Quote Originally Posted by Iyrnthota View Post
People have proposed numerous potential solutions in this thread and others like it across the internet, but so far I've seen no compelling solution that does not cause problems elsewhere.
I would say that their decision making is not poor, but merely not to your liking.
I would wager many of the proposed solutions do wind up with a far better one than the one we're being subjected to here, e.g., there's very little downside to splitting alliance according to, say, Level 50/60, 70/80/90. Equally, there's very little reason not to buff the Loathsome memories, or to award them from completion of Alliance roulette itself, rather than just for Crystal Tower. Unless, you can of course tell me a downside to this?

No, I would still call it poor decision-making when their decisions have left certain duties in the roulette oversaturated, especially to the extent that it has become a common point of complaint. I neither like it nor do I find it a good decision on their part. Initially, the MSQ for Shadowbringers was designed so that Crystal Tower wasn't a requirement - Something they added later on in a patch - Arguably anything pertinent to the Shadowbringers story, that was also relevant to the Crystal Tower could have, nay, should have been included within the MSQ as a summary of sorts. - This way, people could do Crystal Tower of their own volition if they wanted to do so.

Furthermore, there is no universe where relic item attainment should have been attached to a very specific raid series (Knowing full well they've saturated it enough with story requirement) - When the easier and much more realistic viable alternative is to just attach it to the roulette rather than specific duties itself, and I am referring to the Law's Order relic step here. This was an extremely poor decision regardless of how you look at it, with arguably even smaller foresight.