Alliance Raid Roulette

[MikeCake]

They could fix the problem by making all 24 man raids mandatory before you get to the next expansion. But I know they will never do that.

Locking the alliance raid roulette until the ones available on the most recent expansion done is a valid alternate to persuade new players to unlock them, just like how mentor roulette requires the one who want to be mentor to be fully caught up with all the normal content in order to use it.

This would increase the pool of players the queue can pick players from for the higher leveled AR and not just push them all into CT as much.

[Mika_Zahard]

and take 50-60 out of high leveling. Last i checked 50 is not high leveling that's like halfway to our max jobs. Thanks SE

You're overthinking their wording too much. We all know those are CAP dungeons.

[Shistar]

I think it's a good idea to make all ARs mandatory in order to access the roulette. I'd go as far as saying it'd be good if ARs and NRs were obligatory to do after you've finished the entire expansion or maybe an expansion after if you wanna give people some wiggle room, and the reason is super simple: so they can actually grab that lore and do something with it other than seasonal character cameos. At some point they gotta stop pretending Gaia only exists if you did the Eden quests...

[Grimforth]

Also certain content becomes locked if you don't do the AR tied to it. For example you you can't unlock bozja content unless you do all the Ivalice AR's. The issue with that is is that no one does the Ivalice raids because people aren't interested in doing it, or they simply have it unlocked it yet. No joke that I sat in queue for 90 mins to to do the rabanastre raid and it never queued.

[Kurando]

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One issue here is that Free Trial players do not have access to Bozja. You can bet once Shadowbringers is included for them; you will see Ivalice raids much more often in the roulette. Now granted they will still not be as common as Crystal Tower; but it'll still be a more regular occurrence than now as the only time we ever see Ivalice frequently is if it's one of the options during Mogtome farm events.

[Asako]

Add super ilvl restrictions to CT. It's ridiculous, max ilvl should be 80/100/120.

[Raikai]

The problem with that is, CT is mandatory for SHB, so everyone who is done with the story has it unlocked, while they may still have some to none of the others unlocked, it would still pop up the majority of the time as that is what most people have. Having it on a different roulette altogether or part of msq roulette would be the optimal option imho, doubt it would happen tho.

Putting those in the MSQ roulette is the best. But I don't know if their messy code structure allows for 2 different party sizes to be mixed in the same roulette.

Maybe this is a hot take, but I wouldn't mind if the Crystal Tower raids were converted into Light Party duties with Duty Support feature, like how they changed the size of Praetorium and Castrum. I generally don't like what they did by dumbing down ARR dungeons with the streamlining rework, however I feel the MSQ roulette duties had it good, as they actually teach players telegraph awareness now instead of being just a blind faceroll to win, which is exactly the case with the Crystal Tower ARs.

They even have enough NPCs to populate those in a Duty Support.

[Kurando]

Putting those in the MSQ roulette is the best. But I don't know if their messy code structure allows for 2 different party sizes to be mixed in the same roulette.

Considering Labyrinth of the Ancients used to require 2 tanks per party and had to be adjusted to 1 each in order for Alliance Roulette to even be added; I doubt different party sizes could be mixed in a roulette either.

Crystal Tower should be considered for a rework in to Light Party duties though and then it can go in to the MSQ roulette with Praetorium and the others, probably with unskippable cutscenes too and what not so it fits the daily rewards.

[Raikai]

Considering Labyrinth of the Ancients used to require 2 tanks per party and had to be adjusted to 1 each in order for Alliance Roulette to even be added; I doubt different party sizes could be mixed in a roulette either.

Crystal Tower should be considered for a rework in to Light Party duties though and then it can go in to the MSQ roulette with Praetorium and the others, probably with unskippable cutscenes too and what not so it fits the daily rewards.

Yeah, not only the jobs are AWFUL to play at that level range, but the encounters themselves are also pretty meh. Maybe Cerberus and the Eyeball bosses can give you something extra with stuff, but barely. CT raids would benefit greatly from a 4-man edition rework if it's the same quality that Praetorium and Castrum had.

[Shistar]

Putting those in the MSQ roulette is the best. But I don't know if their messy code structure allows for 2 different party sizes to be mixed in the same roulette.

I don't think it'd be an issue. MSQ roulette duties used to be 8-man, now they're 4-man and one of them is a trial while 2 are dungeons. It looks like if there are any limitations, they come from SE not wanting to do too much mixing up unless it's necessary? Though I can imagine CT raids would struggle more to fill since it'd be easier for the game to sort everyone into multiple Porta Decumanas than one Labyrinth of the Ancients. rip sprouts queueing for this stuff.