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Originally Posted by Ath192

Thats fine, there isn't anything wrong with this. If there are people who feel this way then feedback readers need to know it. I still feel the game is too easy for its own good but I wanted to know if we could at least find some people who felt the need to look up guides and there are.

It would've been worse if nobody came forward TBH, because then it would be extremely obvious noone feels a challenge. Personally I plan on playing this game a lot less next expansion with the hopes of one day being able to let go of my house. I no longer feel the spark or excitement I once had for running alliance raids like during SB or HW and feeling like a wipe was a real possibility. So while I like the game, I like it a lot less, despite feeling it was going to get better. Now it feels like it isn't, at least for people who enjoy risk like me.

If I know the outcome is always going to be winning then the food doesn't taste as good in my own world view. The only time Ive actually wiped at an alliance raid recently is from the Aglaia oneshot, but it doesn't bring the thrill that other raids did where wipes were due to a combination of mechanics and not a gacha insta wipe.

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Preface: I am about as casual as casual comes in this game.

Even so I always look up a guide before I do anything that involves other players. My personal ethics require me to perform to the best of my ability so that I avoid harming other players experience. This is why I also don't do much harder content. ARR extremes are right on the edge of my physical ability to do and not all that much fun given the toll it takes on me physically.

To be fair I'm probably in the ultra minority that looks up content before diving first into it. I actually had somebody 'confront' me in a raid once (P2N) when I admitted "First time, but looked at a guide. Hope to not be a burden" with "Pfft, real gamers dive in head first blind". I just bit my tongue and scraped him off the floor every so often. Don't mind others going blind as I said before, but me, I rather not be a burden to the other healer in the group scraping my RoeButt off the floor.

I'd just like some middle ground somehow so the story is somewhat challenging for gimps like myself but there's some higher tier content for Ath192 and others to enjoy still but it seems like there's just a unsolvable trap that trying to cater to both groups just leaves one group completely unsatisfied.

And maybe it's a Crystal thing but I've had wipes in LotA

No tank picking up the Iron Giant and it actually cleaving down all the meteors? Check. Mechanics failure of not keeping the IG away (or at least facing away) from a meteor. Also wipes because all 4 people with meteor markers stacked on each other and then the tank had the boss to close to that stack of meteors. Wipe city.
People ignoring the Allagan Napalms and causing a wipe, yup. Mechanic failure because DPS/Healers (at least my alliance was killing 'em) didn't switch to the Napalms.
And the usual greeding on the last boss.

Sorry for rambling, but I really hope the devs can figure out something to keep both parties happy but I just don't know how it can be done.

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Originally Posted by ChrysOCE

It will only be (somewhat) difficult in the first week or two. If they would reduce the ilvl cap, you would see more damage going out and more mechanics happening (see The Final Day). You can argue that Aglaia and Euphro are not hard, sure. But, anyone doing these raids today are not experiencing it the same as when they first released. Obviously, some of that is more people used to the mechanics. But a lot of it is just higher gear increasing your DPS and reducing the amount of damage you take. They don't need to make it min ilvl, just have it a tighter ilvl sync. A lot of content would be more challenging, if our gear didn't outstrip the content so much, so quickly.

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That makes sense, and sounds like an easy fix. Just lower the ilevel range for these raids which should make them harder.

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Just lower the ilevel range for these raids which should make them harder.

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CT is story content, as it is now a mandatory part of the MSQ. Making it "harder" is at cross purposes to the intent of that instance. Dont forget its also level 50 tuned which means people dont have their full toolkit, so that has to be taken into account.

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I don’t think “returning the content to the level it was actually designed at” counts as making it harder in a functional sense

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Balancing it is the hard part. I agree on ilevel creep, but that has to be carefully tuned.

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CT is barely even a raid, it’s a set of striking dummies because we’ve ilvl inflated it to hell and back

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CT still has instakill mechanics, so disagree there.

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

CT is story content, as it is now a mandatory part of the MSQ. Making it "harder" is at cross purposes to the intent of that instance. Dont forget its also level 50 tuned which means people dont have their full toolkit, so that has to be taken into account.

