I think Crystal Tower queues need a new Band-Aid fix (or preferably, a real fix)

[FinaSel]

I waited 219 minutes for Labyrinth of the Ancients today. Finally, to fill up the missing slots I asked everyone in my FC and LSs.

But that's nothing compared to waiting 8+ hours for Ultima's Bane.
And then one of the tanks was a DRK who didn't have provoke.

[Elizar_Naki]

To play devil's advocate with to this statement, I always do nothing but auto-attacks during the first two rounds of the bone dragon fight. One less dps contributing to the boss's death, in my mind, gives the tanks more time to pick up and deal with the skeletons. Once round 3 hits, though, I go all out, and I don't hold back on other bosses unless it looks like I'm about to rip threat away (rare, but it happens). Point being, don't judge the dps by what you see them doing at a glance...unless they're doing it consistently throughout the raid, then yeah.

As for the base idea, I'd be all for this, specifically because of a) what you mentioned, and b) getting full groups but having one or two people not click in and force the rest of us to wait another hour.

[Genaxx]

I don't know why they don't keep the weekly reward up to date with gear, adding Mhachi Matter as a reward. That way people can still gear their upgrade from Ark and WC and if they want extra, do the old raids.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I don't know why they don't keep the weekly reward up to date with gear, adding Mhachi Matter as a reward. That way people can still gear their upgrade from Ark and WC and if they want extra, do the old raids.

They won't add the matter to old raids because that's 2 matters per week you could get, which would allow people to gear up faster and quit sooner.

[Elijahshane]

They could adjust damage and such and make it a level 60 raid maybe :l I know that cuts off ARR players but I don't know it maybe some sort of level sync midway between 50 -60 average ilevel and allow all levels in between in?

[Genaxx]

They won't add the matter to old raids because that's 2 matters per week you could get, which would allow people to gear up faster and quit sooner.

Matter is used to exchange for grade V materia, which you can get as much as you want in a week, wouldn't make a difference.

And right now, people quit for a lot of other reasons rather than gearing up too fast.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Matter is used to exchange for grade V materia, which you can get as much as you want in a week, wouldn't make a difference.

And right now, people quit for a lot of other reasons rather than gearing up too fast.

I always get those two things mixed up.

[paradigmfellow]

Although it may not be related, it is worth pointing out. One of the things I do not like about rerunning old 24-man content is it reminds me of the horrors of having to rerun the damn thing for a specific loot. Even nowadays it still takes roughly 45 minutes to run a CT, ST, and WoD. I would not mind it if it was unsync, time would be reduced by quite a bit.

[bounddreamer]

I waited something like an hour and twenty minutes for WoD yesterday. During that time the queue fake-popped about six or seven times but someone withdrew and a few times it took me back to seemingly the only person in the queue.

Part of the issue is people queuing for multiple duties. So it can look like I have a nearly full party, then Syrcus will fill up and most of my queue gets moved to that instance, leaving only me or one or two others queued solely for WoD.

Frustrating, but there's really nothing you can do. I spent the time getting legendary Noko medals, and by the time I actually loaded in I was 13/15, so the time wasn't wasted. If I didn't have the event to work on, I would have been working on beast tribes and crafting.

[Alpr]

When I was working towards the weekly thing you can do for the i230 anima weapon, the timer was up to 200 minutes on LOTA since I hadn't done that questline. needless to say, I'd rather farm the 9k-ish eso's to buy the oil. Although saying that, I'm not farming 50k eso's for the 3rd step on i210 anyways, so it's a moot point.

Regardless, I agree.