Shouldn't the Crystal Tower Raids have voice acting & be re-worked?

[NekoMataMata]

They should rework it in the msq or at the least turn it into its own thing. Once that's done they can actually give us alliance raids that are fine tuned since they won't be msq required.

[Ranaku]

This falls under the category "would be nice, will not happen".

There should be more voiced content overall. And reworks especially in coil/crystal tower to make that content more visible and less niche. Maybe now 16 is out they might have more time to address that stuff.

[DayHealer]

"would be nice, will not happen".

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[Alleluia]

Would be nice for consistency. However...

Spoilers below for those not up to EW:

It would take away any mystery remaining about the Exarch.

Even if you go in sure its him, he works pretty hard to make you doubt yourself; and I've seen it work on people. Heck, I recognized the male miqote face from the trailer, knew it must be him, and he still briefly made me question myself when he bald-faced lied to me at one point. It kept me guessing, and not being 100% sure was part of the fun.

Voice acting would take away any doubts the second you hear him in ShB and that would suck the fun out a bit for newbies, imo.

That said, wouldn't surprise me if someone gives those scenes the eleven labs treatment at some point and posts them on youtube. We have enough voice lines in-game for practically everyone besides those who've never had a VA. And you can just use voices from other characters or games for that if you have to.

[XianRo]

the only rework CT raids need is plopping them in msq roulette so alliance roulette can actually be mildly enjoyable instead of "oh...I'm level 90 but 1 guy who's hp is suddenly spiking want to be bored for 10 minutes".
Yes we'd probably mostly get Void Ark due to cheesers but at lv60 most of the jobs in the game actually start to be enjoyabke to play.
Like at lv50 on blm your main attack is...fire uno. And you have no leylines or triplecast or sharpcast. What a thrill.

[TheMightyMollusk]

First fix the item level bloat and power creep issues that have made the Crystal Tower raids almost entirely a non-event, then we can worry about cosmetic stuff like voice acting. I want to see people have to learn how to do the platforms on Glasya Labolas again.

[DiaDeem]

Not only Crystal Tower. All raids, and alliance raids should be voiced imho. Binding Coils were voiced, and we just had VA for the first time (outside of combat) since Coils in Pandae so here's to hoping it was a sign of good things to come.

[OM3GA-Z3RO]

Never going to happen, they should've added VA from the start in raid and other cutscenes but they are very selective and inconsistent on what gets VA like certain raid bosses during the fights and what doesn't.

The last few cutscenes in Coils get VA
&
The Epilogue of the Panda raid cutscene gets VA

Still would love to have the "Burn out the bad!" scene voiced.

[littlehobbit13]

Would be nice for consistency. However...

Spoilers below for those not up to EW:

It would take away any mystery remaining about the Exarch.

Even if you go in sure its him, he works pretty hard to make you doubt yourself; and I've seen it work on people. Heck, I recognized the male miqote face from the trailer, knew it must him, and he still briefly made me question myself when he bald-faced lied to me at one point. It kept me guessing, and not being 100% sure was part of the fun.

Voice acting would take away any doubts the second you hear him in ShB and that would suck the fun out a bit for newbies, imo.

Dropped in to say exactly this if it wasn't already said. If you're paying attention to the details, it's pretty obvious who the Exarch is, and having voice work would just give it away completely.

If they were going to do it, I'd want something more roundabout, where some Endwalker 10-deep side quest chain rewarded you with access in the Unending Journey desk to a voiced version of

the cutscene where you meet him for the first time as he's pranking you.

[Kaliesto]

If they're going to rework CT, I'd rather they turn it into a solo instance with NPCs...including voice over etc.

Maybe turn it into a variant dungeon.

In order to future-proof the game, I think they're going to need to make the core-content MSQ entirely solo-able (with NPCs).

The most recent fight vs. Golbez with his regular position resets attests that it will eventually be an NPC trial, or at the very least it was made with NPCs in mind to keep future reworking to a minimum.

Considering almost all dungeons in 3.x-4.x have had some tweaking/ENTIRE fights redone to allow for NPC parties, I don't think this is as far-fetched as it seems.

That is something I didn't consider, one day FFXIV won't have that playerbase for CT once FFXIV starts hitting the real slowdown, kind of what happened with FFXI.