Moving optional items to Armoire and making alliance raid roulettes level-appropriate is huge. The audience had such a positive reaction here that Yoshi-P couldn't help but comment how much the item improvements get the most reaction lol.
I am pretty excited about the update to alliance raid queue requirements.
That being said, I am wondering how it will turn out in practice. It should significantly increase the odds of getting a non-CT instance, but at the same time Crystal Tower is the most universally "unlocked" raid series (being the only one that is MSQ required) so I have a feeling you are still going to be likelier to get CT compared to other specific possibilities, even if it's less likely to get CT overall.
What I am worried about happening next, though, would be people simply choosing to not unlock later raid series. You could set up a system like expert roulette that requires you to have available duties unlocked, but you'd probably have to set it based on MSQ progress and not level, since a lot of players (particularly those on Road to 80 worlds) will very quickly overlevel the MSQ.
Thanks for this! It's always great to be able to go back and review the slides!
If anyone knows a better image host than imgur for displaying a large album, please let me know. That site has really gone downhill.
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