Add iLevel restrictions to Alliance Roulette

[Harpeizanae]

Two potential solutions that I'm not the first to talk about

Personal solution: Leave duty. Try again later. Additionally queue for your favorite alliance raids outside of your own roulette to populate other players alliance roulette with different content.

Solution two (Which will never become reality): I hate to say it. But copy World of Tanks, each player is able to blacklist one map, with premium you can blacklist a second map. I can only speculate but I bet most players don't mind LoTA/Syrcus/WoD, so it should impact those queues minimally.

How Do I Exclude a Map in a Standard Battle?

• Every player can exclude one map. With WoT Premium Account, you can exclude two maps.
• You can exclude a map only for Standard Battles.
• You can change the excluded map every four hours.
• If a Platoon enters a battle, maps excluded by the Platoon Commander apply.
• Excluded maps do not apply:

• to Tier I–III vehicles
• to Encounter Battles, Grand Battles, and Assault.

https://eu.wargaming.net/support/en/...article/15744/

[Saraide]

Two potential solutions that I'm not the first to talk about

Personal solution: Leave duty. Try again later. Additionally queue for your favorite alliance raids outside of your own roulette to populate other players alliance roulette with different content.

Solution two (Which will never become reality): I hate to say it. But copy World of Tanks, each player is able to blacklist one map, with premium you can blacklist a second map. I can only speculate but I bet most players don't mind LoTA/Syrcus/WoD, so it should impact those queues minimally.

How Do I Exclude a Map in a Standard Battle?

• Every player can exclude one map. With WoT Premium Account, you can exclude two maps.
• You can exclude a map only for Standard Battles.
• You can change the excluded map every four hours.
• If a Platoon enters a battle, maps excluded by the Platoon Commander apply.
• Excluded maps do not apply:

• to Tier I–III vehicles
• to Encounter Battles, Grand Battles, and Assault.

https://eu.wargaming.net/support/en/...article/15744/

Yo time to never see paradigm's breach ever again!

[TaleraRistain]

Yo time to never see paradigm's breach ever again!

Yep, that's the one that would be in my sights. Guaranteed 40 minute run if all goes well because of damage sponge bosses. More if it doesn't.

[Bsrking5]

ilvl cheese is the least of the issues with it. It's the lowest lvl and mandatory so everyone doing alliance raid roulette is in selection.

Making the others mandatory would help, some but with it being the easiest, it would need to be correctly rebalanced which SE should have done with the stat squish but didn't, means people will ilvl cheese it still. Moving it to msq roulette is completely not viable since the dungeons in it are 4 man's, they'll never pop as it stands now.

The current msq dungeons should be scooted over into the leveling like they used to be and remove the lock on cutscenes. It has trust, do it with trust to see them in full. And in it's stead the CT raids should be alone there, as the cheapest, easiest and fastest way to fix this.
And what about void ark? Nothing, it's fine. That's a non-issue.

[NekoMataMata]

Two potential solutions that I'm not the first to talk about

Personal solution: Leave duty. Try again later. Additionally queue for your favorite alliance raids outside of your own roulette to populate other players alliance roulette with different content.

Solution two (Which will never become reality): I hate to say it. But copy World of Tanks, each player is able to blacklist one map, with premium you can blacklist a second map. I can only speculate but I bet most players don't mind LoTA/Syrcus/WoD, so it should impact those queues minimally.

How Do I Exclude a Map in a Standard Battle?

• Every player can exclude one map. With WoT Premium Account, you can exclude two maps.
• You can exclude a map only for Standard Battles.
• You can change the excluded map every four hours.
• If a Platoon enters a battle, maps excluded by the Platoon Commander apply.
• Excluded maps do not apply:

• to Tier I–III vehicles
• to Encounter Battles, Grand Battles, and Assault.

https://eu.wargaming.net/support/en/...article/15744/

We'll have a total of 15 alliance raids when the EW set finishes. Alliance raids comprise of 24 players though. We definitely couldn't allow people to blacklist multiple raids. It'd be a mess.

To add to this, groups that queue together would have a well diversified blacklist. Imagine if 8 players queue together in a group. That's 8 unique blacklists, over half of the existing raids currently and half of them even after EW finishes. It wouldn't be fair, and if anything, it'd create the potential for trolls to try and break the queues altogether.

And finally, alliance raid queues die off at certain times on most servers. This would probably harm queue times further during those times.

Even a single blacklist would be asking for way too much.

[Baxcel]

I think OP is a bit confused, these restrictions already exist. You can't queue for like world of darkness if your itemlevel is below 90. That is the reason why if you push your itemlevel below that you will only get either crystal tower or labyrinth.

Fact tho is that SE can never change this cause of how the roulette works, you can complete the msq without ever doing a different raid than the crystal tower raids. So if a player who has only ever done these queues for alliance raid roulette it will be anyways just one of these 3. Which is one of the reasons why the crystal tower series, as the mandatory msq raid, will ALWAYS pop much more frequently than any other alliance raid even without the cheese.

Sucks i know but there is literally nothing that can be ever changed or will get changed about it, put your energy into something else than crying over it i would say, just move on.

They could change it to be like Mentor roulette and its locked until you have all the raids unlocked or at least the highest raid for your highest level chr and then add the ilvl requirement

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

We'll have a total of 15 alliance raids when the EW set finishes. Alliance raids comprise of 24 players though. We definitely couldn't allow people to blacklist multiple raids. It'd be a mess.

To add to this, groups that queue together would have a well diversified blacklist. Imagine if 8 players queue together in a group. That's 8 unique blacklists, over half of the existing raids currently and half of them even after EW finishes. It wouldn't be fair, and if anything, it'd create the potential for trolls to try and break the queues altogether.

And finally, alliance raid queues die off at certain times on most servers. This would probably harm queue times further during those times.

Even a single blacklist would be asking for way too much.

My guess is if they ever made this sort of blacklist a thing, they will only take account of party leader's blacklist just like how players cannot join a PF of somebody they blacklisted but can still end up in the same PF.

[Nyxs]

Enforcing that you must have all 24-man raids unlocked is not a huge ask.
Especially since this would only apply to people who want to use the roulette.
Also 24-man raids should have strict ilvl syncs to ensure they can never truly be overgeared for.

Why should people be forced to unlock and do optional content they dont want to do? Thats a hard no. If you want to do a certain one queue it directly or accept your roulette.

[Ayche]

Why should people be forced to unlock and do optional content they dont want to do? Thats a hard no. If you want to do a certain one queue it directly or accept your roulette.

Because roulettes are basically volunteering to get bodies into old content.
If you want the roulette rewards, you gotta be willing to volunteer to run content you don't personally like.
If you never want to take the risk of running old content you have zero tolerance for, just forgo the roulette rewards.

[Alpheus]

It might break their DF algorithim/programming but the only fair way to fix things (w/o them shoving CT into its own roulette with separate roulette rewards, which I think the Devs are hesitant to do) is for there to be a ilvl check and if you are the reason CT was chosen you'll get the EXP and other rewards we get currently, but if you're ilvl is high enough to qualify for a non CT raid and you end up in CT anyway due to somebody else then you get additional rewards (can even have that be tiered even further, with the highest tier being available for meeting the EW 24 man raids ilvl requirements) for not participating in ilvl cheese. If all 24 people get CT due to the DF's roll of the dice then everyone gets enhanced rewards.

This sidesteps the issue of people who legitimately need the clear being punished or quarantined off into their own roulette category/pool of possible players.