The Castrum Meridianum/Praetorium Change

[BillyKaplan]

What crystal are you referring too?

Cracked Crystals net you the rank VI gathering and crafting materia

[odie]

I think it sucks if people can't watch the cutscenes. I think that a good measure though would to be to reduce the required party from 8 to 4 players. With players getting free i90 gear from job quests, they shouldn't have any problem tackling Castrum and Praetorium with 4 people, especially since SE would likely adjust the dungeons accordingly. There is really no reason at all that Cape Westwind/Castrum/Praetorium should still require 8 players.

[SummonerSenah]

The thing with the MSQ roulette is, only fresh 50s and the odd 60+ player working on a HW relic need enough poetics that just running some of the other roulettes isn't enough. So 200 poetics isn’t anything worth writing home about. More XP is only relevant to people that still have jobs under 70. IMO SE should have also added a bonus of the new tomestone for 70s doing the roulette, and also make it count towards tank mounts, at the very least. Otherwise I just see the next wave of complaints being that no one can even run it because the queues are too long.

[seraf]

If they threw in 50 tomes of whatever the newest is maybe more people would put up with it.

[Akor]

If they threw in 50 tomes of whatever the newest is maybe more people would put up with it.

the problem is the dungeon gives u 50 tomes of the new one, this wont make ppl que up for it.

[seraf]

the problem is the dungeon gives u 50 tomes of the new one, this wont make ppl que up for it.

I thought it was only Poetics they were giving?

[cactusbees]

Not all newbies want to watch the cutscenes when they hit. I like to go to the journal and watch them like one giant storythread, so it doesn't get broken up.

[Elkanah]

What SHOULD have been done to help fix or patch the resolve:

1) Instance for dungeon (though devs don't want to go back and make an old design)
2) Make TWO sets of the roulettes. 1 Skippable cutscenes, 1 unskippable. This way, you have two sets of players who want to enjoy or do their roulettes. Everyone wins. They can obviously add roulettes to the instances. I don't see why they can't just make them separate as well with the same rewards. >_>
3) Adding better incentives instead of tomes no one gives a flying moogle about. Why not add the new tomes to it? 80 tomes of the brand new tomes. I'd totally run it each day if it means having to run less dungeons in a week!
4) Making it an instance with 7 other NPC's instead of 7 other players
5) Making it with 7 other chocobos and just you. (no joke, I'd actually run this) xD

Otherwise, squeenix has given me every reason to never consider running this dungeon again. Our FC doesn't have new players anymore, since most of us are based out of the same state anyways in our social circle, and we've not been adding too many folks into the game that weren't already players post 50 (at least that I've seen). But unless I have someone who I desperately need to help? I'm not touching this roulette anymore on any job, tank or dps. Thanks Squeenix! That's one less dungeon roulette to cross of the list each day!

[Kallistra]

Watch them make an achievement and stick a mount/minion in there for clearing Prae/CM 1,000 times through the roulette to keep it from dying.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Give it a patch. The massive reduced people queue for MSQ roulette will eventually make them revert, after the complaint threads start about new players not being able to advance the story due to not finding groups or insane queue times of several hours.

Oh, I doubt they revert these changes. We all know how notoriously stubborn they are. Instead, they'll put both in Mentor Roulette (if it isn't already), 50/60 and/or Leveling.