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I don’t think “returning the content to the level it was actually designed at” counts as making it harder in a functional sense

CT is barely even a raid, it’s a set of striking dummies because we’ve ilvl inflated it to hell and back

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

I don’t think “returning the content to the level it was actually designed at” counts as making it harder in a functional sense

CT is barely even a raid, it’s a set of striking dummies because we’ve ilvl inflated it to hell and back

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Because it's ARR content. ARR content shouldn't be hard, it's years and years old and is mandatory. The goal is to get players to stick around, not force them out.

The game starts picking up in difficulty in Stormblood, with Shadowbringers dungeons being much harder than what came before them while leveling. Endwalker dungeons feels like they're easier than Shadowbringers stuff as players are more skilled by then and have their kits almost or fully unlocked at that point.

We also don't need to create even more reasons to scare players away from tanking/healing as those are the roles that require the player to be proficient while DPS jobs can afford to make a lot more mistakes while leveling.

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Originally Posted by Tanis_Ebonhart

Because it's ARR content. ARR content shouldn't be hard, it's years and years old and is mandatory. The goal is to get players to stick around, not force them out.

The game starts picking up in difficulty in Stormblood, with Shadowbringers dungeons being much harder than what came before them while leveling. Endwalker dungeons feels like they're easier than Shadowbringers stuff as players are more skilled by then and have their kits almost or fully unlocked at that point.

We also don't need to create even more reasons to scare players away from tanking/healing as those are the roles that require the player to be proficient while DPS jobs can afford to make a lot more mistakes while leveling.

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The implication that CT at any level of scaling is hard is the problem

CT was never hard even when it was properly scaled in ARR, however there is a difference between “there are actually mechanics” and “12 striking dummies in a row”, nobody should be scared off by the difficulty of CT being properly scaled

And since when has healing and tanking in casual level 50 required more than 2 brain cells

I agree... I spent many weeks fine tuning my rotation and I was getting good at it... And then they deleted that rotation in the next expansion... the game has gotten too easy.
And I don't mean that as in "end game, having to memorize all sequences" hard... because that is the annoying type of "hard".
I mean more in the sense that you need to know your spells & skills and learn how to combine them in the best order to get the best outcome... Your mindpower and will is what made you pro at some point... now its like you can no longer become pro... I miss that feeling of being better and the pride of having earned that feeling.

Lets be honest... Dumb people will always find the game hard even when its easy...
But they shouldn't fixate the game on dumb people, they should aim it towards adults who got money to spend and then make sure they have an easy time and a solid reason to spend money on the game. THAT is where the market is.

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And since when has healing and tanking in casual level 50 required more than 2 brain cells

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Veteran vs new player, Super. Big difference.

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

Veteran vs new player, Super. Big difference.

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As a new player on healer you couldn’t mess up an alliance raid if you tried because someone is always keeping 100% uptime on medica 2 for literally zero reason

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

As a new player on healer you couldn’t mess up an alliance raid if you tried because someone is always keeping 100% uptime on medica 2 for literally zero reason

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Probably someone who is being extra-attentive because they are trying not to mess up at healing the alliance raid.

Also, in my experience, it's only high-level players who want you to use the spell as little as possible. More casual players want you to keep it up full time, and a fair few of them need it.

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Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur

The Diabolos fight is still the most chaotic normal alliance raid fight that we've gotten imo. At least 2nd phase where there's so much crap to watch out for and anyone hitting those dark spheres will most likely bounce to a player affecting them and create a string of oopsy daisies.

Its awesome

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Agreed. And yet... people are saying that is not "midcore". Apparently TA and DA are now "hardcore" fights.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

As a new player on healer you couldn’t mess up an alliance raid if you tried because someone is always keeping 100% uptime on medica 2 for literally zero reason

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I use medica 2 in alliance raids exactly because of new or casual players. Context please. I’d rather have a buffer to someone not dying and losing their dps IF I notice a few players getting hit by mechanics. So there isn’t “no reason” if there are new players getting hit.

Now if everyone is a player who has run the raid 1000 times it’s not necessary, but no need to sound so elitist and judgmental. Different pug groups call for different approaches.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

The implication that CT at any level of scaling is hard is the problem

CT was never hard even when it was properly scaled in ARR, however there is a difference between “there are actually mechanics” and “12 striking dummies in a row”, nobody should be scared off by the difficulty of CT being properly scaled

And since when has healing and tanking in casual level 50 required more than 2 brain cells

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And yet people die in arr raids all the time to mechanics they don’t know. I see this all the time. Some of your posts are just so self absorbed and only relevant to jaded players who’ve run the content a million times.

