Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
And I will point to the date of that nerf: well over a year after Orbonne was released. In other words, the raid was nerfed long after its relevancy. You're also confusing the actual reason why they nerfed it. People were leaving because it simply isn't worthwhile EXP wise to run Orbonne over spamming Crystal Tower. Unlike Rabanastre and Ridorana which were power crept due to ilvl syncing, Orbonne wasn't. At least not anywhere to the same extent. To further bolster this point, people have been asking for Echo for the Nier raids which were notoriously easy. They still take 30-40 minutes when LotA takes fifteen and offers the exact same rewards.

The primary issue with Alliance Roulette has always been the imbalanced rewards; something the devs refuse to address. It's why getting Nier raids to pop nowadays will set you back potentially hours. Nobody wants to do them.
This is another problem with Alliance Raids. The argument that everything needs to be as easy as Crystal Tower otherwise people will just dodge it is not a problem with the raid being too hard, it's a problem with Alliance Raid tuning in general. For the life of me I don't understand why they won't implement ilvl sync into Alliance Raids because it creates such a ridiculous gap between the 1st tier raid and the 3rd tier raid despite having the same rewards. Crystal Tower itself is a whole entire problem on its own since it's mandatory for MSQ. I feel like at this point it should just be separated into its own roulette.

Even worse is that it makes the older raids into jokes and you never get to play them as intended once their patch is over and everyone outgears them. Regardless of how you feel about Alliance Raid difficulty, who really thinks it's a good thing that you can just skip the balance mechanic in Nald'thal because he dies so fast? By 6.5 and onwards when people outgear the raid by 60-70 ilvls a new player will NEVER get to see that mechanic unless they do a PF group that runs min ilvl or stops DPS on purpose. The devs are just ruining their own content they worked so hard on.