Quote Originally Posted by Tsumdere View Post
It was "that's the raiding DC we should go there".

Crystal PF was in some ways, actually better. The community was much smaller and you could effectively cull out all the bad people (edit: and by this I mean you could quickly find people you enjoyed playing with that were at your skill level) and only ever play with people at your speed. I PF'd through all of Verse, all of Promise, UWU, and all of Asphodelos and it was smoother than anything I've experienced in Aether.

It was also full of good players who didn't feel the need to swap to "the raiding DC" during the split because they were confident in their abilities to clear and to foster a new raiding scene.

It was slowly becoming a very decent raiding scene with Ultimate PFs actually clearing and everything. Its weakness was the population and the constant parroting of "if you want to raid, join Aether".

Also, Crystal adopted Sharingan LR first.
Yeah, I actually didn't have a bad experience raiding on Crystal in the last two tiers, even new to the raiding scene as I was. There were lots of very competent raiders in PF, and good structure about stuff like "3 wipes, disband" to keep people in check from trying to get a carry ahead of their prog point. Conversely, my experience with Aether so far as been a TON of trap parties for P9S, plenty of them full of people who didn't travel to be there. I've yet to be convinced that Aether has an inherently better raiding scene, it just has a larger population.

You used to be able to find a decent number of parties until like 2am est on Crystal, and now you're lucky if there's even one party for an instance after 10pm. Not great for chill evening or late night prog. That's why I feel like I'd like for them to restrict current content. If you wanna run roulettes with your buddies on another DC, more power to you, but current content that typically drives server activity and the return of players should be restricted to your home DC, I think.