Please remove MSQ dungeons from Mentor roulette

[Garten]

The thing "you are put where you are needed" Is debatable. I think you are put in the First slot free available.
If msq were banned from mentor roulette this does not mean that THAT slot would not be filled in seconds either way..
So you could Say that yes, TECNICALLY you were needed, but not so much..

[Doozer]

The thing "you are put where you are needed" Is debatable. I think you are put in the First slot free available.
If msq were banned from mentor roulette this does not mean that THAT slot would not be filled in seconds either way..
So you could Say that yes, TECNICALLY you were needed, but not so much..

It's how all roulettes work, so there's no reason for it to be any different. Roulettes put you where there are empty slots. So mentor roulette does as well. Being in an EX trial in DF is no more significant. Then again, I hear most mentors just leave those too, so I get the feeling they just want an easy ride.

[Mithron]

Mentor roulette isn't for you, it's for them. Whether you're teaching them or watching cutscenes, you're there so they can do the content. Period.

I'd be helping a lot more people where I'm actually needed instead of watching cutscenes. There's really no counter argument you can provide to that. It's not that hard to understand. MSQ Roulette has plenty of other people willing to watch cutscenes and populate it. Green leafs looking to do extreme primals synced don't, even if they try to PF it, or green leafs in new dungeons or any other content in the game that does actually need my help.

My population in a cutscene dungeon is not helping when there are plenty of other viable candidates available.

[Zeidrich]

As a new player, the high level players escorting me through Castrum and Praetorium didn't make my experience better. It wasn't a fun experience, the cutscenes were nice, but the gameplay was not fun.

What would have made it fun for me would have been if I had gone through it solo, or with friends. Where I could figure out what was going on at my pace or with people who wanted to be there with me instead of ending up on the wrong side of an elevator or not picking up a necessary key or whatever else while people are a mile ahead of me because they just want to end their suffering.

They could make it something fun. Let me explore the dungeon, let me do it at a pace that works for me, let me have engaging fights.

Like, it's billed as though the reason that high level players have to sit through these cutscenes so many times is to let low level players get through required MSQ dungeons. But the only reason that they are required for this is because the game requires 8 people to do it. But it doesn't have to. Conceptually, you want 8 people to do it because it feels more fun to do in a group. But when 7 of 8 players don't actually want to be there, it's not fun. And when the systems and mechanics are trivialized because of the way scaling works and the way that it's been tuned, it's still not fun.

Throw me in there on my own, with my friends. Give me a couple of scions or random WoL NPCs to tank, heal or DPS, whatever roles are missing. Let me take my time. Let me fight against the bosses. I would want to do that, but I didn't get to. The high level players going through didn't want to do it, but they had to. Seems silly.

[Venjamin]

It's how all roulettes work, so there's no reason for it to be any different. Roulettes put you where there are empty slots. So mentor roulette does as well. Being in an EX trial in DF is no more significant. Then again, I hear most mentors just leave those too, so I get the feeling they just want an easy ride.

This is by far the silliest response. By your logic, if those roulettes are removed, we're not needed there, right? And if no one wants to do Prae/CM anyways, why force people to do it? The MSQ roulette exists already.

[Ramiren]

You don't need mentors to help with duties that are steamroll-watchcutscene-steamroll-watchcutscene.
You don't need bodies to fill duties for which there is an entire roulette that is just those two duties and grants an obscene amount of XP.

Mentors are no more effective in DR:MainScenario than any other person who's ever completed it, are not needed to fill the party slots, and don't get any rewards worth mentioning for being trapped in a 45 minute cutscene dungeon.

Just wanted to add that Main Scenario Roulette doesn't give an obscene amount of XP anymore. It actually gives considerably less than just doing a single normal dungeon.

Just ran one on my Paladin, got 1.8 million XP, about 1/4 of a level. Did Tower of Zot and got about 3.2 million, exact same buffs, had the adventurer in need bonus for Main Scenario.

I agree that strictly speaking it isn't content that requires a mentor, but given that once word gets out that the XP is abysmal, Main Scenario roulette is going to turn into a dead queue, they're going to need all the queues they can get just to get newbies through the ARR finale in a reasonable amount of time.

[ForteNightshade]

And yet, you're getting placed in those duties. So clearly they do need you. No need to get mad.

This is because Mentor Roulette will always prioritize finding sprouts to pair mentors with. It has nothing whatsoever to do with needed queues.

It's how all roulettes work, so there's no reason for it to be any different. Roulettes put you where there are empty slots. So mentor roulette does as well. Being in an EX trial in DF is no more significant. Then again, I hear most mentors just leave those too, so I get the feeling they just want an easy ride.

Ironically, you could complete an EX trial faster than Prae assuming you get sprouts who will actually listen. The issue with mentors leaving circles back to a poor reward structure. When you can get 5 minute Guildhests or 15 minute dungeons, there's zero incentive to stick around for EX trials that may just waste an hour with no rewards or sit through Prae without the accompanying mass EXP/Tomes that MSQ Roulette provides. Something to keep in mind is they had to buff MSQ Roulette twice after forcing cut scenes because nobody would touch it. So it's hardly surprising mentors don't let getting it.

All in all though, Mentor Roulette is more a queue filler than anything else. I do think they should clean it up, though there is some apparent "big change" coming for both Castrum and Prae. Who knows.