Dungeon Blacklist (Suggestion)

[RakaMaimhov]

Have you ever found yourself doing the same dungeons day after day in Duty Roulette? Well, I know I have! For example, I've gotten Copperbell HM several days in a row for my daily roulette.

I think it would be cool if a blacklist function were to be added to duty roulette. One dungeon we can opt out of. Maybe make it so we can only change it once per week. That way, if we get sick of a different dungeon, or want some variety, we could choose to opt out of a different dungeon (or the same one) every week. I think as long as roulette still had a minimum of 3 dungeons to pull from, this would be a great feature. Might even get some people to stop insta-quitting if they get something they don't like in roulette.

(Forgive me if this thread exists elsewhere. I've never seen this idea suggested before.)

[Arrius]

While a decent idea it is, most -if not all- of my black list is currently occupied with the names of many Gil Sellers that have spread their offers to me, only to land on that list.
Plus, I am not sure if SE even bothers with adding or increasing more slots for the names you can list up. :/

[Kerberon]

While a nice idea, it is fundamentally against why they implemented the roulette to begin with.

[Nalien]

You could just, I don't know, not use Roulette?

[RakaMaimhov]

@ Arrius, I don't mean in the actual blacklist. It would be like a checkbox in the duty list to exclude a dungeon from roulette.

@ Kerberon, the term "roulette" suggest to me some level of random-ness. I have never seen any indication that Duty Roulette is random. It's first implementation saw nothing but Sastasha for everyone in the low level roulette. It hasn't gotten much better. Excluding dungeons BECAUSE WE'RE SICK OF DOING THEM does not defeat the purpose of roulette at all. I also stated "as long as there are 3 dungeons to pull from" which has always been the case for roulette anyway (with the exception of Story Mode). I am sick of Copperbell HM every day. That's like oatmeal for breakfast every day. Blech.

@ Nalien, Sure, I'll stop using roulette when they get rid of the 1-time bonuses. The function is garbage. They have to bribe players to use it. Doesn't that suggest that perhaps it's flawed?

[NaliaBrown]

I like this idea. It means I could finally get something other than Cutter's Cry on my low-level roulette.

[Kerberon]

@ Kerberon, the term "roulette" suggest to me some level of random-ness. I have never seen any indication that Duty Roulette is random. It's first implementation saw nothing but Sastasha for everyone in the low level roulette. It hasn't gotten much better. Excluding dungeons BECAUSE WE'RE SICK OF DOING THEM does not defeat the purpose of roulette at all. I also stated "as long as there are 3 dungeons to pull from" which has always been the case for roulette anyway (with the exception of Story Mode). I am sick of Copperbell HM every day. That's like oatmeal for breakfast every day. Blech.

The point as I understand it is that low level roulette was implemented to have more players in the low level queue for players that were just starting. Sastasha every time may just mean that there are people repeatedly single option queueing for that dungeon. This may be to farm gear to "twink" or new players in story mode.

[Gramul]

The entire point of the roulette is to fill in areas that are missing for other parties. Being able to choose what to play defeats the point.

[Nalien]

@ Nalien, Sure, I'll stop using roulette when they get rid of the 1-time bonuses. The function is garbage. They have to bribe players to use it. Doesn't that suggest that perhaps it's flawed?

No. Exactly as the name suggests, it's a gamble. That's the whole point of the system, you don't get to pick what you end up doing. The system, and it's "bribe", isn't even meant for you, it's meant for people who need that content done. It's bribing you into doing whatever so you can help new players get content done, not so you can take the bribe.

If you don't want to unwillingly help new players, don't use the system.

[TheFluffyCat]

I personally don't really mind getting Tam-Tara for the millionth time, but on a similar note, it would be really nice if Duty Roulette excluded dungeons that you haven't already manually queued for once before. As I've been leveling up, I've inadvertently unlocked a couple of the optional instances without really feeling ready to tackle them in a DR setting...and have felt underprepared when placed into it for the first time via Roulette, which I think isn't fair to the group.

It would be awesome if they could add a condition to DR to wait until you've manually checked the box to run a given dungeon one time prior to including it in the list of available random results. Once you've run it once on your terms, then it gets put into the list for all future Roulette adventures.