I’m totally happy to be called a jaded veteran if we are discussing dying constantly in ARR alliance raids requiring high uptime of medica 2 being seen as a good thing that should be encouraged

ARR alliance raids have 3 instakill mechanics (I’m not counting Cerberus fail condition) and all give you plenty of time and context clues to resolve them (plus let’s not even mention the fact that if you can’t figure out why everyone else is standing behind the ice that’s kinda on you), MMO’s are about trial and failure and improvement, asking them to not sync CT to its PROPER level because it may wall new players is just a level of babying that is basically the foundation for what’s wrong with the design philosophy behind this game

It’s okay to die to a mechanic you don’t know, nobody minds safety heals (that does not mean casting medica 2 when medica 2 has 12 seconds left on its HOT) people should be encouraged to die and learn mechanics organically, not take away the ability to die to a mechanic, it’s like you don’t even want to play an MMO

Again if this makes me a self absorbed jaded veteran I’ll take that title, I’ve died in mechanics on normal raids millions of times, I learn from it, I don’t get embarrassed or defensive, even when a more competent person drags me through my first clear of the nier raids, isn’t that the attitude we should be encouraging, die and learn from your mistakes, not make it impossible to die

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

I’m totally happy to be called a jaded veteran if we are discussing dying constantly in ARR alliance raids requiring high uptime of medica 2 being seen as a good thing that should be encouraged

ARR alliance raids have 3 instakill mechanics (I’m not counting Cerberus fail condition) and all give you plenty of time and context clues to resolve them (plus let’s not even mention the fact that if you can’t figure out why everyone else is standing behind the ice that’s kinda on you), MMO’s are about trial and failure and improvement, asking them to not sync CT to its PROPER level because it may wall new players is just a level of babying that is basically the foundation for what’s wrong with the design philosophy behind this game

It’s okay to die to a mechanic you don’t know, nobody minds safety heals (that does not mean casting medica 2 when medica 2 has 12 seconds left on its HOT) people should be encouraged to die and learn mechanics organically, not take away the ability to die to a mechanic, it’s like you don’t even want to play an MMO

Again if this makes me a self absorbed jaded veteran I’ll take that title, I’ve died in mechanics on normal raids millions of times, I learn from it, I don’t get embarrassed or defensive, even when a more competent person drags me through my first clear of the nier raids, isn’t that the attitude we should be encouraging, die and learn from your mistakes, not make it impossible to die

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Well there is the difference. I view my job as a healer to prevent death where I am able. They don’t need to die constantly to learn from being hit. It’s more taxing on the raid to rez constantly over casting a gcd heal.

You sound like a terrible healer who lords healing over new players so they die.

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I’m totally happy to be called a jaded veteran if we are discussing dying constantly in ARR alliance raids requiring high uptime of medica 2 being seen as a good thing that should be encouraged

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More heals keeping people topped up is...a bad thing?

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, MMO’s are about trial and failure and improvement, asking them to not sync CT to its PROPER level because it may wall new players is just a level of babying that is basically the foundation for what’s wrong with the design philosophy behind this game

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So youd rather see new players hit a brick wall and quit?

i mean we've already heard another player here say they dont give a toss , if its too hard for them too bad so sad theres the door? Are you trying to INCREASE the churn rate?

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

More heals keeping people topped up is...a bad thing?



So youd rather see new players hit a brick wall and quit?

i mean we've already heard another player here say they dont give a toss , if its too hard for them too bad so sad theres the door? Are you trying to INCREASE the churn rate?

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You dying in CT is not going to wall anyone because it’s an alliance raid, that’s the entire point; but yes (and quote me on this till the end of time I know you of all people will), if you are getting hard walled by the difficulty of CT in its current form you shouldn’t be allowed to progress, games should expect a level of sloping competency, hell even single player games require it, why is 14 the only game that people who don’t want to interact with the systems should be given a free pass, you certainly aren’t clearing FFVI having terra stand there and spam cure all day

I for one am not the producer so I don’t make money off this game, so yes in my opinion having 500k people who don’t have a heart attack at non nerfed CT is better than 1.3 million who can’t handle the original CT AS IT WAS DESIGNED, call me a gatekeeper I’ve really stopped caring

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Originally Posted by ZephyrMenodora

Well there is the difference. I view my job as a healer to prevent death where I am able. They don’t need to die constantly to learn from being hit. It’s more taxing on the raid to rez constantly over casting a gcd heal.

