Please equalize rewards between Castrum and Prae

[niko1415]

People do MSQ roulette for different reasons, right?
Like tome farming or leveling. I have yet to see someone slow crawl prae and have a lovely 8-person chat in an instance.

If the reason people "fish" for certain instances is because they want A or B, and you don't take away the reward for completing A or B, then that's just rewarding those kinds of behaviors.
So why not take away the completion bonus if they leave the instance/kicked from the instance?

That way, you do not change any of the reward structure or the internals of the instance.
Not that I think this idea will gain traction, or this idea will get flamed to oblivion.

But I am getting annoyed by people leaving, and I feel it got worse this time around.

[Jennah]

If it were up to me, I'd get rid of MSQ Roulette entirely.

Don't bother with trusts either.
Make the actual dungeon parts solo instances.
You'd only have to lower a few enemy stats and remove a few mechanics (like robots and cannons) to have a single person be able to solo.

Turn the actually important fights into regular trials. Livia. The Ultima Weapon. Possibly Gaius and Nero.
Scale the numbers up so they feel actually climactic for new players, but don't otherwise change them much, if at all.
Stick these fights in the trial roulette, and they'll get run, and fill quickly.
Done.

Definitely make Lahabread a solo battle, a la Zenos at level 90. If you're going to re-design a fight completely, do it here - Lahabrea deserves better.

All the cutscenes, obviously, go in the solo instances, or before unlocking group content. Or after a group victory. You'd even be able to tell Gaius for who you do fight again.

[Lunalepsy]

I want to skip my cutscenes!

[hynaku]

They should both give the same exp. bonus. Prae is so easy just one big pull and rest is no challenge just walk from one cutscene to another. Castrum There is a lot of big pulls and way harder than Prae to do. To me Castrum should always gave the biggest bonuses.

[AbysmalDuck]

I feel like when people don't want to do the roulette as intended and just complain about it, they should just delete it. Don't want to be happy with what is given? Do without then.

[Xuled]

No thanks. It's actually setup quite well as it is. Need tomes? Fish for Castrum. Need EXP? Fish Prae. No fixes required honestly.

[RyuDragnier]

They should probably at this point make Castrum and Prae solo instances, and then rework/remove a number of roulettes.

1. Move all mandatory dungeons for MSQ into MSQ Roulette, give them all the CM bonus exp amount combined with the 50/60/70/80 roulette bonus exp amount.
2. Remove Leveling Roulette, rename the 50/60/70/80 roulette to Optional Dungeon Roulette, put in all dungeons not needed to beat MSQ in it, and give it the Leveling roulette bonus exp amount.

There, we've fixed MSQ Roulette and done away with the ridiculous naming scheme for the level cap dungeons. Not to mention this makes it so all mandatory dungeons, meaning Snowcloak, ARF, Sohm Al, The Burn, etc. are all in one roulette so there's a lot more variety. And organizes all the optional stuff into another roulette so it's easier to find people for some of the roulettes (it can be hell to find people for the capstone dungeons).

[Floortank]

If they make them the same exp, everyone will quit Praetorium. Honestly a terrible suggestion OP and everyone parroting it.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

If they make them the same exp, everyone will quit Praetorium. Honestly a terrible suggestion OP and everyone parroting it.

Not really. Prae takes about 45mins or so on average, and Castrum takes around 25-30.
Leaving Prae means you'd eat a 30min penalty, meaning it'd take longer to leave Prae, wait out the 30min queue, wait out the queue timer (which can be a while if you're a dps), then do Castrum, when you could save time in comparison by just finishing the Prae. That all even assumes you'd get Castrum on the 2nd queue, when you could just get Prae again, adding another 30+min timeblock to the time it took you to 'complete' your MSQ roulette for the day.

People only fish for Prae because of the fact the reward is also far larger, thus there's an enticement to do so. Someone only looking for the exp from MSQ roulette won't care to try and fish Castrums if they had the same EXP, unless they really wanted to try and gamble and had a ton of crafting/non instance stuff to do in between each failed gamble so that they're never 'wasting' any time waiting out the penalties.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

I'm still praying for prae.