Crystal Tower Controversy: Should Syrcus and Labyrinth be synced to minimum iLv?

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Originally Posted by JadeCurtiss

If they did that no one would clear them in roulette because of the old encounter design. You think people know how to fight Behemoth for real? Or Glaslya? There can still be wipes to Angra Mainyu even though its mechanics are more in line with what we have today. No, what would happen is people would get Labyrinth in roulette, wipe to Bone Dragon 3 times then people would start leaving. Is it boring now? Yeah. But at the end of the day, the majority of people just want their alliance exp and tomes without having to think too hard. That's why people used the gear swap exploit to get Crystal Tower when you could still do that.

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I don't think that would be the case. I joined a MINE run of LotA shortly before DT launch and the difficulty felt somewhat on par with Dun Scaith/Orbonne Monastery. I doubt we would see any more people ditch the raids than already do.

I do think though, rather than changing CT raids down to minimum ilvl or the maximum ilvl for when the raid was currently, they should be synced down to the middle between those two(so for instance, LotA would sync down to ilvl 70). I'm also not entirely against changing them into the 8-man form from the new mobile version and moving them into MSQ Roulette(along with ARF which really feels like belongs in there.)

Make the bosses do mechanics earlier

Min ilvl might be a touch too far but they definitely need to be synced lower.

The dev team can't expect people to regularly do stuff like Chaotic when the entire game trains people to view 24 man content as being so easy the rewards might as well be free.

If I can eat 4-8 aoes as a healer and have no problems staying alive then they've failed to adequately balance the content and that's true for the bulk of Alliance encounters.

I am sure something could be done with it. But after having bitched about for sometime i just don't care anymore. I just sleep through it.

tbh even if you did min ilvl, lvl 50 on some jobs is so jank that, even mildly interested in seeing the mechanics, i would still find the whole thing a bore.

The reason why people keep getting crystal Tower so much. Is because so many new players have a hard time finding groups to unlocks the other alliance raids due o them being so old. And duty roulette will only throw you into AR you have unlocked and everyone basically has to have CT unlocked to progress the story.

And while I'm not new, I haven't been able to do a single AR beyond ARR, because no one does older AR anymore..

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Originally Posted by Grimforth

The reason why people keep getting crystal Tower so much. Is because so many new players have a hard time finding groups to unlocks the other alliance raids due o them being so old. And duty roulette will only throw you into AR you have unlocked and everyone basically has to have CT unlocked to progress the story.

And while I'm not new, I haven't been able to do a single AR beyond ARR, because no one does older AR anymore..

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Unironically you shouldn’t have access to the roulette if you haven’t unlocked the other ones

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Unironically you shouldn’t have access to the roulette if you haven’t unlocked the other ones

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Yeah this game is very gatekeepy for the wrong reasons.

They honestly shouldn't have made the other AR's optional. And it's impossible to do them in Duty roulette because a lot if players aren't aware of them due to them again, being optional. If you queue up for a HW AR and up, you'll just be in queue forever.

It's so stupid.