You sound like a terrible healer who lords healing over new players so they die.

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No I’m someone who acknowledges that death in this game isn’t a bad thing and we can learn from it, I won’t stop casting medica 2 to let someone die, I just acknowledge that if you barely do any damage because you are sitting there spamming medica 2 you are a net drain on the raid

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

I would definitely expect something like Hector's Voidcast guide to get multiple repeat views as groups are trying to figure out what to do.

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Also let’s add that PF often refers to Hector’s strats. Personally I only look at his guides because of that. I always go blind first as it’s much more interesting.

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if you are getting hard walled by the difficulty of CT in its current form you shouldn’t be allowed to progress,

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You and 23 others who determine if you get past it or not. Or had you forgotten that small fact? I am not saying there should not be a challenge, I am saying that you MUST BALANCE THIS with the fact CT isnt extreme, isnt savage, isnt ultimate, is story content that is and should be able to be cleared by players with varying skill levels.

CT is now mandatory for MSQ and should be treated as such. You just want to make it "harder" for its own sake and have not taken any time to consider other factors that also come into game and encounter design.

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you certainly aren’t clearing FFVI having terra stand there and spam cure all day

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FF 16 is single player , is not pay to play, is not an MMO. Apples and oranges.

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call me a gatekeeper I’ve really stopped caring

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Yes. You are.

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I just acknowledge that if you barely do any damage because you are sitting there spamming medica 2 you are a net drain on the raid

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A healer, heals, and does dps in downtime. A healers primary role is to heal, better more medica 2 than more resurrect. I see zero issue with a healer making sure their entire group stays up for the encounter.

So they overheal. Who cares? Isnt a player with full health better than one at 10%? Id say it is.

So Supersnow, Ill ask the obvious question "make it harder"...why? To what end?

To achieve what? To accomplish what? To "weed out the unworthy"? "Kick out the bads??"

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What is the exact reason you want this change? What is the purpose and what is the expected result you want?

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

ARR alliance raids have 3 instakill mechanics (I’m not counting Cerberus fail condition) and all give you plenty of time and context clues to resolve them

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There are at least three in the Angra Mainyu fight alone, some of which occur multiple times in the single fight (coloured floor alternation, look away from Mortal Gaze, cure doom from failing Mortal Gaze, Lv150 Death). Not necessarily instant-instant but guaranteed sudden death if the player doesn't realise and doesn't take the correct steps to resolve them.

Plus Ancient Flare, Curtain Call, Behemoth meteors, dragonflies, stepping in Cerberus's goo without shrinking first, running away with the scary black circle marker in Xande's fight...

Several of those either happen quickly or do not have an intuitive solution, or at least one that can be worked out in the time you have before it splatters you.

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

You and 23 others who determine if you get past it or not. Or had you forgotten that small fact? I am not saying there should not be a challenge, I am saying that you MUST BALANCE THIS with the fact CT isnt extreme, isnt savage, isnt ultimate, is story content that is and should be able to be cleared by players with varying skill levels.

CT is now mandatory for MSQ and should be treated as such. You just want to make it "harder" for its own sake and have not taken any time to consider other factors that also come into game and encounter design.



FF 16 is single player , is not pay to play, is not an MMO. Apples and oranges.



A healer, heals, and does dps in downtime. A healers primary role is to heal, better more medica 2 than more resurrect. I see zero issue with a healer making sure their entire group stays up for the encounter.

So they overheal. Isnt a player with full health better than one at 10%?

So Supersnow, Ill ask the obvious question "make it harder"...why? To what end?

To achieve what? To accomplish what? To "weed out the unworthy"? "Kick out the bads??"

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What is the exact reason you want this change? What is the purpose and what is the expected result you want?

