10 thoughts on “Why Alliance Roulette ALWAYS lands you in Crystal Tower!”

1. A particular mistake I have been made aware of in this video that I feel like I should clarify, is that it appears that all roulettes, including Alliance Raids, technically do have proportional EXP based on the time it takes. However, based on the information I have, the… Proportional amount isn't great enough to compensate, and also includes no additional reward for players that don't benefit from the EXP reward.

   For example, even if the Nier Raids gave twice the reward to Crystal Tower, that would still make Crystal Tower more time efficient (for those that care about this), and the reward for the Nier Raids would need to be even greater to compensate. In fact, even if Nier Raids took exactly twice the time Crystal Tower takes on average, then there is probably a case to be made that the Nier Raids need to give slightly more proportionally to compensate for the additional time investment. And how much is enough and how much is reasonable is a very difficult question.😅

   And more importantly, max level players can view Crystal Tower Raids as equal to Nier Raids since the reward is the same – except of course the gear drops if you want those. But the daily reward is really the big one here, so a big one to make max level players more motivated to do higher level options in the daily roulette, would be to also increase the tomestone rewards (for example).

   Anyway, my point is that I made an error in making the assumption that the Alliance Raid Roulette does not have variable EXP rewards. It is however unfortunate that the reward difference isn't big enough!

2. There really is simple solution. Have all roullette Ilvl requirements be set to the min ilvl of highest level completed duty that the job you are queuing with has access to. For example, if you are level 69, the ilvl requirement is the min ilvl of Weeping City if you've done that but haven't completed Dun Scaith yet.

   Also, the actual problem with the current system as not so much with doing CT over and over, as much as that bad, but when players just want to queue for one of the later alliance raids. It just takes a single under 60 player, let alone ilvl manipulator, to reset you to a near empty queue and note only does it take forever sometimes, but because they come up so rarely, wipes are far more likely too as there is just less experience in the raids overall.

3. There needs to be an option in the roulette settings called „Weekly Challenges“ which tracks the duties you completed though put the weeks and ensures you get something unique each time. There can be a disclaimer which states that pre formed parties my cause this setting be be overridden or extend queue times.

4. They need to make the expansion alliance raids more appealing or tie it to main story cuz its a shame such good content is overlooked. Alot of people skip alliance raids because they think the rewards aren't worth it and not important to the story.

5. i'm the reason 4, dont thank me, fastests alliance raid

6. Biggest issue is there are plenty of players who dont even have other raids unlocked, because they require doing quest chains that are out of the way, and players might not even see. I only realized how many raids/trials I didn't have when I was trying to Wondrous Tails and it required me to do things from expansions I already cleared, that had long quest chains to unlock. This is the downside of locking literally everything behind a quest in an MMO.

7. I tend to do downgearing but not cause i want to get crystal tower raids, more that i do not want to do Neir for personal and objective reasons. I'm not a fan of Nier nor the story and the fans/old friends who just went 200% cracked up mode on 'lore' and 'speculation' of direction plus the 'RP' angles made me just despise it. Compounded that i think nier raid fights are just not enjoyable to fight.

   My personal wishlist is they nerf the HP of the 80 alliance series immensely. I've been getting Eurphosyne and Agalia fights significantly faster than the constant neir raids i get constantly, not to mention i've been able to complete the Ivalice raids fast enough that by the time im on the last boss of the third neir raid i've already finished Orbonne and qued up for another roulette. Another thing they could incentivize for the raids is to include craftable glamour weapons from each respective entry utilizing the reagent that drops at the end of each or add a new drop. Giving some sort of money chaser for people and prized item they could get no one else can. Or something rewarding enough.

   There is also a 5th reason the crystal tower raid is constantly picked and it stems from the earlier unlocking of Bozja. Those who are looking to get Shadowbringer relics more than one have a quest called Change of Arms which requires 15 Loathsome memories of the dying which has two sources: The slowest being Critical Engagements in the southern front or the consistent and fastest being Crystal Tower Raids.
   While there is a quest after this requiring you to do both Void Ark series and Ivalice Series for 15 each items, that is a one time quest that no longer is used when you complete it unlike the CT required one. So people will specifically que for the fastest of the three being Syrcus Tower.

8. Sorry ya'll! I was spamming Syrcus to get my Loathsome Memories of the Dying for Bozjan relics! 😅

9. Normal raids have the same issue I think. It's only ever Alex raids and those who are trying to complete Eden ones are doomed to PF or have to ask people to help them clear it unsynced.

10. Didnt they fix the "downgearing" thing?

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