Alliance Raid Now iLvl Locked, Why??

[PyurBlue]

The problem is people cheese the roulette to make sure they only get CT, which is not fair to the people who don't want to do CT all the time. So you have to make it ilvl and not something else. Yes, if someone only ever has CT unlocked, even at level 90, then it's gonna be CT. But the point is that people can't cheese it anymore, or forget to change their gear and make everyone else suffer because of it.

And the problem with that is that SE choose the worst possible "fix". This is why people are upset. This ilvl thing was in no way required to solve the CT issue.

No one is going to be level 90 with only level 60 gear and their level 60 gear is their best gear.

As it turns out, I ran into someone in nearly this situation the other day. It's actually very common.

So what exactly do people that are way overleveled gain from running Alliance Roulette over manually queing for their 5 favs of the Alliance raids?

They obviously don't need the exp. After all they clearly want to take their time with the MSQ, which means any and all end level content is far out of reach due to being locked behind said MSQ.
And they can still do any of the other roulettes if their need for poetics is that great.(which I seriously doubt with how few Times I can remember not being at cap for those).

My philosophy on games is that they should be built around fun first and foremost. If a player enjoys queuing for alliance but they can't because of a very badly implemented entry requirement, there is a major problem.

Now if you want to focus on practical benefits, I disagree with your position on XP. Some people like to level as fast as possible for a variety of reasons, perhaps they are leveling an alt. Roulettes are a great source of XP per playtime, so adding a needless barrier to the roulette slows those players down, especially if they can't afford to devote unlimited time to the game. I have a few alts and I try to take advantage of Road to X when I level them, which means I have a limited amount of time to benefit from increased XP per time. In such a case it would benefit me to have access to Alliance roulette (although in practice I've avoided that roulette since CT became mandatory). In addition to XP, the same goes for tomes, and perhaps miscellaneous things likes challenge log, events, titles, etc that may depend on access to a specific roulette.

I'm not bothered by buying gear off the market board, I usually do this for alts, but I don't spend a lot on them and while my gear. I can safely exceed the ilvl of the current MSQ, but not necessary reach an ilvl an expansion or two ahead of me, nor should I have to.

The bottom line is, there are much better ways to fix the original problem, and this is why the thread exists.