Thread: Baffling change to EW alliance raids in 7.2 patch notes

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

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

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The reason why they're doing it

Originally Posted by 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

It's probably because people who were doing it for the first time or were new to the game had issues finding a group via Matchmaking, but perhaps it's time to have another look at the Trust and improve it further. Make it actually a viable and comparable alternative.

Thank god I no longer have to deal with this nonsense. For me at least, dungeon spam is just a miserable experience. Not one single one of them is fun to do, especially not when you have to level several jobs.

There are two types of duties:

"Leveling" duties, which include any duties in the following level ranges: 1-49, 51-59, 61-69, 71-79, 81-89, 91-99

"Max Level" duties aka "High-level", which include any duties at these levels: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100

Leveling duties have always been designed to give lots of experience points, while max level ones don't give any until they are modified to do so after the level cap increase. The max level ones usually are not scaled to give much experience.

So, from their perspective, it's an oversight. However, in practice, it doesn't matter and nobody really cares about the distinction. So it's odd that they have seen that as a priority over almost any other pressing issue in the game.