Garlaige Citadel gates

[Topdogg]

Since everyone is throwing ideas out to the dev team, I guess I'll throw this out there. Should think of a way to open gates with less required people. These days 4 I think is alot of hassel. Could possibly allow pets to "Stay" on a platform to help with plates or reduce the number of players down to 2. I know theres not a high demand of things to do in garlaige citadel but newer people i'm sure has a hard time finding help with these gates. And like myself, I still have some AF to get and most of the time, my friends are busy doing other things. This isn't one of those "make it easier threads!", It's a good idea I think. What do you think?

[Naturebeckles]

Since everyone is throwing ideas out to the dev team, I guess I'll throw this out there. Should think of a way to open gates with less required people. These days 4 I think is alot of hassel. Could possibly allow pets to "Stay" on a platform to help with plates or reduce the number of players down to 2. I know theres not a high demand of things to do in garlaige citadel but newer people i'm sure has a hard time finding help with these gates. And like myself, I still have some AF to get and most of the time, my friends are busy doing other things. This isn't one of those "make it easier threads!", It's a good idea I think. What do you think?

I think that's a great idea, Topdogg. With some of the newer players I'm with, I show them the "back way" from the past and using the carnation to get teleported over that little cliff where the stairs use to be to get behind the gate 2 area. However, there's at least one quest that I had to help my husband on that required us to actually get through the gates the old way because if he had zoned, he would have had to start the quest all over again with checking the ???'s around the place. So, I definitely agree that the platforms should be taken down to 2 needed.

[Unaisis]

i play the Elegy of Emptiness with my Ocarina on those 4 switches to get past.

[JagerForrester]

This is something I would press the "easy button" to. Those doors are a burden to low and high levels alike, with or without the WotG miniquest.

[Fretion]

Actually, you can get behind both gates relatively easily these days thanks to WotG ... granted, it would be an issue if you don't HAVE WotG, but if you have it, there's a very cheap and easy way to get behind either gate. For the one gate, you just go through Garlaige in the past, before it's all blasted apart and unpassable, use the maw outside. Zone back in, and vioila, you're behind the gate.

For the other one there's a mini-quest involving a Lycopodium NPC that will allow you (once you've completed the quest) up a flight of stairs and AROUND the gate by trading a flower in the present to a glowing spot. http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Lycopodium_(NPC) after using the above method to get to the deeper sections of Garlaige.

[Naturebeckles]

Actually, you can get behind both gates relatively easily these days thanks to WotG ... granted, it would be an issue if you don't HAVE WotG, but if you have it, there's a very cheap and easy way to get behind either gate. For the one gate, you just go through Garlaige in the past, before it's all blasted apart and unpassable, use the maw outside. Zone back in, and vioila, you're behind the gate.

For the other one there's a mini-quest involving a Lycopodium NPC that will allow you (once you've completed the quest) up a flight of stairs and AROUND the gate by trading a flower in the present to a glowing spot. http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Lycopodium_(NPC) after using the above method to get to the deeper sections of Garlaige.

Yes, but as I already stated...


However, there's at least one quest that I had to help my husband on that required us to actually get through the gates the old way because if he had zoned, he would have had to start the quest all over again with checking the ???'s around the place.

[Effilil]

they could just do what they did for the 3 mage door in Horotoro ruins....give us a quest to get a key item that will allow us to open the doors without any help...this would answer the problem of opening the doors for that quest without zoning and give us an option for getting through the doors without having to go to the past for AF coffer hunting