Alliance Raid Now iLvl Locked, Why??

[PyurBlue]

It still doesn’t change the fact that if you are overlevelled to the point that you are unable to meet the ilvl requirements you don’t need to be doing the alliance roulette

Which is fine. We're playing a game to have fun.

This change makes it vastly more annoying to ilvl cheese (characters that are already existing have to rely on another person, new players not unlocking the later raids is rare and locks you out from useful things like Bozja)

But it turns out that was probably a rare occurrence, so nothing has really changed.

Saying to check both MSQ and level doesn’t change the fact that if you are overlevelled to the point you are blocked by these requirements you don’t need to do the alliance roulette

Regardless, the alliance roulette shouldn't lock you out for no reason.

And you aren’t blocked from doing the alliance roulette; you just need to go out and buy gear or run it on a different job this also applies for things like the tomestone events , the roulettes are there to fill queues for people who are queuing directly and this update has changed that, now it’s much easier to get nier and ivalice raids because people can’t cheese anymore

No one should have to. They should be able to queue after unlocking the initial requirements, like any other roulette. AR is poorly designed.

As for your point about “many people speedrun the MSQ that’s a small proportion; lucky brancho surveys show that over 80% of level 80% players have access to Bozja, that requires ivalice, lalaachievments only checks achievements so you can hide it but on there over 95% of players have the void ark achievement, the overwhelming majority of the playerbase has the alliance raids unlocked

I don't see why only impacting a minority of players makes a problem go away. We could have a solution that reduces the change of CT popping up (ilvl probably doesn't) while at the same time not being overly complicated or annoying (like AR currently is).

Call it callous but like I said if you are level 84 on your main while during ARR you don’t need to do the alliance roulette

You don't need to anything in something that you opt into. It doesn't matter.

Just to add, there is nothing stopping a newly leveled 60 player from just buying gear to get the required ilvl.

There may be a number of things from lack of funds or knowledge, to MSQ progress.

Agaaaaiiin I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to require this 60 to have endgame-ish 60 gear just to do a roulette that would include the lower 60s…but by 63ish you really can/should be way over ilvl’d for the 60 roulette unless you just don’t want to gear up.

This isn't always an issue of being a couple of levels off. You can hit 70 before MSQ level 50. I've done it, and that's not even being completely efficient at leveling.