Developer, please consider adding more incentives to some of the Trials Duty Finder

[Luvbunny]

I was just wondering if you can add better incentives to encourage more players to do some of these trials on duty finder that is absolutely necessary to progress to the main story. For example: Cape Westwind, Leviathan Hard Mode, Ramuh Hard Mode, and Battle on the Bridge, plus Labyrinth of the Ancients. These are outdated contents that are no longer popular, they do not drop anything at all that players consider worthwhile to do it over and over. Worse of all, any new players or newly created alts MUST clear these to progress.

Could you add a few worthwhile drops to these trials? Perhaps 1-2 new crafting materials (similar to what you did for Coil V1), or gear level 100 and accessories, perhaps minions or mounts, furniture etc. It should have 3 slots that drops random rewards. All the other primals are needed for relic weapon path, or they drop weapons and mount which players deemed worth to do. This is extremely annoying because as the game progress, less and less people will bother to do these, and more people cannot complete this.

I had several new members in FC that could not complete Cape Westwind for over a month due to sheer frustration having to wait for hours in the Duty Finder. Thanks in advance.

[HulveinBlitz]

What would you suggest they add to make it more desirable?

[Kyroc]

Isn't that what trial roulette is for?

[Luvbunny]

The trial roulette requires you clear all the trials, if you are new players, you cannot even do this. Some of these primal trial missions are crucial to progress into main stories to access Snowcloak, which is required if you need to do Expert Mode Roulette. In patch 2.1-2.3 you can skip the entire main mission and can do expert roulette since none of the dungeons is part of the main story.

[Luvbunny]

What would you suggest they add to make it more desirable?

They can add 1 slot that drop random "new" craft materials similar to what they did with Bahamut Coil V1. They can add another slot that drops random gears lvl 90-100 for glamours. They can add barding, or minions, or mounts. They can also add some exclusive things that you can only loot as need if you are tanks to encourage more tanks do these trials. Cape Westwind is so crucial for ANY new players or new alts, its not even funny how long the DF can be for these. You can wait for 2-3 hours, as healer or any job for that matter because there is simple nobody wants to do it. Battle on The Bridge is another classic example. It drops ZERO items, but needed to do the next Ultros trial.

[Kyroc]

The trial roulette requires you clear all the trials, if you are new players, you cannot even do this. Some of these primal trial missions are crucial to progress into main stories to access Snowcloak, which is required if you need to do Expert Mode Roulette. In patch 2.1-2.3 you can skip the entire main mission and can do expert roulette since none of the dungeons is part of the main story.

The trial roulettes get cleared players into a trial where other players are queuing. You know, players who haven't cleared. Thats how you get the soldiery bonus message in trial roulettes every now and then.

[Marxam]

I think it was poor design for SE to not include an achievement for tanks (and maybe healers?) that rewards them for going into low level roulette's similar to the ex/coil tank achievement. For example; if you do 200 low level dr runs you get a mount or item or armor, just something that says here's a little something for you to work towards other than more gil. Which atm is quite useless with extremely polarized market prices and undercutting so bad it would make any market analyst want to hang themselves.

If you need further proof of this simply look at all the threads crying out about long queue times and ask yourself why is it so?

[Chiramu]

I think it was poor design for SE to not include an achievement for tanks (and maybe healers?) that rewards them for going into low level roulette's similar to the ex/coil tank achievement.

Can't run a dungeon without DPS either, the rewards should be matched to any role needed to complete the dungeon.

[kyuven]

If you need further proof of this simply look at all the threads crying out about long queue times and ask yourself why is it so?

Because healing and tank classes can't put out the big numbers.
Because they require a different thought process than DPS.
Because if someone fails, it's the tank or healer's fault. There's not a lot of incentive to play a role that gets abuse.
Because there are only two tank and two healer classes, but six DPS classes.
Because unlike DPS, your playstyle completely changes going from solo content to group content, which is ALSO much different (though this is more for healers than tanks.) Consider that tanks are one of the only roles in the game that carries around multiple gear sets for the same job.

[alimdia]

Trial roulette helps them, its just some trails have low priority in the roulette.
Or.. queue with your fc mates as tank/healer.. A month and not getting cape westwind done? Whats your whole fc doing?