MSQ roulette and AFK

[Vahlnir]

The only time I afk is during cutscenes, but I make sure I'm back before they end. I guess I never really understood why people afk indefinitely. I mean, I get not wanting to put the effort in, but it's more beneficial to help the dungeon go faster by staying active.

[Macleod]

The only time I afk is during cutscenes, but I make sure I'm back before they end. I guess I never really understood why people afk indefinitely. I mean, I get not wanting to put the effort in, but it's more beneficial to help the dungeon go faster by staying active.

Yeah, sadly I've had several runs lately where I complain about the afk-er(s) and try to kick, and I tend to get a couple people that always say something stupid like "It's only MS roulette, no big deal" and things like that...and then I remind them if we were all so selfish as the afk leeches, we'd never get to the end and the instance would time out with no rewards. So, yes, it is a big deal.

I'm going to alter an old saying from a game I used to play where "Q" was the default auto attack button...we used to say "Press Q to Play"...now I'm going to say "Press Queue to Play, NOT AFK!"

[MistakeNot]

I don’t like MSQ roulette to but since it gives a fair amount of exp I do. With that I need to respect the others 7 players in the party. And stay AFK and trying to get the exp is unacceptably. And the number of ppl doing that is getting bigger, so I hope SE start to think in some punishment to prevent those players to do that.

If people go AFK in the dungeon, then you have a perfectly good reason to votekick them.

[Kelani]

During the event for the moogle tomes I actually found myself falling asleep during the cut scenes and waking up halfway through a battle. It wasn't intentional and I never actually got kicked but it happened. Now the event is over I've stopped doing the daily MSQ roulette just to take a break from them as I spammed them so much during the event.

Saying that, whilst I was spamming them, I did notice there were a few afkers during some of them. Mostly they'd come back during the dungeon at some point and it made me wonder if like me, they were falling asleep to the cut scenes! In future runs, I'll be making sure I have my switch readily by me so I can play on that during the cut scenes and stop myself from falling asleep!

[Nixxe]

I think there's something weird with some of the cutscenes since ShB (or maybe earlier). I have an SSD and used to reliably load either first or tied for first, but since ShB, certain cutscenes seem to always result in the person who triggered them coming out of them 20 seconds or more before anyone else. The most obvious example of this is the cutscene immediately prior to fighting Gaius on the elevator. Additionally, the cutscene immediately prior to the fight for Lahabrea never finishes for me with everyone else (I usually come out of it about the time the arena goes white), even though on any other cutscenes other than the two I specified I am still the first or tied for first.

[van_arn]

I think there's something weird with some of the cutscenes since ShB (or maybe earlier). I have an SSD and used to reliably load either first or tied for first, but since ShB, certain cutscenes seem to always result in the person who triggered them coming out of them 20 seconds or more before anyone else. The most obvious example of this is the cutscene immediately prior to fighting Gaius on the elevator.

That's a language thing. The Japanese localization finishes before the English one, for example. At least, that's what I've heard.

[Nixxe]

That's a language thing. The Japanese localization finishes before the English one, for example. At least, that's what I've heard.

I hadn't considered that since it seems they won't let you change the pace at which the text auto-advances, but I'll keep that in mind and test it out when I feel like leveling another job.

I personally feel the dungeons shouldn't have a i130 sync. It makes them boring and ruins any atmosphere or experience new players might have. All this dramatic build up and the boss gets face rolled in 30 seconds. Change the sync to i70. Which would be the best non capped gear available at the time of ARR's release. Maybe if they had some sort of challenge again, people would find them more engaging to do and not afk.

If the dungeons are even remotely difficult or have any chance of failure, I'd just not run them again. The XP reward would have to be utterly absurd for me to want to risk wiping in ancient content I've done dozens of times while playing a gimpy character that hits like a wet noodle and has -5 abilities.

[LunarEmerald]

I hadn't considered that since it seems they won't let you change the pace at which the text auto-advances, but I'll keep that in mind and test it out when I feel like leveling another job.



If the dungeons are even remotely difficult or have any chance of failure, I'd just not run them again. The XP reward would have to be utterly absurd for me to want to risk wiping in ancient content I've done dozens of times while playing a gimpy character that hits like a wet noodle and has -5 abilities.

13 million at level 79 IS absurd.

[KageTokage]

13 million at level 79 IS absurd.

That's around the amount you get from doing a full run of the 79 dungeon, except that takes less time.

That said, if you actually need the tomestones the MSQ roulette might be better still.

[Nixxe]

13 million at level 79 IS absurd.

It really isn't. You can't just look at the raw number. You also have to look at the time spent. 55% of a level for 45 minutes is only about as good as a slow Heaven on High group if you were to spam Heaven on High for the same duration. The only real advantage to MSQ roulette is that there's no deep dungeon available at the moment for levels 71-80, so it scales and HoH doesn't. It's also honestly not much better than running dungeons. I really only run it to take a break from other content.