Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[boomsterloy2]

In my opinion, its not as torturous as everyone makes it out to be. Sure it takes more time than most are used to, but I've had a blast talking to the party during cutscenes, its nice being able to talk to them, more than sry, thx, gg, etc. It was a welcome change of pace.

[seraf]

In my opinion, its not as torturous as everyone makes it out to be. Sure it takes more time than most are used to, but I've had a blast talking to the party during cutscenes, its nice being able to talk to them, more than sry, thx, gg, etc. It was a welcome change of pace.

This is what I noticed as well when I ran MSQ Rou on launch day this week. The exp was pretty decent if you're still in the process of leveling and honestly the dungeon is still really easy to do and the cutscenes just give you time to rest a bit between pulls. It's basically Prae and chill. lol

[Rinuko]

True, but that’s an issue in every dungeon to some degree. A DPS-only player is going to be used to long queues at this stage of the game.

I’m not a really skilled tank, so this roulette means I can be helpful in a not-too-high-stress tanking role.

Neither Leveling, Alliance raid or Expert takes longer than 10-15 min (often less) as a DPS at any level. However MSQ have the past 4 months (maybe more) always been 30+ minutes as DPS. It hasnt improved since 4.2 so im not running it ever again.

Edit: This is on Chaos DC and during EU primetime

[Raiya]

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

Realistically forcing people to watch cutscenes is the most stupid and lazy decision made for this. Whats worse is that its not actually that hard to rework this to eliminate the tedium.

1) Just made most of castrum an instance and change livia into a trial fight. Castrum easily fixed.
2) Make most of praetorium an instance and just make the ultima fight also a trial. Praetorium fixed.

The real issue here is that people arent gonna run this in the long term and it will end up in the same state as the alliance raids were prior to the introduction of the alliance raid finder. Its just sheer lazy patching to do so and introduces more problems than it solves.

[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.

[Coratanni]

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

Do you honestly believe this? There are no new players joining this game everyday?

Wow.

[Avatre]

Do you honestly believe this? There are no new players joining this game everyday?

Wow.

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

[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.)