Quote Originally Posted by xenahawk View Post
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Nope.

Considering that when new alliance raids are relevant, I have zero issues queuing for them directly. I don't think the loss of players who have ignored completing all the other alliance raids thus far from the potential pool of players queuing for alliance roulette is going to be a big loss. I'd rather have the roulette feel like it has 12 options instead of 3.

I also think it's better to have an additional incentive to do the side content versus a handout gimme roulette that can be cheesed down to only 3 options.

Not just to prevent ilvl exploit, but also for their continuing narrative.
Keep in mind, CT was optional for most of the life of this game. It was retroactively made mandatory upon the release of patch 5.3
While the other 3 existing raid series are still entirely optional... Return to Ivalice has to be completed to access further optional content, the Save the Queen content.

While Yorha will probably always exist in a vacuum, the Void Ark series (along with the ShB Role Quests) could become necessary reading if they want to explore the 13th in future expansions. So why not gently encourage the completion of the alliance raids now with gating roulette access rather than suddenly forcing player completion at a later date to progress MSQ? There will still be other ways to level for those that really don't have any interest in larger scale content outside of an easy roulette for experience points.