Crystal Tower Horror Stories

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Originally Posted by Yurikitty

Fortunately someone had posted up the CT drinking game rules just prior to this run and most of our group decided to try it out. 6/8 finished this amazing CT run dead drunk. But at least we had good times.

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I got a good chuckle out of this one..

Not my personal horror story, but from someone else I know.. rolls DRG boots or gloves.. and the body drops off last boss. ^^;

My personal horror story.. spamming CT 20 - 30 (maybe more times) the second week to get the tank body.. which I've seen a ton since then.. caster body still remains rare, I've only seen it twice so took it last week when it dropped the second time. ^^

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Originally Posted by necrosis

And no penalty because he was the replacement.

Almost all my horror stories revolve around tanks having a pissing contest on who is going to tank the dragons on the first boss. 99.999% of the time causing the wipe of at least one party if not the entire alliance.

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Amusingly.. a lot of my runs no one wants to tank anything.. which is fine I have no problem tanking anything in CT >.>;

Two days ago, i had a group i was in with 7 FC members that decided it would be a good idea on Behemoth to put on Snowman suits and run around in circles placing every comet on the Iron Giants so we'd get meteor'ed to hell everytime it went off. After 6 wipes they had a good laugh in alliance chat and left. They got replaced and we killed it and moved on. I really hate when stuff like this happens but i guess its the nature of the beast.

ive ran CT about 20 times, trying to get the healer boots. literally every single run ive done has been nothing but fuma and crimson gear, i went 2 weeks without even lotting in ct for the hopes that i might get lucky. nope still havent

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Originally Posted by jars

I didn't witness it first hand, but one alliance came in wearing bathing suits and were dropping comets on people

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this sounds similar to something my fc wants to do, except we would do the run like usual yet naked/in bathing suits and one of our tanks would RP as Odin in the odin armor.

i ran crystal tower like 30 times this week to get the tankhat to drop, it finally dropped and the other tank who was had full i90 gear rolled on it because he didnt think i was a good enough tank, after i ended up MTing Behemoth Bonedragon and Acheron ;;

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Originally Posted by Voulgar

i ran crystal tower like 30 times this week to get the tankhat to drop, it finally dropped and the other tank who was had full i90 gear rolled on it because he didnt think i was a good enough tank, after i ended up MTing Behemoth Bonedragon and Acheron ;;

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Did he say that, or was he rolling on it for the other tanking class?

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Originally Posted by PArcher

Did he say that, or was he rolling on it for the other tanking class?

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its what he said after i said "finally it dropped!" ;; i really wish my needrolls didnt suck so much.

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Originally Posted by alhandra

ive ran CT about 20 times, trying to get the healer boots. literally every single run ive done has been nothing but fuma and crimson gear, i went 2 weeks without even lotting in ct for the hopes that i might get lucky. nope still havent

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This is my second week runing the CT and i still cant get my Monk pants its the last piece im missing and the boss only drops drg pants or the magician hat !

Last night.

Bone Dragon....nobody wants to MT, nobody is tanking skeletons.
King Behemoth...nobody wants to MT, somehow we can manage 6 tanks on 4 towers...right?
Acheron...still.....nobody wants to MT....whats wrong with this picture?

Usually tanks are eager to measure eachother's dick sizes and be MT, provoking mid fight and pissing other tanks off.....but last night they were all too nervous or something?

Also, another run, tank in full allagan...just walked around the whole dungeon. Apparently too entitled to actually participate....what the heck were they even doing there?

Man, I thought I had some bad luck....

Some of these stories are downright ridiculous. I don't understand why anyone would FUBAR an entire run and waste 24 ppls time just for shits/giggles. I don't need the obligatory "people are a$$holes on the internet" speeches, I know they are. The worst I've ever had is JIP people trolling queues for 15-20 mins, or people having troll contests through /a. Which is actually more funny then anything else, lol.

Last week, I really wanted to get the Ballad Boots because it was the only gear-worn piece of mine that was still DL. Ran it once a day throughout the week and never saw it. So on Sunday, I did one last run at the end of the night to at least get something lotted out of the week. Every single drop was Need rolled by someone in my group and I got screwed out of a lot for the week....

Then my first run on Monday, Ballad Boots dropped and I was only BRD in party. :)

Sorry for the inconveniences I have read about in this thread!!

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Originally Posted by odie

nobody wants to MT

Usually tanks are eager to measure eachother's dick sizes and be MT, provoking mid fight and pissing other tanks off.....but last night they were all too nervous or something?

Also, another run, tank in full allagan...just walked around the whole dungeon. Apparently too entitled to actually participate....what the heck were they even doing there?

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That is weird. There always seems to be at least two tanks that argue over who should MT. I usually don't offer to MT for two reasons. 1. Other tanks always want to, so I don't mind letting them. It's better than arguing over who gets to tank. 2. I get occasional lag spikes in CT, and don't want to risk a wipe because of it. Though I always go to a North tower to pick up KB if the MT drops. I really don't mind tanking anything, but I hate fighting over who does what. If no one wants MT, then I'll take it. If no one wants OT, then I'll do that.

Also, I have seen a tank in a lot of allagan, with the rest myth and extreme primal accessories just do nothing. During Bone Dragon, he literally did /sit in the middle. He was the only tank that didn't speak up to call a job for KB. When asked what he was doing, he said "Standing around. Waiting." A couple of back and forth comments, and then he ended up actually tanking giants. Like.. why be there? I really like doing CT, and I do whatever I need to do to help the alliance.

I'll add another one. Our dps was slow taking out adds during Atomos (we had a new BLM and a SMN). The other tank was just staying on Atomos, so I asked him to help, but he refused. I explained that adds weren't going down quick enough, so it'd help to have both tanks on adds. His response was "That's a dps problem, not a tank problem." Yes, dps was slow, but we're here for a win. Not every run is the same. Not every run will have ilvl90 dps. Sometimes you have to adapt. As I said before, I do whatever I can to help the alliance as a whole. This guy would rather wipe, and then blame the dps than to help with adds to make sure we win. Another group wiped before we did (we were going to), and we managed to talk him into helping with adds the next try, and we won with no problems. The rest of the run, he continued to belittle the BLM for being bad (the BLM didn't have the best dps, but it was mainly due to not being overgeared for the content like everyone is used to), and was really quite a jerk.

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Originally Posted by Mordermi

Also, I have seen a tank in a lot of allagan, with the rest myth and extreme primal accessories just do nothing. During Bone Dragon, he literally did /sit in the middle. He was the only tank that didn't speak up to call a job for KB. When asked what he was doing, he said "Standing around. Waiting." A couple of back and forth comments, and then he ended up actually tanking giants. Like.. why be there? I really like doing CT, and I do whatever I need to do to help the alliance.

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they want that god status....lol. I don't care what gear they are wearing. if they show up to do nothing...they should just leave. gear doesn't make you a hero.