Is SE planning to deal with ilvl cheese people?

[Ralphe2449]

This is getting a bit much

[Hanayumi]

Nupe! They wont cause crystal tower raids are required, while all others are totally optional, so they rather have folks run the tower stuff.

[Myrany]

ok what is iLevel cheese?

[ReiMakoto]

ok what is iLevel cheese?

If you take off all your gear before queuing for alliance raid your ilvl becomes too low to queue into anything but the crystal tower series, and as crystal tower is way quicker and gives the same exp, people do this on purpose to get a quick roullete

[Ransom]

ok what is iLevel cheese?

It's where you intentionally queue to a roulette in low ilevel gear so that you don't have a chance of getting the higher level raids. Lots of people just want the low level, fast and easy raids and guarantee them to themselves this way. Unfortunately, it leaves people who want to run the higher level stuff waiting around in queue forever.

[VelKallor]

Removing gear to be at the right ilevel for CT but not enough for other raids.

[Ralphe2449]

Nupe! They wont cause crystal tower raids are required, while all others are totally optional, so they rather have folks run the tower stuff.

Well nobody said to remove crystal tower, they can increase the rewards of later raids instead to incentivize people to stay.

Though the fact that you get to play a different raid instead of CT and get to play a class that feels far better than the dreadfully boring lvl50 classes is reward enough for me usually xd

[Myrany]

ty all for the answer

[Jojoya]

Item level cheese isn't the problem.

The problem is that out of 24 players matched in the group, there's a high probability that one of those players is leveling a job under level 60, doing the mandatory CT requirement for MSQ or has never unlocked any of the other Alliance raids.

What SE needs to do is move the 3 CT raids into their own roulette. It's not going to disrupt game balance to add another roulette so players can get bonus XP for jobs they're leveling while separating the one thing that's keeping the Alliance Raid roulette from behaving like an actual roullette instead of a coin toss.

[AnotherPerson]

This is getting a bit much

The vast majority of people don't ILVL Cheese. More specifically, Aglaia is still run frequently as it is the most recent alliance raid currently in 6.2. If you waited that long without a queue pop, it's most likely that either the queue broke (which sometimes require re-queueing), you queued during dead hours at night for your DC, or you're in OCE Datacenter.
OCE Datacenter is mostly a ghost town at the moment, mainly because a lot of people who were in the other Datacenters don't want to leave their friends and FC behind.