Enforce ilvl-sync to Alliance Raid Roulettes to put a stop to the Crystal Tower Spam

[Iyrnthota]

ilvl cheesing is an easy scapegoat, it's much harder to accept that this is just the way the game is designed

[Smollett]

This is possible. Even if you see someone requipping gear that doesnt mean that all 23 other players were rouletteers with every araid available. An ilvl cheeser can simply be put into the group of someone queueing on a lvl 50 character. In that case ilvl cheesers are actually pushing honest rouletteers towards other araids because they take up a CT slot you might have gotten instead.

They still are threat if not the main cuplrit. Even if each 1 of 10 araids are CT bacause of cheesers alone, it's 10% more CT raids. And on the scale of all queues thats a lot.

[Esmoire]

Just make it so you don't get the tomestones/XP for a high level unless you queue with an appropriate item level. Something really simple, like artifact gear item level. XP stops scaling upwards for 60, 70, 80, if you don't meet super simple requirements, and at 90 you don't get max level tomestones if you are not even item level 540. You can get 540 with the free artifact armour they give you and they shower you with accessories so no excuses.

If they just decreased the max ilv of the first two CT raids, then they'd actually be fun as you'd have to do mechanics. That's the solution they should go with. It's simple, it's easy, and it doesn't require making the system annoying to use on alt jobs.

Not really. Played it min item level and they're still awful raids honestly. You still skip a lot of the mechanics, and even if you didn't, they suck, and they had bad ideas. I don't blame them since it was their first and second go, though.

[Saraide]

They still are threat if not the main cuplrit. Even if each 1 of 10 araids are CT bacause of cheesers alone, it's 10% more CT raids. And on the scale of all queues thats a lot.

Again, no proof exists. If other alliance raids were being run, you would get them (like me).

[Smollett]

If other alliance raids were being run, you would get them (like me).

Or not. If you never got into CT without newbies/<60 lvl players but with someone with health bar hop, you're either very lucky or blissfully ignorant.

[Saraide]

Or not. If you never got into CT without newbies/<60 lvl players but with someone with health bar hop, you're either very lucky or blissfully ignorant.

Are you checking every player if they are above lvl 60? Also I wouldnt call getting paradigm's breach lucky. If it was possible I would trade my queues with you in a heartbeat.

[Neoyoshi]

Dunno why they don't just put a ilvl sync on the raids. That's basically what they did to Castrum and Praetorium to keep them from being as steamrollable as they used to be upon making them into 4-man dungeons.

Gear was never the problem, it was people skipping the cutscenes in those 2 very story-heavy dungeons; thats what made it as you say it "steamrollable" - heck, i remember being in quite a number of those where i'd go in to Praetorium- get myself a bit lost- then a couple minutes later, the dungeon was almost over and i was still trying to figure out how to get pack to the 7 people i lost track of.

I guess what i'm saying is Castrum and Prae are not great examples for this arguement, pick something else. xD

[Smollett]

Are you checking every player if they are above lvl 60?

Sometimes? LotA and ST give you plethora of free time. Glamour, (i)lvl, plates, weirdos - your choice.

[Arrius]

They need to bump the boss HP a bit and the damage in general in Crystal Tower, punishing the raid hard when ignoring them.

#makeglasyadangerousagain

[Raoabolic]

#makeglasyadangerousagain

Why you gotta take my melee dps raid target dummy away like that? :/