Any Word On Group Roulette?

[niwaar]

I have been reading all the dev posts and information that is coming out with what is "In" and what is "Out" of patch 2.2 lately. Up until now though its been about Chocobos and how you can't queue in the Duty Finder with them out. I see this as a minor issue that while it needs to be fixed is not as immediate as some other lingering things.

So I ask about "Group Roulette". My friend who I have played MMOs with since meeting her in Rolanberry Fields a decade ago and I can not play together near as much due to our real life commitments. When added to the fact that we are in need of running solo queues in order to cap our Tomes for the week we just do not have near as much fun in the game. So are we going to finally be able to do this content together in 2.2 and be rewarded with the roulette bonus or are we stuck apart for another 3 months?

[Tule]

The point of the roulette is to get players to play old content so it doesn't dry up. If they implement a group roulette people will only play with their friends again and pugs, newbies and people who are soloing will have 18 hour ques again.

[Lyrinn]

The point of the roulette is to get players to play old content so it doesn't dry up. If they implement a group roulette people will only play with their friends again and pugs, newbies and people who are soloing will have 18 hour ques again.

Easy fix: don't give the roulette bonus if you queue as a full premade. This still lets new players progress while letting people play with a friend or two.

[Renik]

yes please, let us que with friends in DR, i find very boring this dungeon grind system, at least you can have some fun when you do it with friends, but since 2.1 i have done like 3 dungeons with friends, because doing roulette alone is faster and more rewarding than doing dungeons with a premade pty.

[Cigaran]

Something, something, after 2.3.

[Zumi]

The idea behind duty roulette was to get solo players through the queue faster and give people a bonus for queuing solo. If you are playing with friends you already get the bonus of faster and smoother runs and less time in waiting for a queue.

[DSN]

The idea behind duty roulette was to get solo players through the queue faster and give people a bonus for queuing solo. If you are playing with friends you already get the bonus of faster and smoother runs and less time in waiting for a queue.

I usually heal or tank and a buddy of mine does the opposite of what I am doing. Since the introduction of Roulette we noticed that the amount of time we were spending together hanging out dropped to almost never. So we stopped doing Roulette because we want to hang out together. SO you just lost a healer and tank from the DF, does that make it faster for you?

[Artemiz]

As others have said letting groups do the Roulette defeats the purpose of the Roulette itself. If bonus tomes are worth more to you than playing with friends then use the Roulette, if not que up the old fashioned way and enjoy your dungeon with your friends, even with 2 DPS que times are much shorter than queing solo which the bonus tomes make up for. Sounds to me you guys want it both ways, bonus tomes and much shorter ques but you'll get that at the expence of others just trying to clear content or que up solo, I don't think that's fair and I don't think they'll implement it.

I usually heal or tank and a buddy of mine does the opposite of what I am doing. Since the introduction of Roulette we noticed that the amount of time we were spending together hanging out dropped to almost never. So we stopped doing Roulette because we want to hang out together. SO you just lost a healer and tank from the DF, does that make it faster for you?

But that leaves 2 DPS spots open, people in the Roulette can fill those slots so you'll only negatively effect other people's que times if you and your friend stop doing dungeons all together or you only do pre-made parties. If you still use the DF you've made no difference at all by refusing to Roulette.

[DSN]

As others have said letting groups do the Roulette defeats the purpose of the Roulette itself. If bonus tomes are worth more to you than playing with friends then use the Roulette, if not que up the old fashioned way and enjoy your dungeon with your friends, even with 2 DPS que times are much shorter than queing solo which the bonus tomes make up for. Sounds to me you guys want it both ways, bonus tomes and much shorter ques but you'll get that at the expence of others just trying to clear content or que up solo, I don't think that's fair and I don't think they'll implement it.

I am maxed on tomes dont care about them, I really liked the randomness of the Roulette system, I can only queue so many things but Roulette pulls from a larger list of dungeons, story modes, etc. I cant queue normal ifrit but I can help people by randomly joining roulette. Sometimes we just get bored running the same dungeons and want a 'random' change on scenery. We play because we like the game not because we need anything from doing this anymore.

[Iymala]

They already said they were looking into adding this, but only they know when.