Disable the 30 minute penalty but only for Crystal Tower raids

[ExiaKuromonji]

ARR in general brings down roulettes by a mile, no one wants to go over the same old content with a boring half rotation.

Either make the content actually fun (which should be the case) or at the very least make a ARR roulette for all the ARR content so I can actually get something fun for once

If they did they'd just give them all long telegraphed AoEs, absolutely nothing unique, triple/quadruple the boss HP (like with Ultima Weapon) and you keep your boring 50 rotation. So the content is just as boring for twice+ the duration.

I wouldn't be opposed to putting CT on the MSQ roulette.

[Allooutrick]

Alternative propositions: move crystal tower raids to msq roulette or make a new roulette for crystal tower.

[dspguy]

All of these "Suchandsuch Roulette is terrible" threads all boil down to this:

You are running old content in exchange for rewards greater than that content gives you without roulette. You exchange your choice of content for a reward. If you want to keep your choice, don't run roulette.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

You'd think queueing for what we want would give us what we want? Oh that would be a nice sweet summer day...

But alas, I did queued directly for those rare ARs quite often. Four to five of them at once in fact.

If I'm lucky, they pop and I'm able to get into those duties under 20m. But that's not the case oftentime. What happens more often is it took 30m to pop, then somebody somehow bails or afk and forces me back into queue again for... uhh... another 30m... lol... instead of repopping.

[Gurgeh]

They're part of the MSQ and the duty finder searches from the lowest level duties and up. Even if they were removed from every piece of side content and had XP, gear, and tomestones removed, they would still come up more than any other alliance raids.

I get you. But even so, it would show they were making the effort if they did strip it. I mean, right now, every reason to run it that you can remove, the better. I don't believe it would take all that long to queue pulling form just the rouls. Like I say though if not that... then just 'sync/tune' the alliances down again. I mean... those ARR alliances have probably got great content 75% of have never played! When its the content 100% of us have played the most. Its nuts.

[CuteBucket]

Better idea, make jobs fun at level 50, the mechanics of the Crystal Tower raids actually be interesting and have mechanics again, or better yet, BOTH! Then we won't have to ask ourselves if we're willing to take the 30 minute timeout every time we hear the Labyrinth of the Ancients music start up again.

[chip793]

The better solution would be to lock the roulette behind having each alliance raid actually unlocked with the current ilvl requirements instead of just gating it behind ilvl relative to each expansion. But short of CT, the only other A raids that gate content are used to gate entirely optional content. There's the issue.

[Xactly]

I remembered when I was leveling a job that changes between levels often (I'm speaking of BLM), that I had actions being thrown at me as if I bought a level boost. Because the level 70+ duties only happened to pop once I got lv 80.
But can't remember if it was around a time where the free trial got the Stormblood expansion.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Aside from World of Darkness potentially. doing the ARR alliance raids is faster than waiting through the 30 min penalty.

[Regis_Paran]

The better solution would be to lock the roulette behind having each alliance raid actually unlocked with the current ilvl requirements instead of just gating it behind ilvl relative to each expansion. But short of CT, the only other A raids that gate content are used to gate entirely optional content. There's the issue.

That wouldn't solve anything. As long as AR are not mandatory for MSQ, a lot of players won't bother doing them (especially new players for previous expansions), even if it potentially meant locking themselves out of one roulette. The most likely result would be queue time skyrocketing and players still leving the raids they hate.