Put Crystal Tower into MSQ roulette

[Kranel_San]

I'm not sure how it is on other data centers, but on Crystal, alliance raid roulette has just become Crystal Tower roulette. People will strip to get a guaranteed CT run simply because they want the XP and don't want to run anything with even slightly complicated mechanics.
CT is an excellent introduction to alliance raids, but its prevalence in ally raid roulette is frankly, so bad myself and many other people I know simply do not run it anymore. MSQ roulette only has 3 (formerly 2) possible options. Doing this would bulk up the diversity of content in MSQ roulette and allow people who are queuing for alliance raids to experience something other than CT.
The only potential issue I see with this would be people abandoning Castrum/Prae/Porta in favor of CT, but people have been leaving MSQ content in favor of the other because of efficiency since before I started playing.

This move would give MSQ roulette a new purpose beyond being prae roulette, so yes I support this!

[Deveryn]

I don't bother with either roulette, but I think MSQ should be left alone.

Alliance would be better if they could make it ignore IL

[Valfreyja]

Seems like people would just pull the same gear trick to get Void Ark or the like.

This isn't a solution, it's a band-aid.

Why not instead just stop changing gear or equipment while inside the raid?

If you queue up naked for Alliance Raid, given how a lot of the time the Duty Pop can happen several times, you have to mostly stand there naked until you actually get inside Crystal Tower.

If you re-equip your proper gear, and the Duty Pop fails, then pops again, you blew it and can end up with Nier, because your iLVL has increased.

If, however, it's impossible to change gear while inside the raid itself, the team will identify what you are doing, and can vote kick you.

[Broken_Wind]

Whenever someone complains that dungeons are being made too easy I think of this issue

And the funny thing is I bet the group of people that complain about the game being dumbed down and the group of people that put on lower gear for CT contain a good deal of overlap

[YukiB]

Whenever someone complains that dungeons are being made too easy I think of this issue

And the funny thing is I bet the group of people that complain about the game being dumbed down and the group of people that put on lower gear for CT contain a good deal of overlap

There's a difference between "Easy" and "Fast".

Crystal Tower is both. The other alliance raids are Easy and Slow. Lots of people will want Easy and Fast over Easy and Slow if they're doing a roulette, so they abuse the gear system.

Hard and Fast is the way to go, baby. But we don't get that option in roulettes.

[Reimmi]

Agreed. i am so tired of crystal tower

[Lustre]

Hard agree. Crystal tower is the reason I dont want to do alliance raids.

[Juun]

If I play anything thats above level 70, 9 out of 10 times I get Return to Ivalice or Nier.

[Scaramouche]

I'm sure having 24 man instances and 4 man instances in the same pool is going to end well.

[Saraide]

Well this would definitely prevent getting circus tower in alliance roulette, that's for sure.