Crystal Tower Loot Lock Out how long?

[Reslin]

Please tell me how many major mmos have WEEK LONG lockouts? with ~18 items in a loot table?

For end game content? Many of them actually. Even WoW does. Many major raids/end game content in mmo's have a week long lockout. In a fact a week is standard and usually the lockout ends on the weekly maintenance day.

[NovaUltimatum]

Yeah, the restriction better only apply to the run you're currently in and wear off the instant you leave.

Even if you wouldn't....this mechanic would enable lots of douches to just quit the run or "disconnect" from the server once they got their gear then re-queue to get more. It won't be that fair for the remaining players especially if tanks/healers get into the habit of dropping

[Kyrios]

What will probably happen is each wing will have its own loot pool so you have to fall into the right wing as well you will most likely not get a chest until the end in the letter it said about half the group should get a drop so thats 12 pieces of gear which is 4 possible chests.

[Hazanko]

For end game content? Many of them actually. Even WoW does. Many major raids/end game content in mmo's have a week long lockout. In a fact a week is standard and usually the lockout ends on the weekly maintenance day.

Except we don't have a normal weekly maintenance, we have maintenance whenever the Japanese have problems, and then SE says the heck to Na/Eu players we have to cater to our people and make the game appealing to them. :c

[ispano]

Except we don't have a normal weekly maintenance, we have maintenance whenever the Japanese have problems, and then SE says the heck to Na/Eu players we have to cater to our people and make the game appealing to them. :c

That doesn't really matter, the point is that a week long lockout is rather common.

[Battlewrench]

yes I know week long lockouts is common, my point is that we don't have normal maintenance times.... >.>
Did you even read what I typed?

Think they mean the maintenance times are irrelevant its still a weekly lockout.

[Arkista]

Even if you wouldn't....this mechanic would enable lots of douches to just quit the run or "disconnect" from the server once they got their gear then re-queue to get more. It won't be that fair for the remaining players especially if tanks/healers get into the habit of dropping

Lets say with a 24hour lockout that a player has done CoB for the week, maybe some Beastmen quest, and is near capping his/her Myth Tomes for the week. So they run CT in hopes of getting a piece of gear they do 2-3 run no drop or get out lotted, they finish each run and cap on myth for the week. Now the player has no reason to finish the entire run (LOL Phil Tomes) what's stopping that player from leaving if they lose lot/gear doesn't drop/or they get the gear? People run in to AK and go for the accessory chest and leave all the time if they don't get what they want.

Seeing as how Crystal Tower is useable in Duty Finder I doubt SE will not allow people to join in progress.

Why a lootlock?
Well because otherwhise the darklight gear would be completely useless. Everyone could just farm the crystal tower gear in one day.
That's not how it's intended, especially after they wanna put in a few different ways to farm philos and mythos.

Darklight is pretty much useless now seeing as how HQ ilvl70 gear and materia prices have dropped by 75% or more. And no Unless you have some very amazing luck your not farming Crystal tower in a few days and getting all the gear we will have to lot against others.

[Hazanko]

Think they mean the maintenance times are irrelevant its still a weekly lockout.

Really maintenance times mean nothing to you guys when we all sit here whinning and complaining we can't play the game and you're seriously going to tell me maintenance times are irrelevant.. lool nice jokes xD

[Battlewrench]

Really maintenance times mean nothing to you guys when we all sit here whinning and complaining we can't play the game and you're seriously going to tell me maintenance times are irrelevant.. lool nice jokes xD

I THINK that's what THEY meant and to this discussion yes its irrelevant. To derail the conversation more maintenance is needed when its needed no problems with it IMO.

[ispano]

Really maintenance times mean nothing to you guys when we all sit here whinning and complaining we can't play the game and you're seriously going to tell me maintenance times are irrelevant.. lool nice jokes xD

The person you responded to was talking about the week long lockout. He just mentioned Maintenance time because that's how most do it. You took it off the rails and started blabbing about the Maintenance times instead. Hence why I responded.