Expert roulette.

[Valence]

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.

I used to like doing expert roulette before ShB and diligently did it almost every day. Some dungeons were better than others, but the quality of the gameplay wasn't necessarily found in the dungeon encounters (they mostly haven't changed much), but in the older battle system, which today, has turned into a bad joke.
I used to be an avid expert enjoyer to chill and have fun, and today I barely run any at all, although now that I've stopped raiding I'll be forced to go back to it at least a little I guess... At least we don't have luigi's mansion anymore, but who knows what DDR horrors could follow?

This so much, back then when we had the... Anamesis Anyder? That dungeon where you had the whale for the first few minutes (worst. dungeon. design. EVER.) for ages due the Pandemic it was worst, for the first time i was leaving ex roulette as i could not bear any more runs there... i want the HW times back. Two dungeons is the bare minimum required.

The whale section was annoying with forced singled pulls, but once you were past it, it actually had a lot of unusual and cool elements, notably the first boss with a double boss (and people actually eating shit to it), and the second and third trash pulls had no walls so you could pull crazy big.

[Kuroka]

The whale section was annoying with forced singled pulls, but once you were past it, it actually had a lot of unusual and cool elements, notably the first boss with a double boss (and people actually eating shit to it), and the second and third trash pulls had no walls so you could pull crazy big.

It was like cutting my leg with an rusty saw, drenched in acid and salt.................
It hurt double, the whole whale part shouldve been a solo duty, with the dungeon being fully the ruin....