Please remove MSQ dungeons from Mentor roulette

[Ravenblade1979]

Green Leafs do not need my help watching cutscenes, but other Green Leafs do need my help with actual other content. I'm happy to coach seven of you through any extreme trial, but not cutscenes.

Lemme see. So you don't want to do msq scenario. Possibly because cutscenes are forced due to the playerbase in the past who would boot sprouts or force them to skip cutscenes as not to miss out on the fights or miss out on the fights due to watching cutscenes.

Ya got all rights not to queue it. So don't and help sprouts in the other dailies

[hynaku]

They should just do away with the mentor roulette. They don't need any help with how easy duties is now.

[Asako]

They should just do away with the mentor roulette. They don't need any help with how easy duties is now.

It's not about the difficulty. It never was. It was always about filling duties and it was one of the best things they every put in the game. I most certainly do not want to go back to 30+ minute dps queues during prime time again like it was back in ARR/HW. Getting instances filled as fast as possible is the best thing for everyone.

Just remove the rewards and we are sorted. Once you put rewards in people think they are entitled to decided what they want the roulette to be. If people don't like getting the instance they got then they should just leave. It's really simple.

People whining over nothing.

[Xirean]

It's not about the difficulty. It never was. It was always about filling duties and it was one of the best things they every put in the game. I most certainly do not want to go back to 30+ minute dps queues during prime time again like it was back in ARR/HW. Getting instances filled as fast as possible is the best thing for everyone.

Just remove the rewards and we are sorted. Once you put rewards in people think they are entitled to decided what they want the roulette to be. If people don't like getting the instance they got then they should just leave. It's really simple.

People whining over nothing.

As much as people want mentors to do things out of the goodness of their hearts, do you really think people would do 2000 ques for nothing?

[Rongway]

As much as people want mentors to do things out of the goodness of their hearts, do you really think people would do 2000 ques for nothing?

The people who are actually doing DR:Mentor to help people will do it even without a reward. I got Astrope years ago and I'll still run it 20 times a day if I don't get thrown in a DR:MSQ duty. The moment you put me in a DR:MSQ duty I'm leaving to do something else.

[Xirean]

The people who are actually doing DR:Mentor to help people will do it even without a reward. I got Astrope years ago and I'll still run it 20 times a day if I don't get thrown in a DR:MSQ duty. The moment you put me in a DR:MSQ duty I'm leaving to do something else.

Good for you, you can't expect many other people to do that though. Which is the entire point. The mentor roulette functions as a successful backfill only because of the amount of people using it. It has very little to do with the quality of the mentor and more to do with "is someone available at all". This is an MMO and players within it are more often then not motivated by rewards. The biggest complaint about Varient/Criterion was the lack of good rewards. Despite the reputation mentors have for leaving when something hard shows up, there's still plenty more who are willing to do that content who will follow. I think it's foolish to expect a significant number of players to be willing to do that without some kind of reward for their efforts. Maybe a few mentors would do a handful of roulette each day, but it's just a big numbers game. The big reward requires 2000 successful completions. Even for a mentor that only wants the mount, by the time they finish their 2k, there will likely be another person signing up to replace them just due to the time it takes to reach that number.

[Avoidy]

OP's issue was way more wholesome than I thought it'd be. I wish there were some kind of EX roulette for people like him. Maybe they could call it "The Hot Zone" or something, and it'd only pop for EX/Savage queues, lol. Similarly, I'd love an "in progress" roulette that's just for people like me who enjoy entering a total shitshow that others have given up on. When I see the roulette pop and it says "43m in progress" I get really really happy and excited, lol.

In my perfect world, they'd nuke the entire mentor system from orbit and then rebuild it without any incentives at all. I write a LOT here about how you sorta need incentives to push enough people to do things, and I do think that's true for like... group content in game where you need a lot of people to be on board or it just won't be viable content for anyone. But when it comes to mentoring people in a game, I think this is an area where the ideal people for this would just want to do it for its own sake. There're so many people who're just butthurt af when they get an actual trial and not a guildhest, because all they want is that ugly ass mount. Their mind's on the reward and not on the purpose for the roulette. Or they just want the crown but they don't want to actually act right when they get it. To hell with 'em. Remove the crown, remove the mount and just put it in the gold saucer or something stupid, rebuild the roulette and call it a Wild Card roulette where literally anything in the game can pop, and then just let it ride. Meanwhile, people who just want to join DF runs of EX content should get a roulette for spicy content, even if the queue is dead as hell.

[Valkyrie-Veil]

better idea,revamp the whole damn MSQ roulette not add or change dungeons...

and let us skip cutscenes,like ....i fully truly dont get the idea behind Non-skippable cutscenes in the first place

The cutscenes in Castrum/Praetorium used to be skippable.

It led to people bullying those who watched the cutscenes or clearing the whole dungeon before people could finish seeing half the cutscenes.

So SE made them unskippable. It’s that simple.

[Shougun]

The cutscenes in Castrum/Praetorium used to be skippable.

It led to people bullying those who watched the cutscenes or clearing the whole dungeon before people could finish seeing half the cutscenes.

So SE made them unskippable. It’s that simple.

I'd ask (never force), but I remember in 2.0, darklight gear (which was end game back then, people called it trash can / bag armor :3), we (3-4 of us) could lock up everyone else all the way to the very end. Not half, but wall to wall pulls- you never left a cutscene XD.

At the end it just said "Directed by Hideo Kojima".