Normal Raid Roulette XP Bonus

[Luin]

tomestones. the roulette is in there for tomestones. and for newer players to actually get a chance of getting a group to do alexander and the binding coil for the first time. I missed alexander (and sadly, most of heavensward) but caught up in stormblood and let me tell you, trying to queue for alexander no matter the role had a 30 minute queue time minimum

Coil isn't in the Normal Raid roulette (and never will be, a lot of SC and FC is harder than some current Omega Savage).

And trying to queue for anything that isn't current content or in the Trial/Leveling Roulette gives every role a 30 minute queue time. That's what Party Finder is for.

As for tomestones, why? It's a terrible source of tomestones. Just do 50/60 or idk, keep playing? If you're a new player who actually needs tomestones, the dungeons in post 3.x story flood you with them. If you aren't a new player then spam Keeper of the Lake or certain Trials fishing for 1st Timer bonuses. As for farming Creation/Mendacity, it's not good for that, either.

Also, the roulette only puts you into Alexander that you have unlocked. Someone is still dealing with those queues; the roulette, ideally, should exist for players hard queuing into Alexander, to fill their party with roulette players. This is the same reason why you do Mentor Roulette you end up in something silly like ZurvanEX.

Just don't do it?

Really defeats the entire purpose of having a roulette, doesn't it?

The point is to get players in the roulette, filling queues, so players can experience the old content. If the roulette is literally worthless to the point where it takes at least twice as long as a FATE without wipes, and gives less XP, why would anybody do that roulette?

Normal Raid roulette is a total waste of time and gives zero practical benefits. It gives less XP than a fate and worse tomestones than any at-level content. The only reason you would do Normal Raid Roulette is if you wanted to do Alexander, and considering we *needed* a roulette because nobody wanted to do Alexander... Exactly.

It needs to give at least as much XP as Trial Roulette.