Remove item level sync

[Purrnauskis]

I've count and around 80% of my expert roulette in the past 2 weeks have been Alexandria only, even more so when I que as a tank. There has not been a single new player in any of them.

So what is the point of this absolutely horrible sync? So we don't rush through the dungeon so u can enjoy "le story"? But there is not any relevant story during trash packs or bosses AND the dungeon already forces you to wait cuz of an arbitrary wall for the epic story their intern wrote while taking a dump.

This is horrible design, it takes power away from the player and makes this farm content take even longer. And what is it even doing in EXPERT roulette then if it is supposed to be expert? Imagine if WoW started to item level sync u in m0 or lower m+ keys cuz uhh duhh reasons.

Thanks for listening, fix this horrible mechanic thanks.

[Cinno]

Story stuff like this is always synced. It always will be. This is the last dungeon of the baseline msq, people getting to it late should get to experience it the same way everyone else did. It's no fun to have this big cinematic experience (opinions may vary, but its still the lead up to the end of the story) and have to miss half the mechanics because the overgeared party kills everything in half the time.

Just deal with it until 7.1, then a new dungeon will be added that wont be item level synced, and Alexandria will be rotated out.

[ovIm]

Honestly, I feel like item level sync needs to be stricter in all content, not more lax. This is a video game, the content should be fun to play, not just an obstacle you want to skip through to get what you want to achieve.

[Jeeqbit]

It is fast, at least for me? Just need to do rotation+damage and then it's fast.

Also, I wish the syncs would be tighter as well, especially on older content.

[Supersnow845]

The solution here is to sync the other two, not remove the sync on Alexandria

[Valence]

No thanks.

If I play through the content it's to enjoy and have fun with the content, not to skip it as fast as possible. Put hard syncs on every endgame piece of content please. Especially the story trials before EW, they're an absolute joke right now and that's exactly what you're trying to do with those dungeons.

If you're not enjoying dungeons and roulettes, then don't queue for them. There is other venues to get tomes.

[Chajii]

Alexandria is already one of the faster/easier one if not the fastest/easiest, personally I don't see why the item sync should be lifted.

If let say the dungeon would go faster if all party members weren't first timers, then when players matching with first timers, they might get unnecessary hates only because they haven't been to the dungeon before, which defeats the part of the purpose of Expert Roulette (also roulettes in general).

As others have mentioned, you do have the freedom to not queue for Expert Roulette in order to avoid Alexandria, and spam the dungeons you want to collect tomestones

[Basteala]

But this isn't an item sync problem. This is the "problem" of one MSQ required dungeon vs two optional ones. Some people are leveling alts now, and serious gear chasers have moved onto savage. This is literally the Crystal Tower problem all over again.

It just stings more than usual because Alexandria is the *only* MSQ dungeon in Expert right now, and SE actually did a good job making the optional dungeons more difficult and interesting--certainly compared to the MSQ duties.

No thanks.

If I play through the content it's to enjoy and have fun with the content, not to skip it as fast as possible. Put hard syncs on every endgame piece of content please. Especially the story trials before EW, they're an absolute joke right now and that's exactly what you're trying to do with those dungeons.

If you're not enjoying dungeons and roulettes, then don't queue for them. There is other venues to get tomes.

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To be fair, there is fun to be had pulling legions of mobs doing big damage and bringing out big aoe bombs to take them out. The trouble is that DT's dungeons don't have any trash pulls like that--they've done great with bosses, but there's more mandatory slowpacing with trash pulls than ever. There's no Mt Gulg pulls here

[PercibelTheren]

I think the ilvl sync should be tighter if anything, not more lax. Hell, Alexandria is down within 15 minutes or so with a group where the DPS are pressing their buttons and at least half awake as it is.

I do agree that the wall between trash packs is stupid and needs to go, it just arbitrarily inflates how long the dungeon takes. Alexandria specifically is an offender here because some trash packs come in two waves. Let people pull everything to the boss arena if they dare and are able to manage it. Before I gave up healing, the giant pulls were my favourite thing because they actually forced me to flex my healer muscles a bit, focus and put some effort into keeping the tank alive.

The one MSQ thing I wish they would change is Castrum/Praetorium/Ultima Weapon. I feel like allowing a cutscene skip if everyone in the instance has seen it before would be nice. I barely even do MSQ roulette anymore and I swear I can basically recite Gaius's elevator speech by now.

[Purrnauskis]

Story stuff like this is always synced. It always will be. This is the last dungeon of the baseline msq, people getting to it late should get to experience it the same way everyone else did. It's no fun to have this big cinematic experience (opinions may vary, but its still the lead up to the end of the story) and have to miss half the mechanics because the overgeared party kills everything in half the time.

Just deal with it until 7.1, then a new dungeon will be added that wont be item level synced, and Alexandria will be rotated out.

But like I said, Alexandria doesn't really have anything going on during the trash packs or the bosses. It already forces you to watch the "cinematic experience" during those arbitrary walls when there is 0 trash. And if its called expert roulette then why is Alexandria there?

Honestly, I feel like item level sync needs to be stricter in all content, not more lax. This is a video game, the content should be fun to play, not just an obstacle you want to skip through to get what you want to achieve.

Absolutely not. A big point of a MMO is progression and power is part of that. This is endgame content, it is literally called expert roulette and it is the highest dungeon content there is. What you essentially want to do is strip that progression or feeling of it away and make gear useless and pointless.

And fun is subjective. Feeling like you are progressing and get more powerful may not be fun to you but it is fun to others.