Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[Gumbercules]

Praetorium was literally half a level for me at level 62 :3 (not counting mob experience)

ahh kk i keep getting CM XD

[Fym]

I just tried the MSQ roulette and we spent

47 min and 25 seconds in the roulette of that time, 31 min and 5 seconds was spent in cut scene. The experience (3M) was not worth the amount of time it took to complete the dungeon. I will not queue for that roulette again.

Square Enix should make the MSQ dungeons single player experiences and not try to inflict this experience on a group.

Fem

[Faeon]

I don't think there is any real way to fix this issue, no matter what they do other option would be to just delete the ARR and HW requirement dungeons and give them the cutscenes with added characters in there like you see your character on the magic tech mount killing the arms etc. but you not doing it yourself.

[NaoTenbe]

I decided to see how bad it was for myself. Ran at really oddball time in the morning, took less then 10 min to que as a dps and got Castrium. At least 3 people were freshies to it.
Dealing with the cutscenes was bad, especially on stupid ones that give you hints that you already know, and take you out of fights that are in progress. While you don't take damage while in cutscene (I picture all the imperials getting a quick smoke break while waiting) the second you get out, they can hammer on the tank, and the heals need to be on top of it or they're dead.
The text stuff is what SERIOUSLY bothers me. That part is unclickable, and it's done at a short bus reading pace. Most 7 year olds can read through it faster then that.

I did my time, paid my dues there, I'm done with that. Not gonna que for that again until they make some changes.

[loreleidiangelo]

So does the text auto play, or do you have to click through it? If it's auto play I could see myself queuing up and alt-tabbing the cutscenes if I have time for a 30-minute dungeon.

[seraf]

So does the text auto play, or do you have to click through it? If it's auto play I could see myself queuing up and alt-tabbing the cutscenes if I have time for a 30-minute dungeon.

It's auto-play thankfully. I'm going to make it a goal to run this once a day as Tank to help the newbie players out a bit so the time during cutscenes will be used to talk to the party in game or to people over on my Discord.

[AngelCheese77]

So far, I've had a great time talking to people in the chat during the cutscenes ... well aside from the usual whiners.

I've also watched a ton of videos and played mobile games on my phone while I waited.

No big deal to me. Though I do agree if no one in the party is tagged as a 'new player', the cutscenes should be auto skipped.

[Skivvy]

I've also watched a ton of videos and played mobile games on my phone while I waited.

I'm glad you don't mind, but this bit made me laugh a bit. It's like our time is so undervalued that we resort to killing time by watching videos/playing other games whilst in the middle of a dungeon run. Exhilarating content right there!


With that said, I think I'll give it a shot myself tonight, see if it's worth it in my quest to get my blm up to 60. Some times lazy runs are nice. :3

[Metalwrath]

47 pages now about a change that affects new players and only one new player posted in it.
Kinda ironic dont you think?

[Lord_Zlatan]

I'm glad you don't mind, but this bit made me laugh a bit. It's like our time is so undervalued that we resort to killing time by watching videos/playing other games whilst in the middle of a dungeon run. Exhilarating content right there!


With that said, I think I'll give it a shot myself tonight, see if it's worth it in my quest to get my blm up to 60. Some times lazy runs are nice. :3

They definitely can be. Also, low stress runs can be good too. I finally caved and did this the last 2 nights, got Castrum and Praetorium. Prae is pretty terrible with the CS's but its not as unbearable as people make it, and there were plenty of vets in the party to just stomp it.