why the crystal tower raids are still part of the roulette?

[Kaurhz]

Tbf, there's no promise or guarantee when you enter a roulette that you will be provided an even spread of content to run. You deal with the content you're given, and are rewarded for doing so.

Yes, you do, and my solution to that is to simply not participate in the roulette in any capacity - I won't even be found doing alliance raid roulette even when the level cap is increased.

This point, however, does not detract from the seriously poor decision-making they've done.

[Iyrnthota]

Yes, you do, and my solution to that is to simply not participate in the roulette in any capacity - I won't even be found doing alliance raid roulette even when the level cap is increased.

This point, however, does not detract from the seriously poor decision-making they've done.

People have proposed numerous potential solutions in this thread and others like it across the internet, but so far I've seen no compelling solution that does not cause problems elsewhere.
I would say that their decision making is not poor, but merely not to your liking.

[Kaurhz]

People have proposed numerous potential solutions in this thread and others like it across the internet, but so far I've seen no compelling solution that does not cause problems elsewhere.
I would say that their decision making is not poor, but merely not to your liking.

I would wager many of the proposed solutions do wind up with a far better one than the one we're being subjected to here, e.g., there's very little downside to splitting alliance according to, say, Level 50/60, 70/80/90. Equally, there's very little reason not to buff the Loathsome memories, or to award them from completion of Alliance roulette itself, rather than just for Crystal Tower. Unless, you can of course tell me a downside to this?

No, I would still call it poor decision-making when their decisions have left certain duties in the roulette oversaturated, especially to the extent that it has become a common point of complaint. I neither like it nor do I find it a good decision on their part. Initially, the MSQ for Shadowbringers was designed so that Crystal Tower wasn't a requirement - Something they added later on in a patch - Arguably anything pertinent to the Shadowbringers story, that was also relevant to the Crystal Tower could have, nay, should have been included within the MSQ as a summary of sorts. - This way, people could do Crystal Tower of their own volition if they wanted to do so.

Furthermore, there is no universe where relic item attainment should have been attached to a very specific raid series (Knowing full well they've saturated it enough with story requirement) - When the easier and much more realistic viable alternative is to just attach it to the roulette rather than specific duties itself, and I am referring to the Law's Order relic step here. This was an extremely poor decision regardless of how you look at it, with arguably even smaller foresight.

[Iyrnthota]

I would wager many of the proposed solutions do wind up with a far better one than the one we're being subjected to here, e.g., there's very little downside to splitting alliance according to, say, Level 50/60, 70/80/90. Equally, there's very little reason not to buff the Loathsome memories, or to award them from completion of Alliance roulette itself, rather than just for Crystal Tower. Unless, you can of course tell me a downside to this?

One of the reasons roulette exist in the first place is to get people populating older content. It makes it so that newer players don't struggle to get groups as they're moving through the story. It's not perfect, but for the most part it fulfills that purpose.
If you put one of the more hated Araids in it's own separate roulette, then you're only going to make it harder for new players to get a group together for it.

The only reason people still do the MSQ roulette is because of the bonkers rewards you get for it, but there's no reason for them to provide the same for a CT roulette when they can just slot it into an existing roulette. Something that previously couldn't be done (and probably still can't) for the MSQ instances due to how different they are from other duties.

No, I would still call it poor decision-making when their decisions have left certain duties in the roulette oversaturated, especially to the extent that it has become a common point of complaint. I neither like it nor do I find it a good decision on their part. Initially, the MSQ for Shadowbringers was designed so that Crystal Tower wasn't a requirement - Something they added later on in a patch - Arguably anything pertinent to the Shadowbringers story, that was also relevant to the Crystal Tower could have, nay, should have been included within the MSQ as a summary of sorts. - This way, people could do Crystal Tower of their own volition if they wanted to do so.

Furthermore, there is no universe where relic item attainment should have been attached to a very specific raid series (Knowing full well they've saturated it enough with story requirement) - When the easier and much more realistic viable alternative is to just attach it to the roulette rather than specific duties itself, and I am referring to the Law's Order relic step here. This was an extremely poor decision regardless of how you look at it, with arguably even smaller foresight.

I don't think there's much more to discuss here, cause it seems we just fundamentally disagree