Quote Originally Posted by Mavrias View Post
they really dont. idk where this misconception came from that all roulettes match you with first timers above all else but not even mentor roulette does that.
That's the purpose of roulettes; to help people new to content get a party to clear it with.
  • New player queues for Sastasha. It eventually pulls people who are queued to leveling and mentor roulettes.
  • They queue for Steps of Faith, it pulls people queued to trial and mentor roulettes to help them clear it.
On rare occasions, people might queue directly for a dungeon when it's not their first time to level alt jobs or farm something. If they are leveling an alt job they probably aren't very good with that job yet.

And that is why people complain of the skill level in dungeons. Roulettes match you with probably-low-skill, probably-first-timers queueing directly for content, by design. If you don't want to be matched with low-skill players then it's illogical to do roulettes without a premade.

The roulette you're most likely to not find first timers in as often after the first few weeks of a patch is expert roulette, but even then you will sometimes.