The Plight of Duty Roulettes

[Souljacker]

The roulettes just aren't rewarding enough for folks to really stick themselves in there more than is absolutely necessary.

I only do them if and when I have something to level, and even then it's only until I get to 71 and can do literally ANYTHING else (Bozja, Trusts, etc).

And I feel like it's unique to this game, where I feel that way. Rift? Did em all day long. WoW? Don't think I spent any time OUTSIDE the queue.

But those games had a lot more flexibility. Your healer lost connection and you're waiting for one to replenish? Oh yea I have a healer spec, I don't do it often but for this one dungeon so we can move along, yea lets roll. Want to double check something in my FC board or see who's online? No worries, you aren't locked out of any panels for arbitrary reasons of "socialize in the dungeon" or whatever stupidity SE implemented that for.

So no, I really, really, really don't want to roll the dice on dungeons here, unless I have to.

And that's even setting aside how brain-dead and dumbed down SE has made so many of the earlier ones, taking out the interesting mechanics because... I guess... folks couldn't do dimension doors or something. So it's either 123 brain dead patchwerk fights or telegraph LITERALLY THE WHOLE FLOOR and dance in and out of the clear spots in half a minute intervals.

I really hope that Dawntrail is something... different.

[Asari5]

i dont think i've ever really had an healer who didnt heal because he dps'ed too much. (well, aside from a few new healers who got tunnelvision, but thats alright they have to learn too. better than just standing around) and i play this game a lot. just because they wait til its efficient to heal, doesnt mean they forget to heal because of dmg.
complain when you're dead. 5% life is still alive

'oh no an auto-attack hit me... again... only 95% life left. healer you have to heal me... 90%, why do you only do dmg? i'm soon gonna be dead. again a healer who forgets to heal me because of dealing dmg' *uses clemenz to heal at 90%*

[TheMightyMollusk]

Whenever I heal, I have a pretty high chance of getting tanks who either single pull (leaving me to just idly spam attack spells most of the time), or tanks who don't use CDs (forcing me to spam heals to keep them off the floor). Sometimes I get a tank who does both to make it an even more awkward combination of stressful and boring.

Whenever I tank.......I'm probably on WAR, so unga bunga kiddos, I'm gonna finish this dungeon with or without you. But it'll go faster if you help out.

Whenever I DPS, I just go with the flow, because if I wanted something else, I had the option to take responsibility for it.

[Espon]

If I didn't get lousy players in my roulettes, I wouldn't have fun stories to tell. Just today I got Titan Extreme in mentor roulette as Summoner and spent the entire time ressing the healers as they took turns being knocked off by Landslides and Upheavels.

[Supersnow845]

2nd worst, the worst are the healers who only focus on doing damage and dont bother to heal

Well I mean the tank doesn’t need the healer anyway so why bother actually healing, you are just wasting button presses

[Zeastria]

TANKS:
⯩The no cd tanks
⯩No-AOE and Tanks who toggle their [tank stance] on/off all the time(in combat, in dungeons).
⯩Only use midigation when they fall below x%.
⯩Use all def cds at once and have zero cds after the 40s mark.
⯩Dosn't use def cds when TB.
⯩The 8+ vul stacks tanks, who eats all dmg - dosnt bother to dodgde/avoid.
⯩The Boss-spinners, no swappers and stackmark -clevers.

HEALERS
⯩POP all heal cds at once.
⯩Constantly overwrite/overheal their co-healers heals.. Like useing direct heals when hots is active.
⯩Ineffective healers; better known as cure 1 / medica II spammers.
(only uses weakest heals, only uses like 2-3 types of heals / dosn't use cds / ogcds)
⯩No dps healers; healers who will just wait around until they see somone who drops down to 1%...
⯩DPS-ONLY-Healer, who refuse to use any global heals,ress,esuna, and push all healer responsibility on their co-healer
(prioritize their own dmg over keeping their party alive).

DPS:
⯩Who stands in front of bosses, gets hit by cleves / TBs.
⯩DNC and BRDS not dancing, playing songs.
⯩DPS who only uses 1-3 abilties , and make fights last forever...
⯩The dps who dosnt dodge/avoid mech - they spend more time dead on the ground than alive.
⯩DPS who dosn't use AOE ( when they have aoe).

Note: Some of these are common mistake new players makes too ,
but new players are forgiven - they dont know better..

[Mawlzy]

Probably an unpopular opinion since most of mine are, but about the only time the crystal tower alliance raids are entertaining is when half the party doesn't know what they're doing.

[Taliriah]

The plight of MMO players describing their gameplay experience:
"everyone else plays the game wrong"

[Gemina]

If you . . .

. . . play DPS, then:
1. your tank will be slow and pull 1 thing at a time
2. your healer will be oblivious

. . . play healer, then:
1. your tank will never use AoE attacks to aggro enemies, so they charge at you instead
2. your DPS will stand in every enemy AoE

. . . play tank, then:
1. your healer will only cast Cure 1 and stand there doing nothing in-between casts
2. your DPS will not know 90% of their abilities and will deal less DPS than you


The fundamental laws of MMOs, as inviolable as the laws of physics!

This is rarely the case for me. My roulettes tend to go like this.

As healer: "I hope I don't get a WAR tank so I can actually do some healing." Annnnnnnd.... of course... A WAR tank. Here comes that one button ST/AoE spam everyone dreads.

As DPS: "At last, time to fight to boss. I can practice my mid-fight rotation during it's more interesting mech.... ah, schite! It's dead already??"

As tank: "OMG, I DoNT kNoW WHat IM DoINg!!"

[nukemind]

Haven’t had (too) much annoyance with roulettes since I came back except the leveling one.

Why. Do. I. Always. Get. Ifrit.

It’s a trial in the dungeon queue and it saps up all that sweet sweet experience I should be getting besides the bonus.