Syrcus tower is currently broken

[Shialan]

how can they mess up an old raid that has been around for a while with something like that?

somehow... my hopes for DawnTrail, as low as they were.... have dropped further.

The frick is with people like you?

Have you EVER in your life heard the term "bug"? Sometimes unexpected stuff happens when you change something in the system.

[Kes13a]

The frick is with people like you?

Have you EVER in your life heard the term "bug"? Sometimes unexpected stuff happens when you change something in the system.

the tower was part of the raid series released in 2014...

since it is required as part of progression, it should have been checked. yes, I work with software and I am familiar with "bugs" as well as what software changes can do. I am also familiar with a process called Quality Assurance. the purpose of QA is to make sure that 10 year old content works with the new changes, especially if it is required to progress a character through the story, like the Crystal Tower series is.

[Tsumdere]

It's not a Syrcus Tower bug, it's an ice bug.

■ Issues in the following duties wherein mechanics related to freezing are not functioning correctly, and in some cases, preventing further progression.

Syrcus Tower / Dragonsong's Reprise (Ultimate) / The Minstrel's Ballad: Shinryu's Domain / Delubrum Reginae (Savage)

[Daralii]

I got it for my first PCT roulette. A WHM ended up soloing him from 10-15% to dead by running in a circle and keeping Aero II up. Appropriately, the title they had on was Epic Hero.

[Fhaerron]

Or you could say this is a case of git gud and you failed the enrage.

Doing enough DPS you can bypass this.

Obviously since everybody and their mothers are on the new DPS jobs which they haven't mastered yet this can happen.

[Kranel_San]

This is hilarious but yeah it is probably getting an error when it tries to reference the job id of vipers and pictomancers when it targets players for the ice blocks, making it not happen xD

Squex leaves its old content in the dust and forgets about it with disdain. This might not be fixed until 9.0.

I mean, Choco medica was from what, HW? And it never, ever worked until this last patch xD

Choco medical was a skill from an optional system. You can pretty much level up from 1 to 100 nowadays without ever using your chocobo, hence the priority will be less than urgent.

On the other hand, Amon's a boss in a mandatory alliance raid to progress the story, and with a lot of people queueing for the alliance roulette to level up. It should be a high priority to fix him. Otherwise, a lot of new players will struggle to advance beyond the Syrcus tower.

[Striker44]

Absolute botch by Square Enix: How can it be that old, absolutely safe content is suddenly buggy?

This happens more frequently than you would think. Usually it's because old, absolutely safe content is viewed as absolutely safe, something gets overlooked when making a coding edit in the future, and because it's exactly the mindset that it's "old and absolutely safe" that the newly introduced bug isn't picked up until things go live. Something this significant will get fixed quickly.

[SturmChurro]

It's not a Syrcus Tower bug, it's an ice bug.

■ Issues in the following duties wherein mechanics related to freezing are not functioning correctly, and in some cases, preventing further progression.

Syrcus Tower / Dragonsong's Reprise (Ultimate) / The Minstrel's Ballad: Shinryu's Domain / Delubrum Reginae (Savage)

Yeah. Pretty much the iceblock never drops.

[Voidmage]

I just had a run were the ice mechanic worked again.
Anyone also had that or is it random now?

SE just announced it's been fixed without needing to take the servers offline (probably because it's an instance specifically).

Ah I see. Thanks for the info.

[Enkidoh]

SE just announced it's been fixed without needing to take the servers offline (probably because it's an instance specifically).