Baffling change to EW alliance raids in 7.2 patch notes

[Velthice]

I'd like to hear the reasoning for this change


I assume this is because aglaia is a popular leveling instance for levels 90-100, but... Why do you consider that a problem?

In the notes right before that, it says the bonus experience points for the alliance duty roulette has been increased, but that's only once a day. Why was it decided to take this option away from players? If it's stressing the instance servers in some way, I could understand, but if it was just taken away because players were engaging with the game in a way you didn't like, then I think you should reconsider your decision making process

[Kaurhz]

I'd like to hear the reasoning for this change


I assume this is because aglaia is a popular leveling instance for levels 90-100, but... Why do you consider that a problem?

In the notes right before that, it says the bonus experience points for the alliance duty roulette has been increased, but that's only once a day. Why was it decided to take this option away from players? If it's stressing the instance servers in some way, I could understand, but if it was just taken away because players were engaging with the game in a way you didn't like, then I think you should reconsider your decision making process

This choice is beyond bad.

I know Aglaia etc., isn't exactly the epitome of interesting, but the prospect of incentivizing people doing Alliance Raids by getting EXP is absolutely a good idea.

It's been the ONLY good idea they've had this expansion, so it should be that ALL OTHER alliance raids are made to be more in-line with these 3, as opposed to making these 3 in-line with all others.

It's an MMO, you would think large-scale content and alliance raid esque content to have proper EXP incentives, I would argue more so, or just as much as the 4-man duties.

Absolutely a bad change, not that I expect good decision making in the first place.

[Fatch38]

but you know it's so much fun to force ppl into CT... i mean alliance roulette

[Kandraxx]

"Fun detected. Fun eliminated."

-Bliz....Square Enix

[ovIm]

"Fun detected. Fun eliminated."

-Bliz....Square Enix

"Stop playing the game how you want to, play the game how we want you to."

The reason why they're doing it

Because people directly queued for the level 90 Alliance Raids instead of running Alliance Raid only once per day using the roulette feature, that had to be cut down. Can't stop respecting the players time now, can we? /s

[Mawlzy]

Is the "problem" stemming from the fact the earring we got with pre-order still gives a 30% boost when you synch to level 90 and... er... I actually don't know why that is a problem beyond giving us "too much" XP.

[Mikey_R]

Is the "problem" stemming from the fact the earring we got with pre-order still gives a 30% boost when you synch to level 90 and... er... I actually don't know why that is a problem beyond giving us "too much" XP.

All the EXP earrings have worked that way. The problem is that the EW raids gave more exp, relatively speaking, than the other raids. This change is just bringing them all in line with each other.

[Saraide]

Very weird decision. At the same time they buffed bonus EXP from araid roulette for everything that's not Syrcus Tower or World of Darkness. They dont want people to specifically queue for the EW araids to farm EXP. Only roulette allowed I guess.

[CaptainLagbeard]

The reason why they're doing it

[Stasya]

The reason why they're doing it

NO ONE CARES.

I don't want to help botters unlock msq or just level up in level 50 raids. Or do obnoxiously tuned level 80 raids that require 40+ minutes to complete.