Expert Dungeons

[Avoidy]

Regarding the original topic, I'm not a fan of this change either. I scrolled through the patch notes and kinda just... looked at the dungeon list and felt sad. Expert already sucked, but at least there was the potential for variety. Not anymore, I guess. Oh well. Just ANOTHER roulette I won't bother doing from here on out. Put it in the pile with alliance raid roulette (aka crystal tower roulette), leveling roulette when I don't need exp (because 90% of the time it's COPPERBELL MINES), msqr (literally no reason to do this unless you're leveling, and even then I have to really hype myself up to do it), 50607080 roulette (aka snowcloak roulette) and normal raid roulette ever since I unlocked HW raids, because now all I get is Alexander 2, aka the hallway add fiesta.

Literally the term roulette is a misnomer in this game; all I get every day are the same handful of unfun dungeons and raids from that cursed part of the game where your kit is total trash and your party are free-trial bots who run into walls. I literally had a copperbell the other day (again!) and the tank and healer had nearly the same gibberish name and both immediately turned around and left the dungeon without saying a word. Literal bots that queued into the general queue by mistake. The DPS and I just stared at each other. I waited 12 minutes in queue for that. To hell with it!

Moreover, for folks that don't raid, the expert roulette being limited to the most recent two dungeons keeps some focus on the dungeons likely to drop more useful gear for those folks, meaning they can run those dungeons more readily (as there's a separate pool dedicated to filling parties out for specifically those dungeons).

I agree with everything else you wrote, but I wanted to quote this part because as someone who doesn't do high end content, I still find current-dungeon gear basically worthless stat-wise since the buyable crafted sets are better (and they also get pretty affordable after like, 3 days of people undercutting each other), and even the stuff I acquired in the previous patch will be better. Someone returning to the game after a looooong break might try and farm that stuff but they'd be better off just earning gil and buying a crafted set from the previous patch and then augmenting it in Radz At Han.

It's always really disappointing too. I get why it's done, to keep crafted gear relevant, but it sucks when a new dungeon comes out and literally everything in it is vastly inferior to the stuff you just bought on the market or casually acquired last patch. I'm really not sure who that gear is intended for.