Should I Bother with Ridorana Lighthouse?

Hey, folks! I just returned after a little break, and I'm curious as to whether I should bother learning and queuing for Ridorana Lighthouse. Most of my gear was 350/360 pieces, though I've replaced a few already with dungeon/tome/Alphascape pieces.

Should I just focus on roulettes and Alphascape, or is there anything worthwhile other than experience from running lighthouse?

Thanks in advance.

If you like TT cards, there's some that drop, as well as a minion at the last boss. I'm pretty sure you would have to finish it too if you want to do the eventual third installment.

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Originally Posted by Wonkyfinger

Hey, folks! I just returned after a little break, and I'm curious as to whether I should bother learning and queuing for Ridorana Lighthouse. Most of my gear was 350/360 pieces, though I've replaced a few already with dungeon/tome/Alphascape pieces.

Should I just focus on roulettes and Alphascape, or is there anything worthwhile other than experience from running lighthouse?

Thanks in advance.

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You'll definitely want to run Lighthouse, (I'd say it's for story, but I'm a Tactics fan, so ignoring that) because when 4.5 releases and we get the 3rd installment, 1) you won't be able to get in without hitting up Lighthouse, and 2) you'll need a coin from Rabanastre, Ridorana, and Ivalice #3 to upgrade each piece of Genesis gear, unless you choose to do it solely through hunts/centurio seals.

Derp, forgot a third one would be coming. I'll hit it up this weekend, thanks for the replies.

Also there's the weekly cracked cluster from there with is a free grade VI materia for whatever gear you are wearing. Always worth adding those into your gear.

In the long run: yes, you should consider doing Lighthouse. Primarily because you will be wanting to stock up on the coins from there as well as Rabanastre so you can take advantage of the tomestone gear upgrades once the last Ivalice raid comes out. If nothing else, you also get a couple Cracked Clusters for your troubles, which can go towards boosting your stats on your gear if you like doing more challenging content like savage. Also, the gear's still not bad for alt job progression, not to mention GC seals barring that. There's also the minion you could win.

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Originally Posted by Wonkyfinger

Derp, forgot a third one would be coming. I'll hit it up this weekend, thanks for the replies.

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how can you forget a 3rd one is coming? 3 crystal towers - 3 mhachi 24 mans - why would there only be 2 ivalice 24 mans. smh lol

It's a fun raid and it's definitely worth doing. I just suck at math.

You going to want to get the coin every week for upgrading the latest tombstone gear eventually so it would probably be a good idea to start doing it yes.

I suppose even hell is worth experiencing once.

It's a great alliance raid, you should do it for no other reason than completion/fun. But also yeah, you will still need the coins for upgrade items, and the other little trinkets are nice.

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Originally Posted by Wonkyfinger

Hey, folks! I just returned after a little break, and I'm curious as to whether I should bother learning and queuing for Ridorana Lighthouse. Most of my gear was 350/360 pieces, though I've replaced a few already with dungeon/tome/Alphascape pieces.

Should I just focus on roulettes and Alphascape, or is there anything worthwhile other than experience from running lighthouse?

Thanks in advance.

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There's a Bacon Bread quest that comes with it that rewards a bunch of Materia.

Shouldn’t be a high priority atm if you’re already doing alphascape normal and ex roulette. Focus on getting your Suzaku weapon through party finder

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Originally Posted by Tikeio

Shouldn’t be a high priority atm if you’re already doing alphascape normal and ex roulette. Focus on getting your Suzaku weapon through party finder

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Finding a group to practice (and actually progress) is hard enough. Then there's clear parties. And farm parties. Which no one seems to be able to do. With enough patience that magic group will happen, but it's definitely way easier said than done. Glad I was able to get mine. I didn't want to farm that any more than I had to.

You get the coins from there, they will be needed for whenever they release the next 24-man to buy the upgrade items for the Genesis Tomestone gear.

So, I would say, yes. But only for the coins. The place is boring and painful enough to do just once a week.

You would not need to upgrade each piece of tome gear but at most you would want to run it to at the very least get the weapon and augment it (if you have no better weapon already) because certain content has ilv requirements that you would otherwise not meet.
Hell's Kier Extreme for example the ilv requirement is ilv 370

The 2 24 man's however can be very very painful as players tend to make it miserable

To the OP

Here's the skinny... just do it. If you happen to be a Final Fantasy Tactics or FFXII fan, then you absolutely owe it to yourself to do them... the story is actually well done and compelling.