Improve the Roulette System

[Jonny_Tapas]

Queues are too long period. This is a huge turn off for new players. Especially watching tons of new players running around under a free trial period.

1. The roulette system does not support all instance.
2. The roulette system does not off sufficient rewards for players to continuously push players into lower level instances.

A high reward full random roulette attached to every instance in the game would do the trick. Obviously the fill priority should be for the longest running queue.

I've seen too many queues go over an hour... I can't imagine any players experiencing this game for the first time would find that even remotely acceptable.

[WellFooled]

I feel like the duty roulette does a pretty good job. I've never seen anything close to an hour long queue for anything except maybe Frontlines during off hours.

But I do agree that the few instances that aren't in a roulette ought to be. I would love to see Ultima Hard Mode included in the Trial Roulette.

[mosaicex]

I feel like the duty roulette does a pretty good job. I've never seen anything close to an hour long queue for anything except maybe Frontlines during off hours.

But I do agree that the few instances that aren't in a roulette ought to be. I would love to see Ultima Hard Mode included in the Trial Roulette.

I am all for EX trials roulette. I don't even care about reward, just wanted to help people who stuck on any EX primals.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

The other day I went to the WoW forums and they were discussing the exact same thing. Sadly, the DPS queues are atrocious, not only here but in WoW as well. Mostly because, overall, it's the most played role. This is something that will probably happen on every game that uses the trinity (tank-healer-dps). There're actually ongoing plans to populate low level dungeons, which is the relic. It forces you to go and kill things in low-level dungeons.

The rewards, even though they're actually nice, sometimes don't justify spending 2 hours (Metaphorically speaking) running a dungeon while you can perfectly do x2/3 high-level/expert roulettes and SR your way through. It doesn't help to lose all your skill when the level-synch occurs. .-. It makes it real boring... and your gear, being synch'd as well, it feels like you're using an NQ gear-set for that level of challenge.

[WellFooled]

I am all for EX trials roulette. I don't even care about reward, just wanted to help people who stuck on any EX primals.

Some day I'll build up the nerve to attempt Ramuh Ex ._.

[Kaes]

Yes, please make more instances available in some form of Duty Roulette.

If you want to encourage players to use the roulette more than once per day but don't want players to spam it for bonus farming, spread the once-per-day reward over multiple runs. For example, instead of 50 tomes on the first run per day, it's 40, then 20, 10, 5, 5, and 0 after that. Players are sure to complain if the DR rewards are nerfed, though on the other hand some will complain if it becomes too easy (a valid criticism, value of existing effort shouldn't be diminished), so the first run rewards are kept almost the same.

[Amiantos]

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Heavens god no. This is a stupid idea no one would bother after the first 2 as doing 5x Sas/Qarn HM would just piss people off and same goes for most HL dungeons. No one wants to do these more than once per day and would just take up too much time. People like to craft, do hunts, do the dailies and level other jobs. Why force people to do 10 dungeons per day just for a bonus. Not to mention people who are already grinding the shit out of the dungeons for their Zodiac weapon.

[Reiryuu]

I agree, somewhat. I mainly use Low Level roulette these days to level NIN, but I am usually getting 30-40 minute wait times which is probably not encouraging for players on trial accounts. I generally don't do the roulette on higher level jobs because my only non-leveled job could use the XP more than the small amount of tomes the roulette offers and the 4500 gil for needed job doesn't really get me fired up to do a dungeon when I could be spending that time farming dungeons and getting tomes. Heck, I think I get around 4500 gil from a Syrcus run and 50 sol and 15 poetics and some decent armor for my low ilvl jobs to boot.

What would be enough to encourage me to go into lower dungeons again for roulette? I'm not sure to be honest, but it's certainly not relic quest. I gave up on that crap. (I took off a while just after 2.2 and came back during 2.4. While I got my anima, the books and the rest of the quest is just too much of a pain to be worth it, IMHO.)

[Wobble]

I think storyline primals (low level) should have their own roulette personally.

[Vespar]

I've never seen anything close to an hour long queue for anything except maybe Frontlines during off hours.

The queues for DPS in low level have been 30mins+ for me almost everytime, with most hitting the 45-60 min marks. This is very detrimental when you consider how many new players have joined the game. They all want to get through the main scenario dungeons but have to wait lengthy periods of time. This is a huge turn off (even for old players trying to level new jobs)
High level roullettes such as trials, expert, etc haven't been affected half as much as low level roullettes..