Praetorium warning for new players?

[Lambdafish]

Sorry if you have 2 hours to watch cutscenes, I don't and the fact you expect me to sit on my hands a wait as you read as slowly as humanly possible is asinine.

So who is in the right in this situation? No one. Its poor planning and a lack of common sense by SE.

Yes it is poor planning on SEs behalf, but this isnt a 2 sided issue. dont get me wrong, you would be exactly right in any content except CM and Pre, because these dungeons are designed solely for beating the story. Even the rewards arent worth running these days (poetics), so if you want to be in these dungeons you should respect that people are in here for the story, not for levelling, not for loot/token rewards, they are there just to beat it and finish the story, which is unique to any other dungeon.

However, this is still SEs problem rather than the community's because I doubt my little paragraph is going to do anything to change anyone's mind, only SE has the power to enforce changes.

[RyuRoots]

I actually recently 2-man'd Cape Westwind, Castrum Meridianum, and Praetorium with a friend since they never really got to enjoy them the first time through. It was a lot of fun, though the fact that they were pressured into ignoring everything during the dungeon because of impatient goons is both sad and less than surprising. I think SE immensely overestimated the community by presuming that most random parties would be kind to newbies. I think OP's suggestion is a good one. Even if players ignore it and get trouble from jerks, at the very least you get a warning which is more than what they're doing about it now (which is literally nothing).

[FallenArisen0990]

Honestly TC, the only solution to this is for new people to make friends and go in unsynced. The window time to fix this has long past.

[aesteval]

Cleared Castrum Meridianum for the first time last night 2 tanks, 2 healers, unsynced. It was fun. Took longer than it would have than if we had any DPS, but we'll be back in with DPS when FC members are up to that point in the game. Praetorium will probably be handled the same way.

[Eothas]

Luckily, before my first time, I have watched Mizzteq guide, and this problem is mentioned in the video. So I had time to prepare myself to deal with it. I feel sorry for new players that enter Castrum without a clue about this problem, all MSQ leading to this moment to feel "epic", finally you will face Livia, etc... and then its totally ruined.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

All of the MSQ dungeons should have had mandatory cut scene viewing if the party happened to have any new players. While I appreciate people not wanting to watch lengthily cut scenes again and again, it isn't fair to those who haven't seen them. Frankly, Castrum and Praetorium were horrible design choices. No trial/dungeon should have 30+ minutes worth of cut scenes in an MMO.

[FallenArisen0990]

All of the MSQ dungeons should have had mandatory cut scene viewing if the party happened to have any new players. While I appreciate people not wanting to watch lengthily cut scenes again and again, it isn't fair to those who haven't seen them. Frankly, Castrum and Praetorium were horrible design choices. No trial/dungeon should have 30+ minutes worth of cut scenes in an MMO.

No one would run MSQ Roulette if that was the case. As for the 30 mins Cutscene is fine at the end of the Duty Even the beginning is fine because if you don't like it, drop. Someone will take your place.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

No one would run MSQ Roulette if that was the case. As for the 30 mins Cutscene is fine at the end of the Duty Even the beginning is fine because if you don't like it, drop. Someone will take your place.

They would if the rewards was good enough. And I was referring to the cut scenes during both trials. Nice suggestion for new players though: "Hey, if you don't like having to skip every scene then take a 30 minute penalty."

[Blueyes]

I think SE could properly address the issue if they really wanted to. If I recall correctly, there is one point in the Heavensward story when upon completion of a fight there is a cutscene that is immediately followed by a second fight. However, players can't simply rush in because they are placed inside of one of those bubble barriers that prevents people from engaging. I don't think it would be impossible for SE to implement points like for players to spawn into following a cutscene. Specifically, at the start of each boss encounter.

[Raist]

meh... the rewards from MSQ roulette are become less and less relevant. Just a matter of time until the speed running tapers off and it becomes more a thing for new players and their FC/LS/FL running them.

As was stated earlier....the time frame for implementing a forced fix of sorts is past on this content.