Crystal Tower, weaker gear than Coil, whats the point?

[C-croft]

This whole situation was handled kinda strangely as CT was intended to be done before BC. I get why they left BC in without CT as it would give the hardcore players something to do while waiting for new content, but at the same time if people are fully geared from BC there will be little point in doing CT more than once for experiencing the boss fights and whatever story is associated with it.

This won't affect the majority of the players, but there will be a very small minority of hardcores that may not hang around much in 2.1 if they finally clear BC and get Turn 5 on farm. It's been my experience that some people within this group of players don't want to do much outside of raiding (i.e. not interested in leveling other classes) so I doubt the other content coming out in 2.1 will be enough to hold these people over until 2.2.

Unfortunately for them, they are typically a very small minute percentage of the population. They have a choice to stay or go and I respect that.

[Orsnoire]

Bottom line is that if you, as a player, don't feel like CT is worthwhile for you, then chances are IT'S NOT FOR YOU!

Most players haven't even stepped into endgame yet. I know it doesn't feel that way to many of those who have spent the last 1.5 months blazing through content, but most of the playerbase hasn't done much, if anything at the end. By the time CT comes out, it will provide another avenue for gear for those players, as well as any other new players to the game who join later.

[Cichy]

I'm actually looking forward to CT, hopefully you're not as restricted to enter as with Coil and you can gear up your other jobs. Remember right now no one can beat turn 5. That means it's 6 pieces of gear between 8 people for those who can beat turn 4. Not everyone can. I've been running coil for 3 weeks now and got 1 piece. I pray that Crystal Tower puts out more than that.

[Ryios]

Crystal Tower was suppose to be out at launch. It was designed to be between Titan and Coil. As far as I know, very few (if any) FC's have even cleared BCB legitally. Crystal Tower should offer new itemization opportunities to make BCB a little easier to gear for. Right now we have darklight and AF2 and that's about it unless you do turn 1/2/4 enough times to gear out on those to clear 5.

[Alavastre]

Why doesn't SE drop different tomes for CT, and then offer alternate things to buy with them? So people who run coil would be able to get other items instead of gear. This could include mounts, minions, housing items along with gear drops. Kind of like a rep grind deal.

[azethoth]

Well, it seems to me that you are the same kind of player that whines that there is not enough end-game content, and yet you're also whining that the tower won't gain you anything - and therefore implying you won't run it because there is no point.

I'm sorry, but that is an incredibly short sighted and limited view of content in an MMORPG. This stuff is meant to be experienced by players in groups, who are playing the game - remember it is a game - for the fun of it. looking at everything through a lens that analyzes whether you will personally benefit from it, or whether it will benefit your gear is incredibly limiting. Every game will have a small selection of content at the highest level that will specifically benefit those who already have the best gear, that is completely normal, and to think otherwise is self centered and naive.

There is never enough end game content at launch that is a reality for MMOs. Perhaps I am just spoiled by tiered progression being linear from the start. Given that they will be adding more floors as time goes on gives the zone relevance.

I will be among the first to run something only because an item it drops looks cool. I guess the homogeneity of gear is starting to wear on me. If ilvl 90 is automatically better than ilvl 80 or 70(god I hate item levels) than the motivation to acquire lower gear is harder to muster; if higher level gear is obtainable with the current level of gear I have obtained.
I recognize that many people find the leveling and gearing of all the jobs to be an enjoyable experience. I might as well if fates were not truly the most viable method of leveling your alternate jobs. Fate grinding hurts, it is not fun for me. I also do notenjoy melee classes, and am terrible at them truth be told, so those are out for me. I have lvled BLM to 50 and wow, so utterly boring for me. Bard is quite similar. I wish they were more support than they are.
However that topic is not what this thread is about. Since many talked about it I thought I should respond as the OP.
Also it is not do I personally benefit from CT in its current form, but does the game? This game currently is centered on gear, that's all there is to it. Once housing is launched, I will probably get lost in it.

[HealBus]

Crystal Tower was suppose to be out at launch. It was designed to be between Titan and Coil. As far as I know, very few (if any) FC's have even cleared BCB legitally. Crystal Tower should offer new itemization opportunities to make BCB a little easier to gear for. Right now we have darklight and AF2 and that's about it unless you do turn 1/2/4 enough times to gear out on those to clear 5.

I don't think any amount of gear will help with T5 right now with undodgeable 1 shot non damage twisters.

[ElaintheShy]

I havnt been in coil yet so CT's gear is better than what I have.

[Sove92]

Ahahahaha, people saying how CT is worthless because coil drops better gear. Once again, does all new content always need to be harder than the previous content?

Coil drops you ilvl 90 gear, but due to lockout, running a full Coil run will gives you 0.75 pieces of Allagan gear a week. Myth tomes are capped at 300 a week, so AF2 is also very slow to get. How is CT worthless if it lets you replace your ilvl 70 gear with ilvl 80 when you already did your weekly caps?

[Zumi]

I am guessing CT will drop 6 pieces of gear per boss. Since coil drops 2 pieces of gear for 8 people, now you have 24 so they should multiply that by 3.

I bet we will hear all these rant stories about how X person won whatever piece of gear and how Y player deserved it more.