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    Avoidy's Avatar
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    Jun 2020
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    Character
    Chadhadai Oronir
    World
    Balmung
    Main Class
    Ninja Lv 83
    Imagine liking one of the expert dungeons but not liking the other one. Now your "roulette" is just a 50% shot to do something you hate for 20 minutes. Cool!
    This sort of thing is actually why I stopped doing roulettes, and eventually just stopped playing the game altogether. Expert's dungeons weren't particularly enjoyable to me. Leveling roulette lost all incentive once I got my favorite jobs to cap. Alliance was almost always crystal tower. Only trial and normal raid really felt enjoyable, but the deck was so heavily stacked in ARR/HW slop that eventually I stopped doing those as well unless I was really really bored or something. But it'd always be Alexander 1, or The Chrysalis and so I'd immediately regret doing it. Hell, last night was my first time back on the game in months. I was here on the free login period. I queued up trial roulette for old time's sake... got the chrysalis! every time, man.

    I really think these types of dailies just burn people out and make them resent the game and the community after enough time. The reward for your time is paltry, especially late in the expac when the tome stuff isn't worth jack and the gearing is kinda done. The actual encounters you're likely to run into are level 50 slop. The people you'll meet are afraid to even speak half the time and generally aren't fun to play with. So why bother with it? Capping tomes? "Just do a hunt train." AKA spend 45 minutes silently following a parade of mounts from point A to point B. Is this it? Is this the critically acclaimed multiplayer experience everybody talked about? God help you if you don't find raiding enjoyable, or can't be satisfied by mindless collect-a-thons like fishing, because then this is literally it; this is the game. Log on, stand in your front yard, and queue trial roulette while hoping it's not Lahabrea or that skywhale. And maybe ERP when daddy logs in, but that's if you even have a daddy.
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    Last edited by Avoidy; 02-01-2025 at 06:46 AM.