Castrum Meridianum

[Hintetsomaru]

I know it's been brought up before, but the more people who bring this up, the better. Praetorium usually takes about an hour, while Castrum takes about 45 minutes. However, Praetorium currently gives over twice the amount of experience. And as a consequence, Castrum takes longer, because of people leaving to try and get Praetorium. I spent nearly twenty minutes sitting with three other DPSs and a healer, waiting for something. We finally just started the dungeon with just the five of us, and managed to get past the first boss before we got tank/healers that would stick around.

The Solution:
Up to Experience drop for Castrum to make it more in line with Praetorium. On current, I'm only getting half a level, roughly, for Castrum runs, while Praetorium gives me a level and a half, typically. This is the ideal solution, and would be an easy implemented fix.

[kamikazmik]

i think you've hot some times mixed up here. prae is 45-55m, whereas CM is 20-30m. the xp discrepancy is due to both a shorter length and lack of a boss fight gauntlet.
personally I think they should just be split and you should be able to run both everyday for a bonus if you want, thus stopping people from leaving CM at the beginning and also letting people get their movie in when they want for the daily boost.

[Xtro99]

i think you've hot some times mixed up here. prae is 45-55m, whereas CM is 20-30m. the xp discrepancy is due to both a shorter length and lack of a boss fight gauntlet.
personally I think they should just be split and you should be able to run both everyday for a bonus if you want, thus stopping people from leaving CM at the beginning and also letting people get their movie in when they want for the daily boost.

This pretty much. If they upped the xp in Castrum Meridianum, you'd have people trying to avoid Praetorium completely due to it being too time inefficient.

[hynaku]

Praetorium gives over 3 times the xp that Castrum Meridianum does for 15 minutes longer. When was lvl 70 reaper got 1.5 mil xp from castrum meridianum and next day got Praetorium and got 6mil xp. Was lvl 70 when did them both. If I get Castrum Meridianum I just leave its way harder and not worth running it for how low xp is. Maybe if they double the xp from it I would run it.

[Yuella]

is it really over 3 times? I think CM gives half a level while Praetorium gives 75-80% a level. so xp/time is about the same. i prefer getting CM myself because it's quicker.

[Duskane]

no its not 3x
castrum takes 20 minutes and gives about 45%-55% of a level

prae is 45 minutes and gives around 80% of a level

[DrWho2010]

if they made castrum give the same amount of exp that prae does then you'd have the opposite problem. People would drop from Praetorium instead to fish for Castrum.

[Erik501]

I got into Castrum via the MSQ roulette some days ago and half of the party left right away. That is bad for the game. If I queue for a roulette I know I might get into a dunteon that I don't like very much, but I will do it anyway because that's what I signed for when I used the roulette to queue. The fact that so many people prefer to leave and take the penalty means that the penalty is not so much a penalty, so I have a little suggestion: change slightly the roulette system so that:

Option A: if you quit a duty roulette before ending it or an abandone vote went through you get locked out of such roulette for the day, without the rewards, obviously. I mean, you can queue again, but you will not get the bonus rewards that day.

Option B: If you quit a duty roulette before ending it or an abandone vote went through you get locked in that dungeon for thar roulette for the rest of the day so, either you finish it or you don't get to do anything different from that roulette until you do.

[Tyjacon]

I got into Castrum via the MSQ roulette some days ago and half of the party left right away. That is bad for the game. If I queue for a roulette I know I might get into a dunteon that I don't like very much, but I will do it anyway because that's what I signed for when I used the roulette to queue. The fact that so many people prefer to leave and take the penalty means that the penalty is not so much a penalty, so I have a little suggestion: change slightly the roulette system so that:

Option A: if you quit a duty roulette before ending it or an abandone vote went through you get locked out of such roulette for the day, without the rewards, obviously. I mean, you can queue again, but you will not get the bonus rewards that day.

Option B: If you quit a duty roulette before ending it or an abandone vote went through you get locked in that dungeon for thar roulette for the rest of the day so, either you finish it or you don't get to do anything different from that roulette until you do.

I like your option B, but I would just lock them out of the roulette for the day. There would be no reason for players to run it again if they knew they wouldn't get any bonus rewards.

It's our fault !!!
It was (is) the actions of the players that prompted these changes.
The players are becoming more selfish and disrespectful of anyone's time but their own.

[hynaku]

Castrum is way harder than Praetorium. Castrum has may 5 to 10 minutes of cutscenes when Prae has over 30 minutes of them. Prae is just a walk to the next set of cutscenes but Castrum have to do bunch of huge pulls. If they both gave the same xp I would pick Prae anyday over Castrum. Prae cutscenes give you time to do other things. Done both of them over 100 times and Prae gives over 3 times more xp than Castrum. When your using food, rested xp, and item to increase xp.