Please fix Alliance Raid "Roulette"

[icy_]

Yeah, the later (60+) content definitely feels better, tho I've yet to unlock the 70+ stuff, where I imagine it feels even smoother. Just from what I can see, builds really come together in terms of survival and extra fun burst or tricks.

I've run into the flip side of this by accident, doing Leveling roulette on a lesser-played job. Unintentionally I find myself in a 60+ dungeon and have to play my best ;D (of course I probably could have removed gear to cheese it or w/e, lol). It seems that if you *can* do harder stuff, you're prioritized to do it, for the most part. OP just had bad RNG, because I've gotten into the lvl60 raids quite a lot too, even if the Crystal Tower ones win out a bit. (again, I'm locked out of the 70+ stuff for now).

[SummonerSenah]

Totally agree with OP.

Also a hot take: if having to deal with anything less than a perfect run is going to make someone's roulette longer than they have time for (and that's why they like to cheese ilvl for the level 50 raids), they shouldn't even enter the roulette tbh. People still wipe in Labyrinth of the Abyss and World of Darkness so cheesing your ilvl still isn’t a 100% guarantee of an easy, fast run.

[MOZZYSTAR]

So, a friend of mine and I have been making bets when we jump into Alliance Roulette.
I bet Crystal Tower in general or Ozma (I forget its proper name, City of Mhach?)
He bets LotA. Just LotA.
Our dream: Rid or Rab or some other one
The reality: CT or Ozma
We have not had a single alliance that wasn't CT or Ozma in weeks, at least a good month.

[Elizar_Naki]

I actually don't do alliance roulette, or most other roulettes, as often as I'd like anymore. Sucks since I enjoy the bulk of the content in alliance, trials, and normal raid roulettes and would love to contribute to the solution in alliance rather than the problem, but it's just so easy to get my weekly tomes elsewhere while doing things I wanna do for other reasons, and I sadly have no other incentive to run those roulettes (other than just for fun, which takes a backseat to fun plus rewards). Elite hunt marks here and there for the tricerotops mount, frontline for the mining mech mount (which, admittedly, is more "rewards" than "fun" for me, as I've never enjoyed or been good at pvp in any game I've played), Kinko's for my weekly coin...I'll do at least one EX queue for the guaranteed WT sticker, but anything beyond that isn't guaranteed to be part of my weekly plan anymore if I get enough tomes elsewhere.

And yeah, I'd say 90% or more of the times when I still did alliance were something in CT, usually Lab or Syrcus. SOMETIMES I'd get a Mhach raid, usually Ark or Weeping City. I barely ever see an Ivalice raid unless I manually queue for it (which, as stated before, takes forever), and I've NEVER seen Kinko's in roulette (not sure it's actually in alliance roulette, but it'd surprise me if it wasn't).

[Pepsi_Plunge]

and I've NEVER seen Kinko's in roulette (not sure it's actually in alliance roulette, but it'd surprise me if it wasn't).

It's not. The current raid is never in the roulette.

[Elizar_Naki]

Weird. I swear I got Ivalice in alliance roulette when they were current. Meh.

[Guntank81]

I don't have a problem with the old 50 alliance raids. If anything they are quick and can be done under 25-30 mins plus you get a lot of bonus EXP.

I never had a group wipe at Behemoth if anything we kill him before the 2nd meteor and if we have good DPS, we can kill him while he's casting the first meteor. I'd rather have Labyrinth than Dun Caith because of how many times people wipe to the first both because of its death mechanic.

[Infindox]

I'm pretty sure the recent raid is in the Roulette, unless they changed it. I remember getting the last Ivalice raid one before ShB hit a few times (and people leaving....).

Onto the topic, yeah, something needs done. My bf is enjoying the game and is catching up on content with me, and wanted to get HW raids out of the way. We sat in queue for almost an hour for all of them, one the queue popped and we spent almost 5 mins failing the ready check.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

It doesn' t go into circulation until the next raid in the series drops. If memory serves.

[samurailargo]

The only option I can see that would fix this is how they worked on PvP in the past. Have all the abilities unlocked for the raids, it's not really important and can be frustrating at times to be missing half of the toolkit, and make them all a singular level. Stats are really not important unless your at endgame or doing minimum ilvl. That would remove the cheesing drastically. Making the only bar to entry being unlocking the quest.