challenging and comparable to the others. If they simple sync’d the raids to be equal to the gear level they drop max, they’d all feel about the same in difficulty.

I mean, do you guys even remember platform bouncing around on the 2nd boss in CT?

[Packetdancer]

Things are working as intended.

Well... yes and no. It's working as intended inasmuch as "if there are several people queued for this specific instance, we will fill out the rest of the instance" functions properly.

However, I'd argue that it is not working as intended when someone who wants to run the Mhachi raids for the first time, having just unlocked them, queues into Void Ark and has to wait an hour for the queue to pop. Now, this is probably a result in part of the fact that -- as noted earlier in the thread -- there are many people who don't have any alliance roulettes other than Crystal Tower unlocked, but that also probably means that given, say, 37 people queued randomly who can get a bunch of different raids and then two partial parties of folks who can only get Crystal Tower, it's going to be easier for the roulette to fill out the Crystal Tower parties.

Which is great for those wanting to run Crystal Tower... somewhat less so for those trying to queue directly into any of the other alliance raid series.

I'm not sure there's an easy fix for that, though; you'd either have to do something like "okay, you can't do alliance roulette unless you have the alliance raids for any expansion you've completed unlocked" or something -- to ensure that level 80 people queuing in can be put into things other than Crystal Tower -- or you'd need to shift Crystal Tower into Main Scenario roulette.

And the latter is problematic because you can queue into Castrum or Praetorium with two tanks, but you cannot queue into alliance raids with two tanks in a party; you'd have to limit the party composition to something that could fit either. (Along with other problems.)

[Yuella]

Put CT in their own roulette and the rest of alliance raid in their own roulette. problem solved.

[Saraide]

Actually you can be synced down from 570 (or whatever) to 130 with max stats and if people don't know mechanics, you'll probably still die. Item Level has nothing to do with it.

I honestly prefer to say things like... "Wait for everyone before you pull at Atomos" in LOTA or "Please always stand in a tower" for Cloud of Darkness than letting the raid run as a fiesta. You'd be surprised what short sentences like that can do for a newbie who hasn't seen some of the mechanics introduced in the tower.

Watch me confuse an entire alliance raid by saying "all dps in" at cerberus lmao.

[Quintessa]

^That sounds more effective if all the DPS just zerg the stomach. The unknowns that spawn in there aren't really a threat. I just hold them and they are dead in seconds.

Actually you can be synced down from 570 (or whatever) to 130 with max stats and if people don't know mechanics, you'll probably still die. Item Level has nothing to do with it.

I honestly prefer to say things like... "Wait for everyone before you pull at Atomos" in LOTA or "Please always stand in a tower" for Cloud of Darkness than letting the raid run as a fiesta. You'd be surprised what short sentences like that can do for a newbie who hasn't seen some of the mechanics introduced in the tower.

I've had the pleasure of being the only one alive in my party and the only other people alive were B's tank and C's lone healer and the C healer was trying to pull off the biggest recovery in MMO history and that's without LB3 since it wasn't built up yet. Between all the raising and trying to 'target heal' a tank that isn't in C's party, it became too much when the adds spawns again (Angra Manyu if it's not obvious).