Crystal Tower queue times are just awful still.

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I don't think I've ever had to sit through 3hr queue times on Primal servers. Average is 30min... MAYBE 1hr, depending on day and offtimes.

Hell, I'm on Aether and I've been in queue for about 45 minutes as a tank. Granted, that was primarily due to commencement roulettes. 23/24 ready.....wait five minutes, ding, 22/24 ready, wait five minutes....

Granted, I haven't queued since I finally got the boots from CT to have the full(minus head) outfit. Tired of dealing with the idiots in it. Specifically the ones who act like asses and/or start pulls without being sure everyone's ready or understands the fight. Newbies to CT I haven't the slightest problem with as long as they listen to instructions.

I went to queue up for a CT a few hours ago, first as BLM, average wait time 30 minutes. Quit that, changed to WHM and tried again, average wait time 8 minutes. Quit that, change to WAR, average wait time less than 5 minutes, took about 1½ minutes.

Level a tank, level a healer. CT doesn't take top gear, you'll do fine in mostly darklight as long as you know the mechanics and what you're doing.

Pfft, I did fine as a WAR in my AF gear, may have gotten my zenith already, and mostly green ilvl 55 accessories.

Editing to conserve posts:

CT is much better since 2.28, end game players are going in for myth tomes, so it's not just fresh 50's that have no clue anymore.

Weapon in actuality is about half your ilvl, even though the game only counts it as 2/13. Body and pants are also proportionality higher than the rest of the gear, with those 3 at ilvl70+ you will have an easy time with 45-50 gear in the rest of the slots.

I'm well aware of how strong/important one's weapon is compared to the rest of the gear, that said. My upgrade path after hitting 50 was pretty much the following: Wearing AF gear -> Buy ilvl 55 accessories -> Got a green dungeon helm -> Got Legs, Gloves, Body(In that order IIRC) from CT, bought Myth Belt, accidentally bought PLD Myth Head....In short, I pretty much skipped Darklight and went straight to tome/CT gear.