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[Gordita]

I think once a player has finished an expansion they should be required to do the relevant alliance raids before queueing for the roulette again, like how mentor roulette needs to be unlocked again whenever there are new duties.
For example, if a new player finishes Shadowbringers then the alliance raid roulette should have a lock icon and list The Copied Factory, The Puppet's Bunker, and the Tower at Paradigm's Breach as prerequisites to unlock it.
I know people would complain about not being able to do it for however long it takes them to get the next raids unlocked but I don't think it's a big deal, you won't die if you can't queue for alliance roulette for a couple days or a week.
And maybe move crystal tower to MSQ roulette, but they're probably too short for that, Idk.

Y'know , even though they're alliance raids I can get behind that idea since they're mandatory for MSQ now

[Heroman3003]

Y'know , even though they're alliance raids I can get behind that idea since they're mandatory for MSQ now

Main issue with moving them to MSQ roulette is that they'd almost never pop there since there are already 3 4-person duties in the pool that would pop before MSQ can. I think the only roulette that has duties with different participant counts is guildhests and that's why the very final one is so damn rate to pop.

[Gordita]

Remember how shb had quests tied to relics that had people doing like all the content... If we had that in this expansion those queues would pop more during this drought leading into DT. SE is damned either way, people complain about having to do stuff or not having anything to do.

[LianaThorne]

Was super fun waiting for an hour to unlock STB raids when I did it a couple years back. xD AR queues seem to never change.

[mana-burner]

The only rationale I can think of for including Crystal Tower raids in the Moogle event is to help the influx of Xbox sprouts on Materia and Dynamis progress the MSQ since they won't know how to DC travel, Materia can't DC travel, and free trial players can't form PF groups.
I doubt it's helping on Dynamis since most people there are probably traveling away to grind tomestones but maybe it's working out for Materia?

[Supersnow845]

The only rationale I can think of for including Crystal Tower raids in the Moogle event is to help the influx of Xbox sprouts on Materia and Dynamis progress the MSQ since they won't know how to DC travel, Materia can't DC travel, and free trial players can't form PF groups.
I doubt it's helping on Dynamis since most people there are probably traveling away to grind tomestones but maybe it's working out for Materia?

Even dynamis and materia never needed help popping CT

[DiaDeem]

Friday evening, with two of us as healers.

[Luluya]

Was taking an alt through the Ivalice series the other day to unlock the hairstyle and first raid took about an hour to pop, second 95 minutes, and third took almost 110 minutes to pop if I recall correctly.

It's a shame it's not part of the mogtomes event, hopefully its at least in the second part.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Honestly, what was the actual issue of not including CT as one of the mandatory unlockables anyway? If I remember correctly, what it does to people playing in ShB was they didn’t get to pick two specific dialogue choices that implies our WoL recognize G’raha…

If so… why is that even a problem…? Is this also the same reason they use to cut corner like not giving us trials series in EW & just sell them as MSQ-content? Lol

[fulminating]

Honestly, what was the actual issue of not including CT as one of the mandatory unlockables anyway? If I remember correctly, what it does to people playing in ShB was they didn’t get to pick two specific dialogue choices that implies our WoL recognize G’raha…

If so… why is that even a problem…? Is this also the same reason they use to cut corner like not giving us trials series in EW & just sell them as MSQ-content? Lol

The tower being made of white aetheryte or whatever is set up in ct. There’s also e9, which is a pretty impressive coincidence otherwise. Not really anything else, and they could just as easily have put a quick “for more context why not try the a real reborn alliance raid series” pop up if you’re not flagged as having it done when starting shadowbringers.