The Reward for Story Roulette Not Worth the Time

[Marxam]

Look at it this way. Easy player recommendations. I always get minimum of two every time I run Prae and I don't even stick around. I just say "gg" and leave.

[Lemuria]

I think if anything the roulette needs to be expanded so that you can end up in literally ANY story mission that needs party members. Making it solely for level 50 dungeons doesn't seem particularly helpful. If someone was actually trying to complete it for their progression, then roulette could genuinely help people who need it rather than exist solely to group people who have probably already completed their story.

[Teykos]

I think if anything the roulette needs to be expanded so that you can end up in literally ANY story mission that needs party members. Making it solely for level 50 dungeons doesn't seem particularly helpful. If someone was actually trying to complete it for their progression, then roulette could genuinely help people who need it rather than exist solely to group people who have probably already completed their story.

This is already done in the "Low level" roulette.

People frequently get Ifrit and I've even heard of someone getting a Titan with it. The XP bonus for helping that is really good too if you're sub-50 (assuming you are already capped on tomes and don't care about Philosophy if you have a 50...)

[Sub-Xero]

Edit: I was definitely wrong.

[rabbitzero]

Low level only covers up to 47. At least, that's what the description says when you read it. This means that Cape Westwind is not covered by any of the Duty Roulettes.

Got in that the other day, i forget which, story i think, but i did get placed in it.

[RavenL]

Low level only covers up to 47. At least, that's what the description says when you read it. This means that Cape Westwind is not covered by any of the Duty Roulettes.

That is wrong.

Duty Roulette: Low Level

Duties
Sastasha / The Tam-Tara Deepcroft / Copperbell Mines / Halatali / The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak / Haukke Manor / Brayflox's Longstop / The Sunken Temple of Qarn / Cutter's Cry / The Stone Vigil / Dzemael Darkhold / The Aurum Vale / The Bowl of Embers / The Navel / The Howling Eye / Cape Westwind

Bonuses
Gil / Company Seals / Allagan Tomestones of Mythology / Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy

Duty Roulette: High Level

Duties
The Wanderer's Palace / Amdapor Keep / Copperbell Mines (Hard) / Haukke Manor (Hard) / Pharos Sirius

Bonuses
Gil / Allagan Tomestones of Mythology

* An average item level of 48 is required

Duty Roulette: Main Scenario

Duties
Castrum Meridianum / The Praetorium

Bonuses
Gil / Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy

Duty Roulette: Guildhests

Duty Roulette: Guildhests
Basic Training: Enemy Parties / Under the Armor / Basic Training: Enemy Strongholds / Hero on the Halfshell / Pulling Poison Posies / Stinging Back / All's Well that Ends in the Well / Flicking Sticks and Taking Names / More than a Feeler / Annoy the Void / Shadow and Claw / Long Live the Queen / Ward Up / Solemn Trinity

Bonuses
Gil / Company Seals

* Allagan Tomestones will only be awarded to players who have achieved level 50 in at least one class.
* Each Duty Roulette category will become available when two or more applicable duties are unlocked.

[Sub-Xero]

That is wrong.

You're right. I've been playing on a very blurry and terrible TV on the already bad looking PS3 version of the game over at my friends house for the past few days and only saw the dungeons part while missing the trials part of the description. I knew it seemed awkward that it only went up to 47. Glad to know that Cape Westwind is not forgotten as that'd kinda suck for people that needed it.

[Sylve]

45 - 60 minutes for 300 tomes as opposed to 80 tomes for 20 - 30 minutes? The average WP run takes 20 minutes. For the majority of players gearing up with Philo Tomes, 300 tomes in an hour is a godsend.

[Sunah]

I actually did this for the first time and had a few people saying "hey let that new guy watch this". People surprisingly followed through and allowed me to finish up until the last boss. Which by the time I got out of the cut scenes the last boss was at 3% hp haha... I don't blame them because i can always run through it as many times as i want later. But I would rather not skip a cut scene because I really want to experience the story as much as I can.

[Alberel]

I actually did this for the first time and had a few people saying "hey let that new guy watch this". People surprisingly followed through and allowed me to finish up until the last boss. Which by the time I got out of the cut scenes the last boss was at 3% hp haha... I don't blame them because i can always run through it as many times as i want later. But I would rather not skip a cut scene because I really want to experience the story as much as I can.

That situation with the last boss is usually the result of a really annoying bug that causes some party members to start the fight right in the middle of the arena and thus instantly getting aggro as soon as they skip the cutscene. I usually just tell my parties to stop doing damage if it happens, he doesn't really do much besides an occasional AOE.

With regards to the OP though: 300 philo/hr is the highest rate in the game if you're specifically after philosophy for some reason. It is more than worth it to many players.