Duty Roulette is making me a better playerFollow

Agreed, I've run Copperbell Hard and Haukke Manor Hard for my first try via DR, and it feels empowering. Some things I'd still rather have a FC group for, but I'm a little more adventurous now.

I've done tons of guildhests now as a result. Not even because I wanted a bonus but that it's such a convenient way to run them.

So far using Duty roulette, I have found people to generally be very nice, even a Cm which was a lolcakes (we wiped twice at the second boss) awful run , didn't collapse into the usual finger pointing, nasty comments, we just got on with it.

Perhaps I'm just being lucky, but maybe the combination of not running the same boring dungeon over and over, less waiting between runs, and the lure of the gilded magitek walker are improving peoples attitude and behaviour.

I leveled PLD first, and I've played a tank in MMOs for a long time, so I've always been sort of fearless. I find myself feeling out the healer for the first 1/4 of the dungeon, and then going as hard as I can after that. It's much easier to do this in the low level duty roulette because it feels like you have a much larger margin of error.

It's because Crystal Tower, for better or worse, is going to be the source of most of people's Myth tomes (unless they get super lucky for the week) both because of how easy it is to get in to and because of the other need of trying to get the weekly ilvl 80 gear allotment. I know people also view it as the most effective way to get tomes if the alliance is efficient enough as well, but a lot of that will depend on people's tolerance levels. For example, if people are throwing fits about where the bone dragon is tanked while completely ignoring where the adds are killed on the first boss, then that's a very bad portent.

I filtered out the alliance chat as CT is pretty straight forward. It became a much nicer experience after that.

Agreed. For those who enjoy leveling up secondary classes, the Roulette has brought new life to those old dungeons (many of which I had only ever one once before.)

Also, helping new players is fun. But what is really interesting is when a new player, on their very first class, is able to teach me the mechanics because they just ran the dungeon a minute ago. Sweet. Learning new things all the time.

Used the duty finder to get AK last night and tanked it for the first time. Also tanked ifrit and garuda hm for the first time (and chimera and hydra) trying to get that relic. It is fun explaining to the new folks how the mechanics work, and then playing them from an entirely different perspective. Tank is damn challenging on Garuda HM, and I dont know how many times the party wiped on that AK run until we finally beat it. As we walked into the final boss room I realized that all three of the other folks had just got the mapping achievement for AK. Not bad.

And I love queueing up my scholar for low level duty roulette. Healing low level stuff on scholar works a little like this.
1. Cast Eos.
2. DPS and DOT.
3. Cast Psysick on the tank on bosses.

The faerie does the work =D I heard someone say to macro Embrace into every one of your DPS skills so Eos is always doing it and then you never have to heal... I may try that.