An idea to help roulette queue times

[Keridwyn]

Unfortunately this really wouldn't help. All the incentives in the world won't make me run extra roulettes. Eventually you just burn out and want to do something different. Plus have you tried healing in the current climate? Folks are out for blood making it even less fun.

[Zojha]

Plus have you tried healing in the current climate?

I am actually healing my roulettes for the quicker queues. It's usually quite relaxing.

I only heal expert, tho'. I've stopped going into 50/60s because there are too many tanks doing small pulls lately, which degrades me to malefic spamming decor. I don't have a parser, but if I had, I'd have uploaded that one Amdapor Keep log where I literally only used Essential Dignity and an Aspected Helios on the Demon Wall for healing spells because that sufficed >_>

[Keridwyn]

I am actually healing my roulettes for the quicker queues. It's usually quite relaxing.

Fair enough, I just ran into a rash of runs where if I did dps I was a bad healer but if I didn't I was also a bad healer. After a month of that no win situation I am finding that RDM comes with no stress. I don't care if queues are long, not being the focus of frustration is infinitely more worth it.

[Gravton]

Unfortunately this really wouldn't help. All the incentives in the world won't make me run extra roulettes. Eventually you just burn out and want to do something different.

^This. I main as tanks. I don't enjoy doing lower dungeons because I lose all my abilities and I've done them hundreds of times. Next patch we get one dungeon, so we can get "more content". This content pulls my tank from the que. if they really wanted more tanks to que the would add more to the roulette. Like a hidden dungeon that can only be accessed through roulette or something. (Yeah it can be abused but they should know how to design around it.)

Even the incentives like tomes and cracked cluster have diminishing returns. My tanks share gear and I have one dps leveled (drg). I have 17 cracked clusters on me waiting for a gear upgrade that I can't buy till next week. The rewards are nice but only players that want to gear, meld, and lvl all jobs see the most benefit. For players like me that don't need poetics and have no intention on lvling all the jobs. I have no reason to run ex roulette more than once a day, and no reason to run the lower roulettes at all.

[Kalsoa]

Only thing I could think of is adding something super shiny for tanks AND healers (Healers don't even get mounts to encourage them to do things as healer) that can ONLY be earned by doing specific roulettes a number of times. But it would need to be separated, like 200 leveling roulettes, 200 50/60 roulettes, etc to earn the item.

Now, the problem then becomes, people farm for the item, get it, and we're back at square one. Maybe you add tiers, like do 200 more of each and now said item gets a glow or something. Another 200, a bigger effect, another 200, you can CUSTOMIZE the effect.

Maybe this item is a new mount. Maybe it's just the ability to add these glows or other effects to the mount or piece of gear of your choosing, even DPS weapons/gear. This would keep tanks and healers queuing for those roulettes for the long haul. The only thing is, you have to make the rewards juicy or you still won't encourage enough people to tank and heal.

That's my idea, anyways, but would be a lot of work to implement. But we need SOMETHING to get these godawful queue times to lower.