About new MSQ Roulette reward

[Coratanni]

I can never even get into the roulette, but despite how chill the parties are and the guaranteed level up, the 30 minute queue times during the late hours I can play wreck any chances I can get in.

What times are you queueing for it? Maybe I can help your queue times.

[BillyKaplan]

What times are you queueing for it? Maybe I can help your queue times.

While your attitude is admirable, unless you (well and people like you) can help every single such person on the data center, it's misguided at best.
I've heard nothing but complaints as well, both about the queue time as well as the experience while inside from both roulette goers (who swore off the roulette after the time they complained about) as well as first timers (on alts or in general). And hearing more and more that the queue times shot up only further solidifies how bad an idea this was.

[Vanitas]

What's this msq roulette you speak of?

[Sesera]

What's this msq roulette you speak of?

Roulette: Main Scenario

So basically Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium where the cutscenes are now unskippable since 4.2.

[Vanitas]

.....nope never heard of it.

[TwoOfEleven]

Ran it on an alt recently, it was probably the first time I've seen the cutscenes since my actual first times I got into speedruns telling me to skip. At least the chat was decently entertaining, everyone commenting on how Cid won't shut up or how long is that lift - though it probably gets stale if you run it more often. Wait time wasn't optimistic, got in after about 40-45 mins as a dps. Rewards are pretty meh, won't be bothering if they don't change them unless I'm desperate, I'd rather run the 100 tomes dungeons repeatedly. What hit me most though is that the cutscenes don't finish at the same time for everyone (not even counting in load times), which makes the whole unskippable part pretty much useless. Some of the cutscenes were still running for me when arena got locked out, and in Prae I literally managed to load to land 2 hits on the final boss.

[Ametrine]

What times are you queueing for it? Maybe I can help your queue times.

Between 1AM to 3AM EST on Aether Datacenter on weekdays. Everything is pretty slow around then, but that's when I get to play. I have bad times on Alliance roulettes, too.

[Coratanni]

Between 1AM to 3AM EST on Aether Datacenter on weekdays. Everything is pretty slow around then, but that's when I get to play. I have bad times on Alliance roulettes, too.

Do you have discord? I can run them with you, if you want. I am doing the roulettes on my balmung character daily. Unlike some of the people in this thread, I am enjoying the change in attitude with everyone in the dungeons. I also haven't noticed a change in queue times from the last 2 years.

Last night I ran my 68 warrior through and got over 4 million experience for the roulette. My 66 bard got over 3.4m experience the other day. Since I have one character in all 70's and am getting everything to 70 on my 2nd main(I have 5 level 70's on this alt), I have run everything more than most people here.

Also my main is on your server.

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[Vexander]

Been doing the MSQ Roulette on a job I've been leveling for a few days now. Every single one has been Praetorium. It's enough to start discouraging me from doing the MSQ Roulette at all. I've heard Meridianum is nice and quick, about 30 minutes, but Praetorium feels about an hour longer.

At least I can look forward to the vague chance of getting a Nero Triad Card, I suppose. It's the only one I'm missing from the four Garleans of ARR.

If I needed to make a suggestion, Praetorium should yield a lot more in terms of rewards than it does now. Unfortunately I'm aware that's not possible to distinguish the two.

[Squintina]

Been doing the MSQ Roulette on a job I've been leveling for a few days now. Every single one has been Praetorium. It's enough to start discouraging me from doing the MSQ Roulette at all. I've heard Meridianum is nice and quick, about 30 minutes, but Praetorium feels about an hour longer.

At least I can look forward to the vague chance of getting a Nero Triad Card, I suppose. It's the only one I'm missing from the four Garleans of ARR.

If I needed to make a suggestion, Praetorium should yield a lot more in terms of rewards than it does now. Unfortunately I'm aware that's not possible to distinguish the two.

Actually if you want to level you should be happy to get Praetorium.

CM is actually closer to 35 minutes. If you get even just 1 or both tanks that are new, that can increase to 45 minutes if they do not know the order to go in (*cough* like missing out on the incidiaries) and a lot of the other players just follow along without ever paying attention to that, so backtracking can easily add a lot of minutes to a run)

Praetorium is 45-55 minutes. So it's less than double the time of CM, while giving MORE than double the exp. A lot of people don't realize that the roulette exp reward actually DOES change based on which of the 2 dungeons you get.

So while Praet might take longer, it gives a better experience per time ratio.

And the reason I know that is because unlike a lot of other people, I did not go by "feels like".
I actually recorded time spent and experience given for real runs both before and after the patch in order to make my comparisons.

MSQ roulette likes to give me CM, and it annoys me because I know it's the inferior leveler AND it has at least 3 annoying CS right in the middle of battle. Praeorium's CS are at least in between battles so you can feel safe to step away.

CM however is dangerous to step away from during those CS. Since this game is horrible at applying things to a party at exactly the same time, some people's CS start 1-2 seconds later and thus end 1-2 seconds later. That means for a brief few seconds, someone becomes attackable while the rest of the party can't do anything. That means that the healers (which is what I usually queue has) have to IMMEDIATELY heal that person or they will die. Praetorium's CS never have that.