Alliance Raid Looting

[brokenghost]

I will just cut straight to the point here, I have a serious issue with the looting system in Alliance Raids. There are a few pieces of gear I'm missing from the Heavensward Alliance series and would very much like to get them for glam. The problem is as you probably guessed the queue times. Waiting twenty minutes minimum just for a chance to even see the gear I want is unacceptable to me, it's one of the reasons I quit other MMOs.

The Development team for 14 has a great thing going with the totems you receive from Extreme Content where theres that RNG protection. So I would like to see that system implemented in Alliance Raids where you receive a totem for every clear of the raid. You could then use those totems at vendor and buy the gear, triad, minion, whatever you want.

I would like to also say that I would not mind this half as much if the queue times for these raids (besides Crystal Tower) could get up to an hour long. Farming through party finder doesnt seem like much of an option either since its up to the RNG gods you find a group. 24 is a lot more than 8 and I struggle finding 8 people a lot of the time.

I just want my Void Ark Caster gloves

[Bsrking5]

Party finder, unsynced. You need like maybe 5 people, just wait until you get 6 and tell them you're starting in 5 minutes regardless of how many players show up. And then do it. You do need at least one in each alliance. Spam untill you got whatever you and everyone else wants.

[Atelier-Bagur]

So like...there's this neat little feature in the game called Party Finder and-

[Jeeqbit]

You can do it unsynced with 3. You might need more for certain mechanics, it depends, but 3 is the minimum you need to actually queue into it unsynced.

[Frizze]

And good news, the next mogtome event looks like it will have a shadows of mhach focus. That means youll have like a month of much shorter ques. Good luck!

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Once again, this is a tragic side effect of individuals dragging the pool of Alliance Raid Roulette participants into CT using item level manipulation (you notice it by checking if someone's HP isn't full when you zone in), reducing how many people are left for 3.X/4.X/5.X series raids since most people will run the roulette once a day.

This isn't just people doing MSQ in Crystal Tower or directly queueing for it and I'd appreciate if we stopped lying to ourselves about this.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Once again, this is a tragic side effect of individuals dragging the pool of Alliance Raid Roulette participants into CT using item level manipulation (you notice it by checking if someone's HP isn't full when you zone in), reducing how many people are left for 3.X/4.X/5.X series raids since most people will run the roulette once a day.

This isn't just people doing MSQ in Crystal Tower or directly queueing for it and I'd appreciate if we stopped lying to ourselves about this.

And once again, thats an issue thats not as common as you might think.

Do we have to continue bringing up this conversation?

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

And once again, thats an issue thats not as common as you might think.

Do we have to continue bringing up this conversation?

The mere fact that this occurs to begin with is an issue in itself. Frequency doesn't matter as much as the fact that it has been used this way, to dismay to various other players.

So yes, we do have to continue bringing up this conversation. Or should we pretend the issue isn't important because it doesn't happen often enough for certain people?

[Atelier-Bagur]

The mere fact that this occurs to begin with is an issue in itself. Frequency doesn't matter as much as the fact that it has been used this way, to dismay to various other players.

So yes, we do have to continue bringing up this conversation. Or should we pretend the issue isn't important because it doesn't happen often enough for certain people?

The fact that it happens isnt the problem, but the fact that people pretend its frequency without actual data to prove it is what I have issue with.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

The fact that it happens isnt the problem, but the fact that people pretend its frequency without actual data to prove it is what I have issue with.

I totally get you, which is why my point wasn't about frequency but rather it existing and it being used in the first place. How frequent this is done depends on datacenter, time of day and current patch (like how some patches ask you to complete specific raid series, like Bozja required Ivalice series).

My problem is the existence of it as it is a clear point that can be abused and has been abused. The frequency is irrelevant.