Please fix alliance roulette

[ray_lunaria]

As someone said in another post, people forcing ARR raids to pop up is messing up with the whole purpose of roulettes. It has become a boring hell of a content and shoudn't be ignored.

Roulette's min iLv needs to be the iLv requirement of the highest raid you have available on your current job so that people can't force a ARR raid every time they queue.

Please devs, do something about it. Its an easy fix and will make a lot of people happy.

[ItMe]

It would make me very happy, that's for sure.

[Doozer]

I like getting a random duty because it adds some degree of excitement instead of knowing exactly what you're getting, but alliance raid roulette definitely stopped being fun when I could probably win money by betting it would be Labyrinth of the Ancients.

I am aware that the Crystal Tower raids are required for certain story things now, but when you arrive and see 2-3 people suddenly change clothes and have a bit more health, it's pretty clear how you ended up there, and it's not because anyone is new. The rest of us shouldn't be punished for someone else's laziness.

[Anya_Synia]

The whole point of roulette is that you are given bonus loot and exp for filling in spots that people are queuing to run. You dont get a choice, it's not meant to be varied, it's purely there to fill in spots.

[Doozer]

You dont get a choice

You're right. Which is why people shouldn't be allowed to unequip gear to choose to do lower level raids on purpose. They should be required to have the minimum ilevel for the highest tier of raids they have unlocked that are available for their current job.

You don't get to have a double standard where people can exploit that but we can't wish to have equal access to all duties in a raid. You're right, the point of roulettes is that you get rewards for filling in spots. So people should get what they get, whether it's Labyrinth of the Ancients or Copied Factory. They shouldn't be able to choose lower level ones because they think it's easier.

[InkB]

You dont get a choice, it's not meant to be varied, it's purely there to fill in spots.

I hope im reading this right but:

You dont get a choice is right. Which is why people should just suck it up and expect Orbanne Monastery when in queue to alliance raids. If people who queue naked have a choice, why shouldnt I have choice (of more than 2 crystal towers)?

It IS meant to be varied. It is NOT roulette if there is only 50% chance of World of darkness, 24% Syrcus tower and 24% Labyrinth. And 0.50% for copied/void ark and 0.49% for rest of them.

[Saix027]

Problem is the scaling in FFXIV is so broken, it should NOT be possible to skip whole boss phases simply, easeir sure with higher gear but not like this i mean you skip Alexander 1 completly even when it was new, the gearscore is whay to high, making such old content way to easy so of coruse people will want such due reward is the same as the higher raid, since Raids itself not reall give much XP aswell except bosses, but others won't care for such anymore, only wanting stones from it so they go the easy road.

Those raids need te be equal, old and lower or not, you are synced down after all, not go in unsynced, FFXIV has a real problem with this, making me sad how people not even know bosses, for god sake i had one tiem Crystal Tower, bad lags, 5-6 people had DC and we wiped at Glasyas or what he is called, and people aborted the raid, becaues they couldn't hassle to even listen a minute how this fight normally works, i also had Cloud of Darkness the worms appear, you ahve no idea how confused people got becasue they never seen them, skipping mechanics like this should not be possible synced. The scalign needs ot heavily tuned down or adjsut bosses to make there phases appear way earlier so people godamn learn things, also get used ot it and make raids equal in that regard as said, so there is simply no "easy way" anymore, same for dungeons.

I like this game for its story but gameplay wise you see how they have no clue to design such encounters, yes there first MMO ever it was said but, you would iamgine they learned by now, on top of with the filler rework in ARR thae we should also get soem dungeon and raid rework maybe. easy yes but not braindead.

[Mhiro]

I absolutely agree with this. The purpose of roulettes is not only to grant a large EXp bonus to people who complete it but also to assist people who need to get the duties flat out done get people. Because of those who cheat the system, people who are trying to do higher level raids (SB mostly with HW and Copied Factory close behind) aren't getting their parties filled. On a personal note, I also prefer to actually do something new everyday instead of end up locked into LotA or ST every single time. Ivalice and Void Ark raids were so fun so I love seeing them when they rarely pop up. I would also venture to add that a ilvl sync should be applied individually to each dungeon in order to force a difficulty increase, but ya'll know how people feel about dealing with anything remotely long, difficult and "casual". From both ends of the player spectrum.

[Roda]

At least reduce the ilevel you get synced to when you go in so we can actually do mechanics instead of slapping a dummy for 2 minutes and then running to the next room. :T

[Jirah]

At least reduce the ilevel you get synced to when you go in so we can actually do mechanics instead of slapping a dummy for 2 minutes and then running to the next room. :T

I second this, Unreal Crystal Tower sounds litty