So people are defending the msq dc exploit

[BillyKaplan]

I would like to hope that the trust system will tie into how the MSQ roulette is handled.

Same, though I hope it won't be a roulette anymore. Arguably the AI needed to make those things solo instances already exists, between NPCs and the mechanics they handled in the 4.1 Lakshmi fight, but I do think they'd need to tweak the dungeons a bit to let NPCs run it, so the earliest we'll see that in is 5.0.

At this point, it's just an irritating system that the devs really can't fix without alienating some part of the player base and screwing over someone.

Honestly the only downside I can think of with making this not a roulette is exp and tomes handicap. Which I don't think people will be upset over for long, especially given how a lot of people don't even run that roulette in the first place, least of all with the cutscene changes.

Why do people run it if they hate it so much?

Experience and tomes. It's supposedly a lucrative roulette.

[jameseoakes]

Experience and tomes. It's supposedly a lucrative roulette.

But if they take the unskippable cutscenes out they'll have to put the rewards back down.

[BillyKaplan]

But if they take the unskippable cutscenes out they'll have to put the rewards back down.

And that worked for several years before SE decided to shake the boat with an arguably equally problematic solution. But I dare say it was better before because then people had a choice. You wanted to take your time through? You could've put up a PF and chilled with it. My fc took me through it unsynced and while it would've been better if I could just experience it properly the first time around, it was doable the proper way on my terms. And if people didn't care for the cutscenes outright, they could've skipped them and just powered through the place.