"Terrible Idea" does not begin to describe the CT loot system in reality.

[C-croft]

Here is the thing though. If they made it so you could no-limit farm CT then it would just end up like darklight gear. Darklight gear would be essentially worthless, you could just farm CT for i80 and skip the DL tier altogether...

But it's the opposite now. You grind iLvl 70 and begin coil. Why bother with CT and a one week lockout? Granted it should be done, as an extra upgrade is nice, but you can easily overgear CT in two-three weeks with coil and myth. A one week lockout on gear that isn't required to progress to ilvl 90 doesn't make sense.

[zdub303]

But it's the opposite now. You grind iLvl 70 and begin coil. Why bother with CT and a one week lockout? Granted it should be done, as an extra upgrade is nice, but you can easily overgear CT in two-three weeks with coil and myth. A one week lockout on gear that isn't required to progress to ilvl 90 doesn't make sense.

Hence we're back to all of the complaints that the 'elitists' had when they complained it was i80 at all.

i80 is not required for you, but there are some who might be struggling in coil and could find use for i80 gear. Or in my case, i80 gear will be useful for my dragoon. Also, 99.9% of players will not be able to do twintania in just i70, and even then I think most players will need full i90 to do twin. Full i90 isn't an overnight achievement, and i80 gear will be great to supplement in the meantime. Heck I happily took a crown of light yesterday in CT even though im average ilvl 87 on my PLD.

My dad is a WHM who has seen almost nothing drop in coil, he still has a bunch of i70 he could drop some CT gear in the meantime while he waits for allagan or myth gear. Once his WHM is decked out he can start farming for his BLM. Seriously, plenty of uses for CT gear for us.

If it was unlocked loot, then we would feel compelled to run it continuously until we had no more i70 left - otherwise we're holding back our team on twin and progressing the new primals. I, for one, am glad I don't have to do that.