Speed Running Leveling Roulette

[HyoMinPark]

Really, it depends on the duty, and then it depends on your party members.

If you land in a leveling dungeon with all four of you being level 60 and well-geared, even with the synced aspect of the duty, you can probably speed run it with the exception of a few dungeons (please do not pull the entire first room of AV; you will all end up pulverized no matter what, and also that large pull in Dzemael with the frogs can be a sticky situation for anyone--experienced or not).

If you load in and see that one or more people are not synced down, or are a few levels above the duty sync yet poorly geared, probably not a good idea to speed run, especially if the poorly geared individual(s) is/are your tank and/or healer. If there is ever a new person bonus, also probably not a good idea to just bulldoze through the duty either.

I don't encounter a lot of people that try to speed run the leveling/story dungeons (however, there are still those out there that do), but I particularly find it annoying when people want to steamroll through everything. Even if I am level 60 and only there for the tomes bonus the roulette gives me. Because usually, there is one person there trying to learn the dungeon, or trying to level up/learn an alt class/job, and speed-runs don't exactly serve as the best learning environment. But that's just my opinion.

(Obviously, I don't want to spend 45 minutes in a leveling dungeon either, but if you have people that are new, or leveling up a class/job, some courtesy and patience is always much appreciated by them, I'm sure.)

[Steady]

@Hyo, I quite agree. I can speed run Ex Roulette all day (and it's worth noting that they've placed obstacles to avoid pulling all things to the boss), and everyone would agree if you can stay up without being a strain while you do it, then more power to you. But Leveling may as well be called Learning roulette. If your healer has to frantically spam their highest level healing spell to keep you from dying to your impatient stupidity, then that should be a sign that you should tone that $#it down.

[Clethoria]

Even if I am level 60 and only there for the tomes bonus the roulette gives me. Because usually, there is one person there trying to learn the dungeon, or trying to level up/learn an alt class/job, and speed-runs don't exactly serve as the best learning environment.

This especially. Before I started to warn people "I'm new, don't know the gimmicks and am a horrible Tank" I always felt like I was doing everything wrong and holding everyone back on my first try. Not to mention it wasn't fun. Fortunately I'm on a server where people are willing to stop and say "make sure you stand here" or "watch out for poison vomit"

Oh yeah, and this will be forever relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OOHRk2-A6A