Final Fantasy 14 has tons of optional content, including alliance raids, which are grand 24-man dungeons. If you’ve recently caught up to the main story in the game, you may want to work on unlocking these raids.Notably, most of the gear from these raids (except the last Endwalker raid) is pretty outdated, though lots of it does make good glamour. You can also get things like minions, orchestrion rolls, and Triple Triad cards from these raids, too. (Not to mention that the story for each of these raid lines is good!)FFXIV alliance raids and alliance raid roulette, explainedOnce you have two such raids unlocked, you’ll unlock alliance raid roulette in the duty finder, rewarding you with lots of EXP and Poetics for queueing into a randomly selected one of these raids.Unlocking and completing alliance raids is entirely optional, with exception of the A Realm Reborn alliance raid series, The Crystal Tower. While it used to be optional, it became a mandatory part of the story in patch 5.3....