Thread: 1.0 player says "Expert Roulette" is a brick wall

Originally Posted by Daniolaut

The reason being, is when "new" content is added "old" content suffers a hit to rewards, yet do not reflect amount of time completed in relation to tomes rewarded, which in turns to said content's "death."

But the level 60 dungeons in the roulette keep the exact same rewards. New dungeons cone out with higher rewards. Expert keeps the sane rewards. Nothing is being taken away and if anything, when new content comes out its easier than ever to cap.

Originally Posted by Canadane

the exact same rewards.

Youre off topic, and while you make a point, its a tiny one in respect to the topic.

Sure since 2.0 back when expert roulette didnt even exist, the cap was like 350, 375 or 400 or whatever, and we were running Amdapor Keep or Wanderer's palace over and over to cap each week, its gotten a good amount better, its still not at a point that makes sense.

Especially because not only do tomes no longer give you max level gear, not only do you have to do either raid to get max level gear (24 man or 8 man raids only) but there are more jobs, and more things to do now.

This means, we are spending only a tiny bit less time doing the same things we've been doing since day one for the "exact same rewards" as you put it, which is still restricting us from doing content that was "dead on arrival."

I'm not saying the tome system is the cause of this content being dead, i'm saying for me its a big contributor. As well as a killer for the entire game for a lot of people.

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So, I ask you now, why is this such a bad idea?

(Honestly Square-Enix is extremely unlikely to read this, which is why i'm not upset if they do or dont anyway cause i'm not even subscribed right now. I got 14 days free, but i'd like to think I will come back to a better game when I do decide to come back. Most likely which will be in small spurts between each expansion. (pending its improvement, dependent on how long i stay each time (not patch, each expansion) as I have been.)

The game is fun, and all of that jazz, but if you play regularly and cant see that people have left the game in droves, nor willing to entertain simple ideas that could enhance the gameplay, i dont know what else to say. I pretty much have beaten this do death by now.

I am just a bit disappointed 14 days was a long as I could bear to stay this time. The breaks are getting longer, and the time online is getting shorter.

Same as what someone said above; it's ridiculously easy to cap tomes. When I'm very active, I cap by Wednesday. When I take it easy, I cap by Friday or Saturday. I rarely do EX roulette - typically only do it with FC mates when they ask.

If you're a returning player, there is a ton of content for you to do. All three 24 man raids, Frontlines if you want any Garo gear/rewards, Alexander Creator, pick up some dragonskin maps and try out Aquapolis, pick up Wondrous Tails from Khloe and get rewards in addition to doing a mix of content, Palace of the Dead, and if you haven't cleared all the extreme primals, try working through those from easiest (Bismarck) to most recent (Zurvan).

Some weeks I capped off one EX, a Dun Scaith or Weeping City, and running Alexander Creator trying to get a drop, all in 24 hours or so. Getting those Creator drops is tough.

If it's just a game and you only want to enjoy yourself.....relax and play it how you want, don't get caught up in forcing yourself to cap scripture. Do the things you want and use the scripture as it comes.

Old content is in leveling roulette, 50 roulette, 60 roulette and so on.
Old trials are in Khloe. Old raids give the best time to light ratio. Old 24-man gives relic items. Literally no old content is dead and needs to be "brought back to life" by putting the highest endgame currency in it.

I can clear Sastasha in 2-3 min (already do that for Khloe anyways). You say you want to avoid a routine, but all that would do is get everyone to just farm Sastasha instead because it will only take half an hour to cap tomes that way.

I'm sorry but all you are saying just sounds incredibly missinformed. You just came back, how about you try actually doing things first (you know, other things, not expert roulette) before you complain about the lack of options, when there's a nearly unlimited number of options out there.

And that's not even counting that there IS NO REASON TO HAVE LORE GEAR AT ALL if you are not actually doing content that requires it. If you ONLY do below 60 dungeons, you don't have any need for ilvl 260/270 gear, so just don't bother getting it at all. If you do lvl 60 content, pretty much everything DOES give you the currency, so there is absolutely nothing wrong with the system.

Originally Posted by Daniolaut

Why are the people responding to this thread completely against this idea?

actually im not against it at all, but i don't think it's needed and i wouldn't care if it came to be

we're all just telling you that capping scriptures isn't going to require a schedule or a routine - you can just do it casually.

for example... say for tonight/today/afternoon do aquapolis with friends who happen to be online at the same time, feeling like helping a newbie? queue mentor roulette, feel like killing a primal? trial roulette, after duty you spawn back in azys lla (or wherever) and just then and there you stumble upon hunt shouts freshly discovered so you head over there and ask for party invite all of these are just examples and they all reward tomestones. the only routine from that is thinking what you should be doing for that day/night