Idea - New DF Roulette: Challenge (iLv Sync)

[Duelle]

It's hard to say, but I'm sure a lot of people would do it for the bonus tomes. And as far as difficulty is concerned, it's like Savage Coil. It is supposed to be difficult and challenging, that's the point.

Except Savage coil gives you titles as your reward. Now if you were asking for titles as a reward (one title for each challenge-mode dungeon), I might be willing to go with this. Alukah makes a good point because yes, no one will bother with it if the rewards are low. If the rewards are high more people will want to do it but won't have the "skill" to clear it, leading to them complaining about the difficulty. I'll throw in that it also invites classisms and drama/ragequits. Can't say I look forward to any of that.

[coldreactive]

They probably wouldn't add an "Adventurer In Need" Bonus to it though nor solderities / poetics higher than the current high level roulette.

[LalaRu]

...What were you thinking for rewards?

The reward is the challenge. If something like this ever implemented, will sure not done to make another way to farm things.

[Kiara1]

I think its a great idea, but pleaaase let us do it with our friends, I hate how most of the roulettes must be solo. My sister is leveling monk and queuetime is so bad for low level roulette as a melee currently, and I can't help her out as tank.
It's like SE don't understand that mmos are most appreciated when you play with your friends.

Edit:
To people saying it would be too hard so no one would do it.
I think a lot of ppl are like me and thinks the current dungeons are waaaaaaaaay to easy, we want dungeons to be harder, and with this roulette it would be. I would do it daily!

[RiceisNice]

Party Queue only, strict level sync and a relevant time limit (not 90 minutes). Rewards would be a hefy sum of tomes or tokens for glamour/mount.

[Alukah]

Party Queue only, strict level sync and a relevant time limit (not 90 minutes). Rewards would be a hefy sum of tomes or tokens for glamour/mount.

Time limit isn't really meant to be a difficulty, just a safeguard so instances don't eat server resources for too long, without it people could stay in instances indefinitely.

I wasn't here at launch but I do remember reading about issues with servers hitting the limit of instances.

[WellFooled]

The reward is the challenge. If something like this ever implemented, will sure not done to make another way to farm things.

If that is the case though, there is no point in implementing this because the challenge is already in the game. You can enter these dungeons any time you'd like at the minimum ilvl. This feature seems like a way to get both challenge and rewards and the rewards are what will stop its queues from becoming a ghost town after a couple of weeks.

[Crevox]

If you wanted the challenge, there's nothing stopping you from lowering your gear and going in the dungeon.

There's no reason to implement something like this, and I really hope they don't.

[Roris]

It'd be great if it was more than just the roulette and if it was an optional difficulty level for all level 50 dungeons, have it give twice the tomes they currently give and maybe some extra drops. Though since you know, the only instanced content with relevant gear in the game has to always be Coil, the only other decent thing that could drop would be mats or maybe minions. Maybe they could do something with aetherial gear too, doing runs to get at least i110 aetherial gear with the stats you want would be interesting.

Aside from the challenge just for fun, extra tomes alone would make doing those old dungeons more worthwhile, it's not like people would outright stop queuing for the regular versions either. Admittedly it would take some work and this game is all about cutting costs and corners.

[Sove92]

How about you try clearing a dungeon like Haukke Manor HM with full party in minimum gear before suggesting something like this?