PLEASE fix the older ARs

[Supersnow845]

A lot of people don't bother unlocking alliance raids or doing roulette on lower level jobs for the sake of levelling.
What's the incentive to actually unlock higher level ARs? Do they give more exp? No. Do they give more tomestones? No. Do they even provide unique rewards that are worth farming? Save for first Nier raid that had glamour gear set, no. The most efficient way to do alliance roulettes is to enforce crystal tower, one way or another, and most efficient way will be the way most of the people will do it.

Which is exactly why they should block not unlocking the other ones

Using them for levelling is okay but if you intentionally only unlock crystal tower you are straight up a drain on the roulettes resources and you shouldn’t be rewarded for it, you aren’t helping you are a waste of resources

You should not be able to use the alliance or Normal raid roulette without every single one unlocked possible for your current level

[KiraRavens]

The reason this occurs is because the probability of 1 in 22 people being on a level 50-59 job is extremely high, combined with the sheer number of people that queue for Crystal Tower for the MSQ and due to it being the lowest level one to unlock.

It's similar to why more often than not, Normal Raid roulette is Fist of the Father - the very first and lowest level one possible.

In both cases, the main exception is the max level ones, which also pop quite frequently in roulettes due to the sheer number of direct queues for max level raids.

It's not something that SE can really fix without reducing the number of people required for old Alliance Raids, or implementing NPC complements for shortages.

There's a ton of ways to fix this - this is one of them.
I'm not suggesting any specific way, I'd just really like for them to give this some thought and make it accessible again to those players who wanna run them.

[CCheshire]

Yeah, it's hard to get even a PF going for old EW ARs, even when I said it was unsync'd for glam farm there were often no one else would join me, as I waited 1 hour alone there.

I would say that I would keep trying on prime time for a few days to be sure, as DF at least has a chance to fill on its own as alot of the DT relics require you to do ARs for a step.

[Alicie]

they adjusted exp gain from some a-raids at some point during EW. especially the lvl 90 raids are pretty good on the exp side

but people dont care, they just wanna go fast and braindead.

They did not adjust it enough. Also "some" is not enough, it should be "all"

Yes, which is exactly a factor that could be addressed...

It's just such a pity that there's so much dead content in this game that's actually not bad at all - just boring or even impossible to play without others. Myths of the Realm is REALLY good, in fact.

At the very least add more NPC support?

Also, if anyone saw this here and queued - thank you very much.
The queue finally popped half an hour ago.

It could easily be addressed. I would personally love to farm alliance raids, if there was something worthy out of them. But alas, SE decides to put all the effort into mog station store only nowadays.

An alternative and far better idea would be to make unlocking ARs mandatory to use the ROULETTE ITS SELF as its purpose was to help fill queues where one literally gambles to be placed anywhere in exchange for bonus rewards. This would inevitably push both those who don't know or purposely skip other ARs to seek them out (like it or not) if they want to continue using the alliance raid roulette function.

Which is exactly why they should block not unlocking the other ones

Using them for levelling is okay but if you intentionally only unlock crystal tower you are straight up a drain on the roulettes resources and you shouldn’t be rewarded for it, you aren’t helping you are a waste of resources

You should not be able to use the alliance or Normal raid roulette without every single one unlocked possible for your current level

In this case, rewards for doing AR roulette needs to be bumped significantly, to the point where one run grants you 5 levels at high level or gives you a whole tomestone cap, because otherwise you'll be looking at a roulette that has garbage rewards and is not worth to unlock at all. And so you just won't have people for these raids anyway.

[Supersnow845]

In the case of the alliance roulette a small group of people who have everything unlocked is BETTER than a large roulette full of crystal tower only people simply because people with only CT unlocked are an active drain on the roulette. Like you actively don’t want them there

[Alicie]

In the case of the alliance roulette a small group of people who have everything unlocked is BETTER than a large roulette full of crystal tower only people simply because people with only CT unlocked are an active drain on the roulette. Like you actively don’t want them there

New players will drag you into CT anyway. It takes only 1 new player or player below level 60 to drag 23 other people into CT. And you are significantly shrinking pool of candidates for roulette by excluding people who don't have all alliance raids unlocked.

For example, I have CT unlocked, first two Nier raids and Endwalker raids. I will occasionally queue in and occasionally it will be Nier/Myths. Would you really like to exclude players who have only partial unlocks? Cause I won't be going out of my way unlocking other raids unless rewards are extraordinarily good.

Or, alternatively: require unlocking of all alliance raids for roulette, sure. But also give us a button that says: "I do not care about alliance raids stories, just unlock them all right now". Then it will become such a non issue.
By the way, similar approach could be used for optional dungeons, optional trials and normal raids. Am I going to bother unlocking them all just so they can proc in roulette? Hell no. Will I, however, press a button to instantly unlock all of them? May as well.

[Dreadlime]

I've been doing unlock quests as they become available, but I pretty much only do ARs through the roulette. Trying to queue for them directly hasn't really worked, and I've had more success just letting them show up randomly. The only alliance raids I haven't finished are ones from Endwalker. Euphrosyne will show up eventually... Probably.

[Supersnow845]

New players will drag you into CT anyway. It takes only 1 new player or player below level 60 to drag 23 other people into CT. And you are significantly shrinking pool of candidates for roulette by excluding people who don't have all alliance raids unlocked.

For example, I have CT unlocked, first two Nier raids and Endwalker raids. I will occasionally queue in and occasionally it will be Nier/Myths. Would you really like to exclude players who have only partial unlocks? Cause I won't be going out of my way unlocking other raids unless rewards are extraordinarily good.

Or, alternatively: require unlocking of all alliance raids for roulette, sure. But also give us a button that says: "I do not care about alliance raids stories, just unlock them all right now". Then it will become such a non issue.
By the way, similar approach could be used for optional dungeons, optional trials and normal raids. Am I going to bother unlocking them all just so they can proc in roulette? Hell no. Will I, however, press a button to instantly unlock all of them? May as well.

My point basically remains unchanged, you shouldn’t be rewarded with access to a high xp roulette if you aren’t willing to unlock all alliance raids and the fact that people levelling already tilt it towards CT is exactly the reason why people shouldn’t be able to queue for it at near max level with only CT unlocked

If you are too lazy to unlock the raids then you just don’t get the roulette

[Ninaran]

More people would probably unlock newer raids if they weren't such a slog to get through. You can do two runs of a Crystal Tower raid in the time it takes you to do one run of Dun Scaith or any of the Nier raids it feels like.
The bosses need to have their HP lowered.

[YumieYumiki]

Myself I haven't unlocked the EW raids on this char because I find them boring. I don't like the aesthetic, I don't like the music, I don't like the lore, I don't find most of the mechanics engaging, and they just feel like a slog. The last boss is such a chore with its interminable sequential reproduction of some mechanic of every other boss. Urgh.

I used to be even more disappointed when I got aglaia than when I got syrcus tower.

It's not about it taking time versus CT being fast to clear though. I'm happy to sit through a long raid that I enjoy. I like San Doria a lot for instance.