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No I want the encounter to exist in the form it was designed in, original CT was not hard and it should be preserved in the form that it was originally in, you will never disband on original CT, nobody is going to stop anyone from progressing, you are never going to be hard walled by CT, leaving it in this nerfed to hell state for a weird sense of accessibility Just hurts new players if anything because there is no scale of difficulty in this game

Yes 6 is a single player game, and it expects competency out of you, why does 14 not; what is the difference; is it that in 6 if you refuse to engage with the games systems there isn’t 23 other faceless people to carry you through the content; you paid for your copy of 6, it expects competency out of you, you paid for your access to 14 it expects competency out of you

And like I said CT should exist in the form IT WAS DESIGNED IN, leaving it turbo nerfed leaves a crap first experience for new people and a boring as hell experience on replays, do you really think first time players actually enjoy CT

Let's face it, all kinds of players play this game with varying skill levels. A smart developer will design content to capture the most players. I am not opposed to the making of harder content for those that want to experience it, what I am opposed to is changing content that most people can do to satisify those who want harder content. Personally I think most who say they want harder content really just want to gate others out of it. All the years I have been playing MMOs I have seen these arguments on various forums and it's always the same arguments. Life moves on and this game will not be the focus of the folks who want harder content in a year, some new shiny game will come out that will capture their attention. Gateing players that some deem bad is never a good thing. I am glad the devs don't pay attention to the NA forums much. Sad for us, better for them.

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

You and 23 others who determine if you get past it or not. Or had you forgotten that small fact? I am not saying there should not be a challenge, I am saying that you MUST BALANCE THIS with the fact CT isnt extreme, isnt savage, isnt ultimate, is story content that is and should be able to be cleared by players with varying skill levels.

CT is now mandatory for MSQ and should be treated as such. You just want to make it "harder" for its own sake and have not taken any time to consider other factors that also come into game and encounter design.


FF 16 is single player , is not pay to play, is not an MMO. Apples and oranges.



Yes. You are.



A healer, heals, and does dps in downtime. A healers primary role is to heal, better more medica 2 than more resurrect. I see zero issue with a healer making sure their entire group stays up for the encounter.

So they overheal. Who cares? Isnt a player with full health better than one at 10%? Id say it is.

So Supersnow, Ill ask the obvious question "make it harder"...why? To what end?

To achieve what? To accomplish what? To "weed out the unworthy"? "Kick out the bads??"

In short:

What is the exact reason you want this change? What is the purpose and what is the expected result you want?

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The original crystal tower was never hard. Asking for its original difficulty isn't asking for the game to become an extreme dark souls game and not going to wall people off from completing it. I don't know how asking for its original difficulty and wanting to see all the mechanics again equates to wanting a dark souls game or how it will wall people off from completion when all the mechanics that get skipped were never difficult on release in the first place.

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No I want the encounter to exist in the form it was designed in

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Why? You havent answered this. You want this done for what reason. With what rationale?

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And like I said CT should exist in the form IT WAS DESIGNED IN

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Why? Ill keep asking.You go on and on..and wont say what your reasoning is. What would this accomplish? Why do you want it reverted to an earlier form???

What exactly will this achieve? What purpose will it serve?

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Originally Posted by Nebelheim

The original crystal tower was never hard. Asking for its original difficulty isn't asking for the game to become an extreme dark souls game and not going to wall people off from completing it. I don't know how asking for its original difficulty equates to wanting a dark souls game.

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It was changed for a reason, why do you suppose it got changed? This is a self answering question.

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Originally Posted by Snorky

It was changed for a reason, why do you suppose it got changed? This is a self answering question.

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It was never difficult there was no need to change or nerf crystal tower. It's sad that even now with how easy crystal tower has become even experienced people cause wipes in it because people would rather try to dps down things to try to skip mechanics rather then actually do things.

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Originally Posted by Nebelheim

It was never diffiicult there was no need to change or nerf crystal tower.

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That my friend is an opinion. The developers deemed it necessary so what makes you think they don't know their own game? Why do you want it changed back?

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t. Personally I think most who say they want harder content really just want to gate others out of it

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I remember the day LFR came out for WOW. the kicking and screaming from "leet raiders" who wanted this content kept for themselves would have deafened a 747 at max power.

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Why do you want it changed back?

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Snorky? Notice that not one of them has actually answered this. Odd..innit?

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Like i keep saying it was never difficult to complete and its original difficulty wasn't that much harder then it currently is so why change it to become easier when it was always easy.

