Duty Roulette - an end to FC friends running dungeons together.

[Undrentide]

Is it just my FC or not but since the introduction of Duty Roulette i dont see my ls/fc friends anymore. Everyone queues seperately, and by the time everyone's done the 3 daily roulettes and dailies its the evening gone and people are logging off for the night.
Im finding FFXIV is becoming an increasingly solo experience, whereas before this patch people were always talking in chat, finding parties to run AK and WP, run the primals etc and everyone hit myth cap. Now i struggle to reach myth cap because no one wants to team up anymore and i loathe going into the high level df with people i dont know due to the rudeness of people who know they arent going to see other party members again.
Would it be possible for SE to allow us to queue with friends at least partly and still get the roulette bonus?

[Xystic]

We each do our roulettes for the insane points and then we do our normal dungeon runs and etc afterwards.

The mindset of your FC has changed based off your post. You need to find other players who still want to do what you want to do.

[Bixby]

Would it be possible for SE to allow us to queue with friends at least partly and still get the roulette bonus?

Greetings,

The development team actually had the idea to allow players to queue up for the Duty Roulette as a party since the planning stages of this feature, and they are currently working on this. We’ll be sure to keep you updated on the implementation timing as development progresses.

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[Dragonskin]

You know in other games... that should not be mentioned... you can do your random daily dungeons with groups and still get your bonus. I assumed this was the case when I re-subbed to XIV. The other night my low level friends were on and I thought it would be a good opportunity to help them with a dungeon and I would still get some philo tomes... NOPE.. can't queue as a party for random daily??? seriously?? I would have thought surely that would have been one of the incentives to get high level players going to low dungeons... help FC or friends out.

My friends never even got to 50 and quit well before I did. They come back and I have several 50s... Cancelled my sub again. Tired of the endless dungeon grind that has been in every MMO before this one. Old formula is old. FFXI lasted longer just because it took so much longer to level in that game. I might stick around if I could level sync outside of FATEs or Dungeons.. but I can't.

[statikcat]

Interesting you brought this up. I leveled to 50 shortly after my brother to play together. Now we each run two roulettes .. one for phil and one for myth. Of course you can't que as a group. After that on most days we are done. The roulette is nice because it lets you do 1-2 dungeons a day and make decent progress but it also makes you want to run subsequent runs less. Depends on your free time I guess. I wish roulette you could que as a group just limited to 2. That is a good 2 hours a day people are not spending with friends/fc and being rewarded for it.

[Rekujen]

The whole point of Duty Roulette was to help all the low level characters and people stuck in story queue times, it was designed to increase queue times for those people considering Duty Finder is required to continue the story.

That being said, letting people queue up in groups wouldn't have affected that goal anyway, because not EVERYONE is gonna pre-made queue, there's heaps of solo and duo players out there... heaps of friends play together, couples, etc etc.

Glad they are changing this.

[statikcat]

The whole point of Duty Roulette was to help all the low level characters and people stuck in story queue times, it was designed to increase queue times for those people considering Duty Finder is required to continue the story.

That being said, letting people queue up in groups wouldn't have affected that goal anyway, because not EVERYONE is gonna pre-made queue, there's heaps of solo and duo players out there

Glad they are changing this.

You can do the early dungeon roulette and get 10 extra phil?? Most people will run the two high lv roulettes first and often times be tapped out by then. Considering early dungeon roulette does not allow you to play with friends .. they should increase the phil bonus to 50 or something once a day. Not to mention you can get full phil so fast anyway the early dungeon roulette is pointless once you are done. I like the concept though.. it helps lower lvs go faster for sure w que times.

[Muzy]

Low level is 10 myth and 100 philo, ms is the 200 extra philo.

[AmnesiaHaze]

yes its true , since the introtuction of duty roulette im torn everyday between selfish bonus greed and the desire to play with my friends

[Caraway]

This is just another way that SE has shown they don't want to build a community. Or alternatively, that they don't understand how communities outside of Japan are built.

Sad to say but Westerners (stereotyping here, look out!) have a penchant for being selfish and ignorant of the rest of their community.

It's shown pretty heavily in every game mechanic we have currently save for Coil. Duty Finder itself is antagonistic to community building because you will never ever speak with the people you run with ever again (nor can you block those you wouldn't want to speak with). FATEs encouraged you to focus on the enemy and DPS to the point of ignoring helping a tank just because they weren't in your FATE group. The story itself forces you to solo to go through it.

I am very much looking forward to them making the change to Duty Roulette, but I would honestly rather them fix the glaring problem with inter-server communications. I want to be able to party/talk with people on other servers after a really good dungeon run with them. I want to see people helping others just because it's the nice thing to do, not because there's a tome reward for doing the bare minimum.