Wife unable to do alliance raid roulette once she hit 60.

[Kozh]

Taste? Absolutely. When I discovered people invest huge amounts of time into the PvE in this game I was shocked and stunned.

Ikr? Why would people even get invested into what essentially the bread and butter of this game?? They should all just stand in limsa and do (e)rp smh

/s

VFX even on limited are way too flashy. Another taste thing compounded by my vision.

If you can't even handle vfx on limited, maybe you should treat it as your problem instead of making other people miserable by making them get a miserable 15 minutes braindead slop.

Er, what? I'm participating in the system as it is presented. I'm cunning, but I can't manipulate rules set by the studio.

It's the fact that you don't want the current system to change/improve so that you can exploit it that makes you come off as being selfish.

[PyurBlue]

Roulettes shouldn’t be pick and choose what content you want

This being a game I have to disagree. If you can pick and choose while still helping queue times, that is only a good thing. Roulettes are already pick and choose to degree because we have multiple roulettes. SE could have made a mentor style roulette and given it to everyone but they didn't. The reasoning behind this is something we can only guess at but it makes sense to me if part of it was to give players some degree of control. Even if that wasn't the case at all, it remains part of the result. If you only want to be eligible for dungeons you can queue for the dungeon roulettes. So why not take that one step further provide some choice within categories of content?

If people are concerned about this creating an imbalance in queue times, we already saw that this wasn't case from the roulette data posted early. CT is a special case because it's required content. Separating it from the other alliance raids in roulette would be perfectly reasonable and address the issues that people have with queueing. Forcing unlocks of other raids might help but it also comes with downsides, so I wouldn't promote it as the best solution.

[Fawkes]

They had already fixed ilvl cheesing for CT prior to this, the recent change does nothing about that. It's so you also have to be geared for the final tier alliance raid you can theoretically do. So I couldn't queue for alliance roulette when leveling all my jobs to 100 because a lot of them I just got to 90 and didn't gear up much beyond AF. I only had Aglaia ilvl and not Thaleia so I couldn't do the roulette at all. I don't think it's a good change, it just seems like an unnecessary inconvenience. People weren't cheesing to get the first raid in a tier. Also it's annoying because now you can't gear up with alliance raid gear from roulette.

[Daralii]

They had already fixed ilvl cheesing for CT prior to this, the recent change does nothing about that. It's so you also have to be geared for the final tier alliance raid you can theoretically do. So I couldn't queue for alliance roulette when leveling all my jobs to 100 because a lot of them I just got to 90 and didn't gear up much beyond AF. I only had Aglaia ilvl and not Thaleia so I couldn't do the roulette at all. I don't think it's a good change, it just seems like an unnecessary inconvenience. People weren't cheesing to get the first raid in a tier. Also it's annoying because now you can't gear up with alliance raid gear from roulette.

SE seems to be actively against the idea of gearing through dungeons or alliance raids instead of strictly tomestones, 8-mans, and the marketboard.

[Mawlzy]

Ikr? Why would people even get invested into what essentially the bread and butter of this game?? They should all just stand in limsa and do (e)rp smh

/s

I don't (E)RP. I focus on the 98% of the game that isn't instanced dungeons/trials/raids. If PvE is the bread and butter of this game, it's in worse shape than I thought.

If you can't even handle vfx on limited, maybe you should treat it as your problem instead of making other people miserable by making them get a miserable 15 minutes braindead slop.

C'mon now. If VFX were a "me problem" I doubt there would be multiple threads and hundreds of posts complaining about how obnoxious VFX in this game have become.

And the idea that I am personally condemning others to content they do not wish to play is... I mean it'd be amusing if it was somehow connected with reality, I guess. I am not responsible for the choices of others. Nor am I responsible for the quality of content.

[CCheshire]

TBH, apart from the latest release, I've always felt AR gear is just for glams and getting rare minions at the end.

I did get a decent variety AR on my BLM alt job during my leveling journey, but I feel like eh HQ gear is cheap enough on the MB for <lvl 100. I didn't mind too much.

[CCheshire]

I just want to say for anyone else who feels anxious for old AR since they don't rmb the mechanics, it's fine.

I do love FFXIV a lot, but I'm quite bad at games overall but I've only quit once due to a rude player; like most ppl don't care since it's old content, along there are always new players who joined in DT.

[Kozh]

I don't (E)RP. I focus on the 98% of the game that isn't instanced dungeons/trials/raids. If PvE is the bread and butter of this game, it's in worse shape than I thought.

So because it's in bad shape, people shouldn't care about it? You're delusional if you think 98% of the game isn't instanced dungeon/trials/raid lmao.

C'mon now. If VFX were a "me problem" I doubt there would be multiple threads and hundreds of posts complaining about how obnoxious VFX in this game have become.

Yeah and most of them are talking about DT content (and some EW), where I agree it has become visual vomit most of the time, especially for trials/raids. But we aren't talking about only them, do we? HW to ShB alliance raids aren't plagued by obnoxious VFX.

And the idea that I am personally condemning others to content they do not wish to play is... I mean it'd be amusing if it was somehow connected with reality, I guess. I am not responsible for the choices of others. Nor am I responsible for the quality of content.

Yet you are against the suggestion to improve the game because you have personal interest in current system. By your own words you don't want to do non CT raids, and we know that just by queueing into CT raid, you pull 23 other people to do it. So yeah, you are condemning others to content they do not wish to play.

[Kozh]

As for being kicked, it seems people had very little patience for my repeated deaths during the Ivalice raids probably BECAUSE it was a mogtome event and they wanted quick, smooth runs and the MCH eating it every other boss and holding them up during cutscenes was chaffing them something fierce.

Lol, AR are able to pull the boss even when someone is in cutscene. Also, you know you can skip cutscenes, right? Why would you watch them everytime you do raid?

Because there's a difference between dying and failing where it only impacts ME and dying and failing where it impacts everyone else. It's the reason I'm still slamming my head into Stage 29 of Masked Carnivale and trying to go deeper in Palace of the Dead, but you'll never catch me doing synced Extreme/Savage, or how stuff like Ultimate/Unreal/Chaotic is completely out of the question.

What I hadn't counted on was that even normal content would get too dicey for me starting with Stormblood, and my dying and failing during 4/8/24-man content ramped up significantly to where I only touch a handful of PVE roulettes at all, and even then I've taken the leaver penalty at times because that's better than being a hindrance in 61+ content.

You tried to do carnival stage and PoTD but somehow can't do ivalice? Sorry if I'm not buying it.

See, you are trying to avoid 61+ content instead of learning from others. Especially now since we have Trust, why don't you learn fight mechanic from that and then applied it when doing roulette?

[Mawlzy]

Yet you are against the suggestion to improve the game because you have personal interest in current system. By your own words you don't want to do non CT raids, and we know that just by queueing into CT raid, you pull 23 other people to do it. So yeah, you are condemning others to content they do not wish to play.

The suggestion wouldn't improve the game, it would make it worse and drive out more players. I have no personal interest beyond a theoretical one since I have all jobs at 100 and have no need to run AR DDR flashbang slop.