Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[Coratanni]

Pretty sure they meant when there is no bonus for someone being new to the duty, thus nobody new to it in that run.

The way they say it the meaning can be either way.

In any event if they don't like to wait they are free to run any of the other Roulettes. I will continue running it every day that I have time. It is a non-stress duty for leveling my tanking classes. And the Poetics are nice for all of my relics I am working on.

[Talraen]

What makes this silly though is that your forced to watch Cutscenes WHEN NOONE IS NEW TO THIS.

I think they did this to prevent speculative queuing. For instance, you could queue for Main Story Roulette, and if anyone had a bonus (and thus cutscenes were unskippable), you'd immediately leave and take the penalty. I doubt this would be a super popular thing to do, were it possible, but it's smarty not to give people any incentive whatsoever to leave. If you queue, you know what you're getting. (Though with Praetorium being so much longer I could see people leaving unless they get Castrum, too.)

[seraf]

Eh, I'm just not on the bandwagon to think this is the doomsday times. It sucks they're forced but prior to this week this was the first time 2018 I've ran MSQ Rou because there's no tomes or rewards it offers that I need anymore. I ran it probably less than 5 times during the entirety of 2017.

[Derio]

I still think they should have used some resources to turn both into a solo instance with NPCs.

[Anarnee]

I'm so glad that I got everything to 70 before this patch cause I'm not touching that again. >: I do still have some alts that will need it though... Maybe I'll buy a story skip when I hit that part, cause I love doing the story on characters, but I can't imagine sitting in those both for like an hour and some change.

[Hestzhyen]

I'm so glad that I got everything to 70 before this patch cause I'm not touching that again. >: I do still have some alts that will need it though... Maybe I'll buy a story skip when I hit that part, cause I love doing the story on characters, but I can't imagine sitting in those both for like an hour and some change.

And thus SE's hidden agenda comes to light! Egads!

... I wish I could say I was only kidding, but there's a small, cynical voice in my head whispering that skip potion purchases were definitely factored into the plan.

[Alleo]

And thus SE's hidden agenda comes to light! Egads!

... I wish I could say I was only kidding, but there's a small, cynical voice in my head whispering that skip potion purchases were definitely factored into the plan.

Yeah I have that voice in my head too..and seeing how they somehow changed the "item for all accounts" to "single character only" for merchandise without much of hint beforehand and seeing how we just got another paid retainer but no free one..well that voice is growing louder...I mean why take the time to make those into solo duties (even though they had years) if you could just go for the easiest solution with the cutscenes and hope that people still stick around and if they dont they still can buy a potion..

[Reynhart]

It doesn't even matter how well this solution solves or doesn't solve the problem SE set out to 'fix' - it actually ignores the majority of scenarios and therefore is severely lacking.

The thing is that new players that like to see cutscenes were frequently forced to follow the fast pace, now they're free to enjoy the run as they see fit. On the other hand, if you think this roulette does not worth it for you, no one is forcing you to run it, so you're free to not queue for it.

Yeah I have that voice in my head too..and seeing how they somehow changed the "item for all accounts" to "single character only" for merchandise without much of hint beforehand and seeing how we just got another paid retainer but no free one..well that voice is growing louder...

Not really tied to the "jump potion vs MSQ roulette topic", but if you want another hint at how they want us to buy things, what about the shameful ad for buying garlond's attire from Mogstation in the first cutscene of the new Omega, after asking you if you really want that outfit ?

[Iscah]

But surely if you enjoy the story overall, a story skip would jump over way more than you’d want just for the sake of dodging these dungeons? Doesn’t it take you right over to Lv60 and miss all of Heavensward? Give it a go first, at least!

[Anarnee]

But surely if you enjoy the story overall, a story skip would jump over way more than you’d want just for the sake of dodging these dungeons? Doesn’t it take you right over to Lv60 and miss all of Heavensward? Give it a go first, at least!

I have 16 characters at the moment that I have put a good amount of work into (More than that but the others were just created for fun and I don't do much on them), Three caught up to the current MSQ, Two at the start of SB, three in HW, one just past praetorium and in the story after, and the last seven are still before Prae. I know what it takes to get characters leveled and through the msq, that hour plus that I will be wasting in there can be used for the VERY LONG string of quests that it takes to get into HW. The story line of ARR after Prae is already very long. That is over 7 hours potentially added to a very long quest grind as it is for me.


Luckily, I'm pretty sure the skip potion puts me at the start of HW. Though it is a shame because I like the story leading up to it as well.

I certainly don't -need- to work on them I guess, but I like leveling characters and experiencing things again. Specially after big patches, it's a good refresher on story that I've not gotten to do in years/months.

Don't need to give it a go to know how much of a waste of time it is, I've been playing since 2013.