Problem with Duty forced into Expansion Content...

[Warlyx]

Now is the best time to get missions done , because now u have 3 Duty roulettes for OLD CONTENT.

dr leveling for all the leveling dungeons
dr trial for all this annoying trials
dr mentor , for EVERYTHING , from sastasha to alexander gordias , even trials extreme are there.

and has been like that forever and isnt going to change anytime soon.

[pikster]

Normally, this would not bother me but what is the point of making people do Duty's as part of that, NOBODY ques for Ramuh, Leviathan etc and they are absolutely what you NEED to do in order to access the expansion

What are you talking about, these are in the duty roulette trials and come up all the time...

[Bixillarla]

My server has Unsync runs of all the primals still for ponies and crafting materials. Could be your server is not interested in the content. If you are on a low population server you may want to consider transferring to a more active one.

[Felis]

you are Lucky if it is only 30mn waiting time. As a healer, I tried to do Ramex, I waited 6+h in order to get a queue, I went to bed (EURO zone time queued) woke up 6+h later I was STILL Queuing.

So yes I agree with OP in this. There is a content that forces you to play with people, no problem there, BUT when none of those people are interested in playing that old content, including your FC members and friends, then what ? you are left with waiting and waiting and waiting.

except that the ex trials are not required for the MSQ and are only part of the mentor roulette (since yesterday).
The hard trials, which are required, are also part of the trial roulette, that everyone use to earn tomes for relic.

[SpiritMuse]

I never quite understand this "problem". To me it seems pretty normal that a game doesn't allow you to start the final level before having done all the previous ones. No one ever complains about that in single player games, why is it such a problem here?

[Critical-Limit]

20 minute wait is nothing.. Go do some triple triad, or scratch offs, or beast men dailies. While you wait to do leviathan (the right way).

[Squrilruler]

In my opinion, Group Content should never be a barrier to enjoying the overall story of an MMO. Such group content and waiting around breaks up momentum and kinda makes people lose interest, especially if they have to spend 30 minutes in a group finder to get to the next part.

Sounds like you are playing the wrong type of game. I think what you are looking for is called a Single Player Game.

[Khalithar]

In my opinion, Group Content should never be a barrier to enjoying the overall story of an MMO. Such group content and waiting around breaks up momentum and kinda makes people lose interest, especially if they have to spend 30 minutes in a group finder to get to the next part.

I'll second the motion that main story quests should only ever be solo content.

[Geula]

I think party content in MSQ is fine, there just needs to be incentive for people to fill the numbers for people doing it for first time.

[MistakeNot]

I'll second the motion that main story quests should only ever be solo content.

Certainly a valid opinion, but clearly not one the developers agree with considering how much of the main story is gated by group content.
The fact that soon after we finish the prologue and leave our starting cities we are hit with not one, but three group dungeons in quick succession should be a strong hint.