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    Deveryn Ev'liarsh
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    Quote Originally Posted by Midareyukki View Post
    But it does point at least to an exploitable flaw in the roulette's design. It's Alliance Raid roulette, yet it's capable of being conditioned by ilv.

    You don't see this being done anywhere near as frequently with other roulettes that feature low-level stuff like level roulette or 50-80 roulette. There, the odds of getting ARR/HSW instances are conditioned due to their number in comparison to later expansion instances and the amount of players actually at that level.

    Alliance Raid Roulette so far has 12/13 instances, 3 per expansion, far fewer than most other roulettes save Expert and Lv 90. Yet when the same 3 keep showing up with far more frequency than the others, and the fact that people reduce item level specifically to proc them is so noticeable, it does at least show the problem isn't just that there are more people in ARR content/people who haven't unlocked the other instances. And that aspect is exploitable, thus there is something to fix.
    There's a loophole. I won't deny that. I think it's the only place where such a thing occurs, aside from maybe a handful of people that want to do trials at a lower level. I still believe the resulting problem is hard to pin solely on ilvl cheese. I've done a few roulettes in the past couple months and I haven't seen CT at all. I do remember a time when it was an everyday thing, but I think those people have since moved on, having gotten all their xp. I think it's going to be hard for them to look at the data and see proof of such a thing and harder still for anyone to be able to log a sufficient number of events to say that this is such a big problem. You can have people doing this and still have people show up in the list that are actually under 60. Going back to that time when it did happen more, it was around that time of the WoW flood, so it's likely that we had a lot of true newbs at the time and we still do.
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    Last edited by Deveryn; 11-01-2022 at 03:50 AM.