Quote Originally Posted by Jonnycbad View Post
I wish it was the case that if there was a first timer in the fight, item level would be sync'd to the minimum to encourage the new player to learn their role properly and enjoy the fight as it was intended. I understand this would be inconvenient for people doing daily roulettes, but it's hard to get new players to feel motivated to keep playing when they get excited for this epic Titan battle and it just melts. Obviously higher level trials aren't like this, but new players forced to slog through ARR, it can be confusing.
I think if you want to do this, you need to sync item level to a certain minimum for everything. Otherwise, it would make for an even worse experience.

Imagine the person who wants a fast run of trial roulette. They zone in and discover themselves in, say, Titan (Hard)... but there's a first-timer bonus, so they're forced down to minimum ilevel. They look at this, look at trying to teach someone new the fight, and go "Nope." and just exit the instance immediately. Sure, they take a 30 minute penalty, but they go and use that 30 minutes to craft or farm FATEs for their relic or whatever, then queue up for Trial Roulette again. Repeat until they get one with no first-timers, so they don't get the min-ilevel sync and so can just steamroller it.

I do agree that it's sad when things that are supposed to be a major epic fight are an anticlimactic joke. I wish the Crystal Tower raids weren't just a giant zerg rush where you never even see some of the interesting mechanics. I wish Praetorium was an actual exciting, challenging experience worth of capping off the base story. I wish the Alexander raids weren't a joke. I wish the various trials were more challenging even when you have endgame folks synched down in roulettes.

(I think mostly I just wish ilevel sync in this game wasn't broken as heck.)

But I think any solution that is conditional, based on whether or not a first-timer is present, is going to backfire badly. Because there will be people who are more willing to eat the 30 minute penalty than to deal with whatever the perceived inconvenience is.