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Like I keep asking...to achieve what? To accomplish what?

The one thing is with CT is that its the item lvl. If they fixed that it would be an issue. If memory serve me correctly when they added the iron works at that time it made trivial.

Or they can just get rid of it and just make it a 4 man or something

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Originally Posted by Snorky

That my friend is an opinion. The developers deemed it necessary so what makes you think they don't know their own game? Why do you want it changed back?

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Like i keep saying it was never difficult to complete and its original difficulty wasn't that much harder then it currently is so why change it to become easier when it was always easy.

Plus they never “changed” it, ilvl creep ruined it, it’s the same thing as people now complaining that it ruins endsinger, there was no active change to the content itself

And in answer to your question, to give the sprouts an authentic experience of an actual raid, CT gives a terrible first experience of alliance raids

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Originally Posted by Nebelheim

Like i keep saying it was never difficult to complete and its original difficulty wasn't that much harder then it currently is so why change it to become easier when it was always easy.

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That is your opinion you cannot speak for others experience, you can only speak to your own , crystal tower is part of the main story quests and no matter how much you personally want it to change and be harder it won't be. I will say it again there are people with varying degrees of skill who play this game and the game is made for a wide variety of players especially the MSQ.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Plus they never “changed” it, ilvl creep ruined it, it’s the same thing as people now complaining that it ruins endsinger, there was no active change to the content itself

And in answer to your question, to give the sprouts an authentic experience of an actual raid, CT gives a terrible first experience of alliance raids

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Why do you think there is a duty roulette? It's not there just to give you bonus stuff it's there so new players who join can do these dungeons, the bonus stuff is for you to participate. Here is a idea get a group of people and do the harder content with them, coordinate and plan your own group of that's right it will take work to do that. I don't know maybe I'm crazy but just a thought. If you are advocating for harder new content then I support you! But going back to old content that is tied to the story is not a winning strategy for the devs.

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Originally Posted by Snorky

That is your opinion you cannot speak for others experience, you can only speak to your own , crystal tower is part of the main story quests and no matter how much you personally want it to change and be harder it won't be. I will say it again there are people with varying degrees of skill who play this game and the game is made for a wide variety of players especially the MSQ.

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While were at it why dont we gut out every bosses mechanics in every mandatory story dungeon from arr-shb and have each boss auto attack only because we have to "think of the new players" because apparently every new player wants hack and slash black dessert online combat where bosses only auto attack.

idk why ilvl sync isn’t the default rather than the exception

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Originally Posted by Nebelheim

While were at it why dont we gut out every bosses mechanics in every mandatory story dungeon from arr-shb and have each boss auto attack only because we have to "think of the new players" because apparently every new player wants hack and slash black dessert online combat where bosses only auto attack.

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So because you don't like what I said about story being king in this MMO you say this? Lol okay so glad the devs don't listen to this forum. Carry on with shouting at the clouds! Hyperbole it's a thing!

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Originally Posted by Snorky

So because you don't like what I said about story being king in this MMO you say this? Lol okay so glad the devs don't listen to this forum. Carry on with shouting at the clouds!

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I don't have a problem with the story being a focus i just think something that is already extremely easy shouldn't be made even easier just because "it became mandatory." If something becoming mandatory is the only excuse for making something even easier then they should do it with mandatory dungeons as well. Before shadow bringers crystal tower didn't take any longer than it does now except maybe further power/potency creeps making it easier. There are times i think the only reason why people like the current crystal tower raids is because it takes less then 10 minutes and people can lazily spam it for moogle tome events and that's why they wouldn't want it changed back while also using the excuse of "but what about the new players".

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Originally Posted by ChonkGoblinSuprem

idk why ilvl sync isn’t the default rather than the exception

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For some reason they don’t synch the big X.0 fights. The final fight of the 6.0 endwalker MSQ isn’t synched and a couple of friends and I rolled it in roulettes and we had to sandbag pretty hard to not ruin a new players experience since we are about 100ilvl over the mark for where it’s balanced at.

I know it's taboo on this forum, but I don't find the game easy at all and despite how long I've been playing now (about 20 months) remain pretty terrible at it. Which isn't to say that I want anything to change - in fact, being rubbish at the game pushes me to keep trying to improve, even if I often fail to do so.