Alliance Raid Now iLvl Locked, Why??

[PyurBlue]

Factoring in MSQ progress creates a new cheese where someone leaves an alt at 50 and just queues with it to force CT. Under this current system the people who want to do that are at least forced to level a new alt to beat ARR or gear it up if they do that too much and it hits 60+.

Why leave your alt at 50? Just never unlock anything but CT and you're good.

Already responded to this above. The change will clearly favor the probability of getting alliance raids outside of CT

It does help in that it disallows player influence, partially, but it does nothing for the natural skewing caused by CT's unique position.

Going back to player influence, that's still not completely solved as a player can just not unlock the other raids and still force CT right now.

It is not bad design when you can literally use the MB to buy gear? The game already gives these players that want to continually do AR roulette a viable solution. "They shouldn't have to spend money on gear they don't need". You don't need to do AR roulette, but if you want to, there is the MB . There is no issue with the ilvl check change. It is working as intended, and the whining from certain parts of the playerbase is proving that.



Then buy it right before the patch? It's not like this gear hasn't been out there for almost 20 weeks or anything lmao.

The MB doesn't make this less of a problem. Players are being forced into spending gil, and exist catch up systems like poetics gear are negated. Again this is not an unsolvable problem, it's just clumsy and annoying, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to point out and ask to be improved. Saying that it's working as intended is a bit of a stretch, but again it's besides the point, and you could say the same about the old system that let people force CT - it was intended that being in worse gear influenced the outcome.

The roulette being optional doesn't really matter either. The entire game is optional. We're here because we want to be, and if someone wants to roulette they should be able to roulette without needless hassle.