A way to spice up expert roulette

[Connor]

Whatever they do, they should do something . Having daily filler tasks that aren’t intended to be fun but a grind is one thing, but I’d like to hope people aren’t cool with expert being extremely dull and predictable because it ‘makes them quicker’.

Is it really so hard for them to be creative with dungeon design? Like what if you had to do an obstacle course or mini jumping puzzle every so often in dungeons? Or like a ‘use these trampolines disguised as a mushroom to ascend to the next area’ and you have to do like a mini Gold Saucer platforming thing? Or a section where you have to ride a mount somewhere while a bunch of aoes goes off. Maybe some ‘randomly-determined location’ teleporter that have a different ‘gimmick’ in each but all lead to the same boss? Or what about a boss with a win condition that isn’t just ‘reduce HP to 0’ like ‘survive for X minutes’ or ‘protect these supply crates / npcs from approaching adds!’ Or something. I think it’d feel so much less tedious if they designed the dungeons to be ‘actually fun’ and not just ‘extremely streamlined efficiency to maximise tomestone grind’ lol. But then I guess that’s impossible because Trusts anyway

[LibitIncarne]

They could just keep all of the level 100 dungeons in the roulette. It's fine now with four dungeons, but as soon as 7.2 drops it's only going to have two. Like, why?

Because there's going to be Duty Roulette: Level 100 Dungeons?

[ArchlordPie]

Because there's going to be Duty Roulette: Level 100 Dungeons?

But WHY though?

They've been doing roulettes this way since ARR. The 2-4 (depending on what patch it is) most recent dungeons go in Expert, all the rest of the current level cap dungeons go in Level Whatever Dungeons.

Why not just leave all the max level dungeons in Expert Roulette for the whole expansion, and then move them to High Level Dungeons when the next expansion launches? That'd fix the late-expansion Expert dungeon variety problem immedately.

Answer: Because Level Whatever Dungeons as a roulette grants a fat pile of uncapped tomes and exists to help expansion latecomers get caught up to current patch gear strength without having to bankrupt themselves on crafted gear. In a world where all the level cap dungeons were left in Expert all expansion, we'd need something to fill that gap.

[Toutatis]

Answer: Because Level Whatever Dungeons as a roulette grants a fat pile of uncapped tomes and exists to help expansion latecomers get caught up to current patch gear strength without having to bankrupt themselves on crafted gear. In a world where all the level cap dungeons were left in Expert all expansion, we'd need something to fill that gap.

Another reason is that the gear drops from Expert dungeons meets the requirements to clear regular content. I just got an alt quickly through EW and DT and this gear was very welcomed for the first week as I didn’t have enough tomes to gear up my left side on the 3 roles I played (having a healer and tank greatly speeds up unlocking dungeons).