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[ijuakos_xqwzts]

SquareEnix,

Not even for all week-limited 450 "Comedy" tomes in one shot will you convince me to do this stupid instance five days in a row on roulette. However, if you had a cash shop item to avoid certain instances in your stupid "random" roulettes, you'd bank a small fortune.

[Jojoya]

What's your objection to the dungeon?

You can always skip Expert Roulette and do other things to cap your Comedy.

[Ransu]

Meanwhile, I'd love to get the new dungeon in expert because I literally keep getting the other dungeon every time I have done expert this week lol.

[Absurdity]

Meanwhile, I'd love to get the new dungeon in expert because I literally keep getting the other dungeon every time I have done expert this week lol.

The unfortunate consequence of only having 2 dungeons in expert roulette.




But yeah, while the dungeon is nice visually, gameplay-wise it's the same easy hallway simulator as always.

I'd honestly just recommend joining hunt trains for your weekly tomes if expert is too boring. They provide you with tomes, hunt currency and combat materia at the same time.

[Carin-Eri]

SquareEnix,

Not even for all week-limited 450 "Comedy" tomes in one shot will you convince me to do this stupid instance five days in a row on roulette. However, if you had a cash shop item to avoid certain instances in your stupid "random" roulettes, you'd bank a small fortune.

Couldn't you just do the level 90 roulette instead?

[dspguy]

I had to just run this like 6 times last night before reset. I have no issues with it. Environment is "pretty." No nonsense pulls where you have to "wait." I think most groups I was in cleared it in about 13 minutes or so. I enjoyed the final boss for the dungeon. Just needed a Tellah voiceover about how "he is slowing down!" and I'd be golden.

[Ransu]

The unfortunate consequence of only having 2 dungeons in expert roulette.




But yeah, while the dungeon is nice visually, gameplay-wise it's the same easy hallway simulator as always.

I'd honestly just recommend joining hunt trains for your weekly tomes if expert is too boring. They provide you with tomes, hunt currency and combat materia at the same time.

This complaint always makes me chuckle because its literally the playerbases fault the dungeons are like this (and personally I'm fine with it). The majority just wall to wall pulled and ignored the "off the trail" parts of a dungeon and burned through them as fast as possible, so may as well design them in a manner that the community played them as anyways. The walls between each double pull was to also stop people from exploiting by pulling everything to the boss and then pulling the boss to reset all the trash mobs. Its also a similar reason to why trash mobs no longer give exp because people just pulled everything in certain dungeons all the way to the first boss, killed all the trash and then reloaded into the dungeon.

With that said, I don't find the dungeons boring. Hunt trains on the other hand? lol hard pass.

[Picker]

I like the dungeon but it’s already melting faster than happy town or whatever that 6.0 bunny one is

[Fandele]

People are going to run a dungeon in whatever way is most optimal. You can't blame the player base for that.
I would like to see some dungeons designed a little more creatively, though. I've only played one other mmo (og EverQuest), and very often, a double-pull was a butt-clencher, and a triple was an almost guaranteed wipe. Nearly every class had some kind of crowd control/pull splitting utility.
So that's going to influence my perspective a bit, but I think making some sort of thought/strategy involved in pulling mobs would be a good thing.

[BlazeMarshall]

People are going to run a dungeon in whatever way is most optimal. You can't blame the player base for that.
I would like to see some dungeons designed a little more creatively, though. I've only played one other mmo (og EverQuest), and very often, a double-pull was a butt-clencher, and a triple was an almost guaranteed wipe. Nearly every class had some kind of crowd control/pull splitting utility.
So that's going to influence my perspective a bit, but I think making some sort of thought/strategy involved in pulling mobs would be a good thing.

That goes back to WoW's old conundrum. Crowd controlling individual mobs makes the pull take longer, which pisses off the impatient speedrunners, and stops getting used the instant people overgear a place enough to start aoeing down mob packs again. And any time said AoE goes back to no longer being a viable option, people start whining and complaining and screaming until the devs have no choice but to let people just AoE stuff down.

As you yourself said: "People are going to run a dungeon in whatever way is most optimal. You can't blame the player base for that."