Crystal Tower is complete and utter garbage.

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Originally Posted by EmeraldSerenade

I've had -almost- the exact opposite experience. ( The i90 brats are what we have in common, but it's impossible to escape them.) In my (admittedly, very few) CT runs everyone has tried their best and the designated leaders of each group kept a line of communication, resulting in a boost of group moral and success; although we weren't able to kill Behemoth in designated amount of time. People are still learning, so that's to be expected.

Try not to let a few bad apples spoil the bunch.

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Undoubtly sometimes a lucky random DF run where everyone is happy, listening, enjoying, behaving, may happens. Rare but ye :)

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Originally Posted by Peptaru

What she said, make your own group. What you said sounds like a cop out. Did you catch the rant of the guy saying his nearly all i90 team couldn't kill siren? Gear doesn't make someone good. And back on the point of "alts". . . you were doing CT to gear alts, I said that's useless, you didn't counter that point.

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I'm not getting drops in coil, I already said that. And how is getting kicked out of pugs a cop out?

Are you sure you're getting kicked out of coil pugs because of gear, not attitude?

Eh... I'm on Behemoth too, I PUG a lot and never got kicked while in DL and regular relic. I got my first T4 kill in a group where most had that kind of gear.

But, I don't join any groups asking for the typical tags "gear/exp/vent". Now with average item level, I'll not join any that asks for that either. Funny how that works, on the few that I joined that had such requirements, it didn't succeed. Try one without any requirement... success.

Only problem i find with CT atm is when you queue just as English language you still get mixed in with people who cannot speak or understand a wisp of it, makes for explaining or trying to cooperate very hard.....

My issues with Crystal Tower and Duty Finder:
- People leaving the raid as soon as they get their drop (2 healers dropped in one alliance as we got to the bombo + vassagos, couldn't clear it anymore)
- That ONE DPS that cannot wait even though people asked to wait and decides he can pull all the mobs, leaving half the party without being able to enter the arena
- Those tanks that decide they're gonna main tank everything and constantly fight with other tanks to grab the hate on the boss, while some are supposed to grab adds
- Duty finder. If we could enter with a whole preformed Alliance, this raid would be excellent and goddamn enjoyable, but there you know that on 24 people, there will always be that one douchebag who can ruin the run for everyone.

The thing that disappoints me the most is that the raid could be incredibly great, but SE managed with that one duty finder thing to ruin the fun...

FYI it's VERY possible to queue for CT as a 24-man premade. Use a bit of creativity. ;)

SE should make 2 changes:
-CT loot from the prior bosses will drop after the last boss is down.
-Vote kicks can not be initiated/executed while loot distribution is still going.

I finished it trough Duty Finder on 4th try. To be honest.. my hope in humanity was restored. Ive never seen so much cooperation and positive mood in mmo before.

Crystal Tower was awesome!