(Suggestion) Add minimum ilevel for roulettes based on your level

[linay]

I'd support adding a scaling minimum ilvl to the roulette but there's a caveat.

How do you handle folks that hit 60/70/etc. before they've unlocked the appropriate tomestone vendor? Or even white gear vendor? Somebody who's diligent about running roulettes is going to be 60 well before they hit HW. Same with SB and ShB. Are they now doomed to the vagaries of the market board or the good will of somebody who has? Too risky IMO.

There are two ways to handle that. The first is to use the min ilvl of the highest raid a character has unlocked. The second is to not story and region gate those vendors. As an aside having all the poetics vendors in one spot would be a huge QoL feature.

To be fair, roulettes are optional dailies that are meant to fill queues for duties while giving experience and tomestones as primary rewards. If your character is outleveling the content, you can afford not to do the roulettes and simply catch up by getting gear via going through the MSQ.

[PyurBlue]

To be fair, roulettes are optional dailies that are meant to fill queues for duties while giving experience and tomestones as primary rewards. If your character is outleveling the content, you can afford not to do the roulettes and simply catch up by getting gear via going through the MSQ.

That doesn't make it any less annoying to be arbitrarily locked out of content. I really dislike when solutions are proposed that end up trading one problem for another, and if a player could end up being locked out of the roulette then ilvl scaling or whatever is a really bad idea.

Just separate out the level 50 raids. Let people who only want to run them, run them. The players that want to run the other raids can queue in a 60+ alliance roulette. If you want to entice the former camp to run both roulettes, make the 60+ roulette give better rewards.

[linay]

That doesn't make it any less annoying to be arbitrarily locked out of content.

You wouldn't be arbitrarily locked out of content. That would imply there is no system to determine whether you can do a content, which there is. Level, item level, role, MSQ progression, prerequisite quest, and maximum daily/weekly cap requirements are all part of a system that does not arbitrarily lock you out of content.

[PyurBlue]

You wouldn't be arbitrarily locked out of content. That would imply there is no system to determine whether you can do a content, which there is. Level, item level, role, MSQ progression, prerequisite quest, and maximum daily/weekly cap requirements are all part of a system that does not arbitrarily lock you out of content.

I don't know, if you meet the requirements to enter all duties you've unlocked for a given roulette, but then can't queue for the roulette itself because you meet the requirements for a duty that you can't unlock and might not even know about, that would feel like an arbitrary restriction. Sure it's all defined by a set of rules, but it's potentially confusing and very likely frustrating. As much as the current alliance roulette situation bothers me I'd rather SE do nothing instead of changing things in such a way to create new problems.

[linay]

I don't know, if you meet the requirements to enter all duties you've unlocked for a given roulette, but then can't queue for the roulette itself because you meet the requirements for a duty that you can't unlock and might not even know about, that would feel like an arbitrary restriction. Sure it's all defined by a set of rules, but it's potentially confusing and very likely frustrating. As much as the current alliance roulette situation bothers me I'd rather SE do nothing instead of changing things in such a way to create new problems.

The lock wouldn't be in the duty, but in the roulette, which would tell you in plain, red letters what requirements you are missing. Roulettes can have separate requirements than the duties that are contained in the roulette.