Option to re-lock duties

[ArchlordPie]

The funny thing about this proposal is that it won't actually destroy sync cheese, because cheesers are already limiting themselves to 2 duties (LotA and Circus Tower) for 100% of the usual rewards and enabling players to "re-lock" duties in exchange for a 20% penalty won't do anything to prevent that. Players like me, on the other hand, who would willingly re-lock LotA and Circus because we actually WANT non-braindead content, would be taking a 20% PENALTY to our rewards in exchange for a HARDER Alliance Raid roulette experience overall.

I'm on board with the direction you want to go but this is NOT the way to get there.

[Aurida]

The funny thing about this proposal is that it won't actually destroy sync cheese, because cheesers are already limiting themselves to 2 duties (LotA and Circus Tower) for 100% of the usual rewards and enabling players to "re-lock" duties in exchange for a 20% penalty won't do anything to prevent that. Players like me, on the other hand, who would willingly re-lock LotA and Circus because we actually WANT non-braindead content, would be taking a 20% PENALTY to our rewards in exchange for a HARDER Alliance Raid roulette experience overall.

I'm on board with the direction you want to go but this is NOT the way to get there.

Yeah, my whole thing is like, in the grand scheme of thing 20% really isn't THAT much, but I guess it goes hand in hand with 'duties with more difficult mechanics or with a longer run time should give more EXP from roulette too,' the way you currently get more from Praetorium than from Castrum, or in leveling roulette the 4-man ARR trials give less proportionately than getting a dungeon. If they made that change too, and so you got higher EXP for Dun Scaith or Orbonne than you did for LotA or Syrcus, I'd gladly take the 20% off of the higher intrinsic amount just to actually get to do gameplay in my roulette.

As it stands, I just kinda don't do alliance raid roulette since the risk of getting LotA/Syrcus is too high as to be unacceptable, so me and others like me just don't contribute to the goal of getting players into those (or any!) duties. I don't think the 20% penalty is all THAT important, but it kind of feels like the thing where there should be a limitation of some kind to its use.