What is to stop people from dropping in Crystal Tower once they receive loot?

[ClockworkSpectre]

The final boss drops 50 myth tomes, so that's pretty significant...

Actually the second to last boss awards myth tomes, for whatever stupid reason. I have cleared CT already, and I was a little confused when that happened. Also, its just the first day, people leaving early probably won't be an issue this early on.

There really are no junk mobs to kill your way through in CT, so there are essentially several boss fights, then you get loot after each one.

Honestly the OPs concern is valid considering the length of time the run takes, if some one gets something from the first or second drop it is not unreasonable to think some people with just drop.

The "One loot item per week" thing is just retarded for this reason and also because its not like its even the best gear in the game anyways. The amount of myth tomes awarded for the time spent isn't enough to make a person stay either.

[Xenobius]

I hate that it punished for greed. Monk Fists drop, no monks, but three people have a monk alt, and all have to see it burn to get the item they want. Really cruel, and I estimate a lot of items will burn this way. Fun mechanic.

2.1 delivered no "new" content to further the progression past Turn 5, so I guess SE thinks this will keep players grinding through CT longer for vanity, at least.
Seems like they live in an alternate dimension where people don't get bored for some reason. Ever.

[Raymeo]

2.1 delivered no "new" content to further the progression past Turn 5, so I guess SE thinks this will keep players grinding through CT longer for vanity, at least.
Seems like they live in an alternate dimension where people don't get bored for some reason. Ever.

Are you saying that you'd get less burnt out if you could spam the dungeon all week long? Or are you saying that you'd be less bored during the following weeks, when you'd have nothing left to do? Either way... o_0

[Soonkyu]

I've seen similar threads in the past few days leading up to the release of the patch, and while I believed that they were going to provide all four chests for each party at the end of the instance, the fact is that each boss drops a chest right after completion. I knew something was fishy when one of our DPS asked everyone else to pass DRG stuff for him (he was on Dragoon and the only one in the party, anyway??), but when the first chest popped, BRD boots appeared. He greeded them, it dropped to him, he vanished.

[Roflcoptorz]

Yay, players have made several threads about this issue. Loot locking " casual content" is retarded. And yes, players will continue up to leave the duty because they have no attachment to other players in CT because SE forces players to pug. SE needs to do something, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. Well just be told to deal with it for 3 months like housing.

[xRitzx]

Is crystal tower beatable if you lose team members? If so, how much of your party and alliance needs to stay to beat it?

[Nikita]

I have yet to do CT. My friend however ran it last night and sounded pretty upset with it. According to him, chests spawn after each boss kill. There are multiple bosses. Also on reddit they are talking about how people will get vote kicked so their friends get certain drops.

Edit: Apparently you are able to replace members that left. >___>

[Yurikitty]

Sigh, Im so glad they put in vote kick, something that was really needed, only for douchebags to find a way to use it to be, well douchebags... This is why we cant have nice things!

[Velhart]

As far as I understand, there is only loot at the end of the dungeon.

One item drops after each boss fight.

This does concern me in the fact that if I DF this, I have to hope that the 23 other people will be legit and not just leave after they get a loot or drop out because a boss didn't drop what they needed. This is going to be a likely scenario. Say someone is looking for an item that drops on the first boss, it doesn't drop. He simply disbands the party, wait however long the lockout is for dropping out, then re-queue.

In short, it is a system that can be heavily abused right now and there do need to be some adjustments. Hopefully people will use the "Party in Progress" tab to counter balance this. We will see how this plays out.

[Ri_ri]

Are you saying that you'd get less burnt out if you could spam the dungeon all week long? Or are you saying that you'd be less bored by the following weeks, during which you'd have nothing left to do? Either way... o_0

I don't know about him, but I would since I'd only do the Crystal Tower when I wanted to.

Right now, we're 'forced' to run it every week, multiple times, to get a specific drop and not waste the week. Without lockouts, we could greed stuff, need something else that we wanted (but it's not priority), and so on.

People without self control could get bored, but we shouldn't be trying to force them to stay, as they'd get bored and leave anyway.