I'm sad to see this game going the same route as SWTOR.

[Borfin]

Wait, amazing story? Could you please be more specific what part of it AMAZED you?

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I quite enjoyed the stories of the Scions and the contentions with Cid and Lahabrea. The endless fetch quests got a little tiresome, but it was nice to have a MMO whose story I actually cared about.

The story was why I couldn't put it down all the way to 50.

Please, please please please PLEASE tell me you aren't under the impression that Crystal Tower is 'new' content...

Of course it's skippable, but it was also meant to be there from launch, they just withheld it because they didn't have it ready in time. It's not new content, this isn't the 'next' thing, it's putting in place what was supposed to be there on day one. 2.2 will contain the next step for Binding Coil. This is in no way indicative that content patches will take steps backwards. 2.1 contains something that belongs -before- the final step because of a delay, not because they intentionally 'took a step back'.

There seem to be people who are looking at CT's iLvl 80 status and freaking out, throwing out wild assumptions such as that every other patch will be an in-between step rather than a step forward, over a 1-time circumstance with a dungeon.

It doesn't matter what they intended. The fact is they're releasing tier 1 content after people are already tier 2 geared. An easy fix would be to up the ilevel and stats, but SE doesn't seem interested in doing that. That's going to cause problems with finding groups and maintaining intended difficulty to say nothing of gear. People will get bored, SE WILL lose subscribers and for a game this new they can't take that chance. It may very well be a death sentence for the MMO, especially since the biggest contender in the genre is upping their game to match SE's example. That's the problem here.

Whether they intended it to be new or not, CT IS new content, and it will be largely skipped because of their choices with gear progression.