Level 50 alliance raids

[Keichi]

That CT is showing up that much is for multiple reasons.
First, is it the raid that the most players are unlocking. That increase the chance to enter it very much.

Than, are a lot of player with lvl 50+, because they do story or are lvling the other classes. That increase the chance for CT again (a lvl 60 player has a 50% chance, to enter it, a lvl 70 layer a 1/3 chance).
In addition are some player targeting CT, because its the fastes raid.
A run take only around 10-15 min. Maybe 20.
While the later onces can take up to 30 or even 40 min. And that, for practicly the same reward (the Devs know this issue and tried to make up with it, by adding higher reward for longer raids).

And than can it be simply be a run, that it shows up multiple times.
In my case, as a example, had i last month every second day Nier 1 or Nier3 raid. At last did it showed up so much, that it feeled like that.
From my experience, is CT the most common raid. Than Nier, HW, EW and the raids of stormblood are the rarest that Shows up. Esspecial the raid with the math Boss is very rare.

It wouldnt make sense, to remove ct from roulette. Because, that would hurt the lower lvl player and new ones. Because, they would find people much more rarely.

And, for your 7h problem:
How is your Set up of party founder?
Has you only 1 languange activ?
You can increase the speed of finding a party, by adding the other ones to your list to. Even, if you dont actually speak the languange.

I had the problem with long waiting times, where i dont found a party to, for a long time (like, the first few Eden raids, when i came back in shb, because, practicly no one did the first few raids anymore at that time).
The waiting time reduced a lot, when i added the other languange to the criteria. Because, it gives a bigger pool (and its simply common to speak english, no matter what is in the group).
A other point is: at what time did you tried it? Again, from my experience, is it the easiest, to find groups, at the late times (like 8 p.m.), when most people has finished there works (the best time can change, based on, what time zone you are). It feels common to have a long waiting time, if you try it at the warlier hours or early afternoon.

[LilimoLimomo]

The Roulettes' primary purpose isn't to give you a random experience, it's to create a pool of players to help other players get through content they explicitly queued for. So only queue for the Roulette if you're down to do any of the content in that Roulette. On days when you're not down for that, simply do something else instead.

[Yuella]

No one forces you to do alliance roulette everyday. I have not touched alliance roulette in 2 months.

[Asari5]

if the system doesnt succed in luring people into participation then the system fails.
they upped the rewards for the longer raids. great. now people cant complain about reward/time. (they still do though since not everyone knows about the changes)

what about joy though? where is the joy in playing the same boring stuff again and again? it would be better if it wouldnt be as boring as it is and it would be better if there is more variety. the roulette loses participants by mostly giving you crystal tower.

[Supersnow845]

While this is purely anecdotal this lull leading up to DT is probably the only time I’ve seen people actively leaving CT around 50% of the time, one person leaves then suddenly half the raid is gone

People still leave nier or orbonne of course but it’s interesting in my view the amount of people leaving the raids has strongly tipped towards people leaving CT

[Moqi]

I just don't do Alliance Roulette anymore because I'm sick of CT.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I just don't do Alliance Roulette anymore because I'm sick of CT.

What I do typically is to save AR roulette as the last thing I’ll do. Get non-CT raid? Cool, let’s roll with it. Get CT raid? Insta-bail. Who cares about 30m penalty when I have nothing else I want to do that involves entering instances? Lol.

[vetch]

What I do typically is to save AR roulette as the last thing I’ll do. Get non-CT raid? Cool, let’s roll with it. Get CT raid? Insta-bail. Who cares about 30m penalty when I have nothing else I want to do that involves entering instances? Lol.

This is the high-level play.

[TlachtgaSi]

A big issue is that crystal tower teaches bad habits. Outside of a few bosses the CT series is just a murderball where you spam attacks and AOE heals, and there are very few mechanics to actually worry about. The only one that has any real consequence is Phlegethon since it takes just a few people being greedy to wipe the raid. This results in a very rude awakening when you reach Dun Scaith which opens with a boss who has six ways to instantly kill you, and at least 84% of those deaths are entirely your fault (the last 16% is the healer's fault).

I do not fault anyone who bails on CT raids.

[Lucyfurr1988]

Please for the love of Hydaelyn remove level 50 raids from the roulette, I'm so sick of getting these terrible raids over, and over, and over, and OVER. Honestly, this has been a problem for far too long, remake the raids or remove this trash from the roulette.

You could offer me an instant level 90, you could offer me capped Tomes, no amount of rewards would be worth pressing a single button over and over and over on what essentially are target dummies for 30 mins.

Why are the devs so adamant on keeping these trash 10 year old raids in rotation with no changes? Do they even listen to player feed back? I mean genuinely, this has been a recurring issue for English speakers for a long time, the oldest post I found was about 4 years ago, but all they did was remove the IL reduction trick. Wow amazing, thanks so much for that, is what I would be saying if there was actually any noticeable difference in how often I get these brain dead raids. Anyway, my 30m timer for leaving the dungeon is up, perhaps this time I will get placed into a raid where I can actually press more than two buttons (but I doubt it).

2 things.

firstly - its the only mandatory alliance raid, this will always be the issue with alliance roulette. used to be people would skip the lower level ones and only unlock the higher level ones on alts to avoid having to do CT raids. now that you have to do them to progress the MSQ this was the only outcome that would have happened.

second - a true ilvl sync and retuning of older content is something this game sorely needs as a whole. older content teaches bad habits - CT for instance has you stacking 3 stack markers. if you do that in later levels then you're killing the whole party. these fights were tuned for ARR sub 135 ilvl and ilvl sync plus action potencies being higher than they were back then has made them a cakewalk that you can quite literally shut your brain off in.

quiite simply though there is no avoiding CT unless you avoid alliance roulette altogether.