72 player instances make Forked Tower incredibly painful to do.

[KageTokage]

I'm not sure what their reasoning behind returning to the janky Baldesion Arsenal style queue was.

Like that instance, they pulled the same stunt where an enemy spawns outside of the tower that needs to be killed in order to make a boss beatable, except this time it's not even clearly marked on the map like a FATE/CE and is just...there.

I'd like to think that's not the sole reason they opted for that decision, but...

[Valence]

Baldesion was already problematic at release when past the first week when the first players getting inside were mostly random parties, but then slowly turned into more organized groups that harassed lone random players getting in. It grew especially bad since anybody could enter provided they were max level, and they eventually implemented the ticket system to ensure people were motivated and had put enough effort for it, but did it actually solved anything? Getting in as a random player surely felt bad enough when you got griefed once inside even though you had put forth the effort to get in. That's what happens when you make such an entrance restriction making people trickling down, and add a relatively challenging instance behind to prog through (else now it's been figured out since forever, I've done it as a grunt, you can clear it while turning your brain off just listening to the discord callouts).

Now we have the same system but the player cap makes it harder for everyone to get in. Perhaps this will help random lone players to get by in contrast, I don't know, but it seems on the other hand pretty hard to line up enough people for it now.

The reason we have 72 players now is because they designed the content so that everybody in the instance does the same thing at the same time, turning it into a zerg train, which incidentally asks for the mobs not to be a problem so that players can actually reach the next CE/fate spawn in time without dying on the way, and this also makes the area feel a lot smaller (and desolate/empty outside of the trains). CEs aren't capped to 24 people anymore. Everyone gets in, so they couldn't keep 144 players as a cap for obvious reasons. This stems from incredibly short sighted design choices to my eyes.

[itachi-otsutsuki]

It is ...baffling. It's like they literally sat together and decided based on 10 years of experience with field ops, instances and duty matching systems : 'Yeah let's pick the worst possible thing that leads to the most amount of gatekeeping'. Insane.

As mentioned before, who is this content even for? It is overall a mindless grindfest for casuals but then they add a hardcore punishing barrier for entering a weird midcore raid. It's literally incomprehensible.

[Hallarem]

Thank God the airship wasnt tied to this ocontent then

[Fatch38]

Thank God the airship wasnt tied to this ocontent then

ther is still two mounts tied to it tho

[JuicyHeals]

ther is still two mounts tied to it tho

Only mount tied to it is the demon wall. If you are referring to the shark and pterodactyl mount those can be looted from chests . But while I do like challenging content having to go through a discord is all kinds of ass

[Lami_Khatayin]

So, wait a Minute.

You all gonna tell me, that this Tower thing is a "Savage like" thing? And that you cant just queue for it like Bozja? Are you kidding me?
Im not gonna farm this shit Armor for this thing, until i get this, this content is dead expect for that hardcore gil grinders.
Man, i was so mad that we got another field op, but its actually not as bad as Eureka and Bozja, but the last thing you get with ppl is like too hard to do, so you need a fking Discord for it? Hell no, screw you Yoshi-P.

[MicahZerrshia]

It is ...baffling. It's like they literally sat together and decided based on 10 years of experience with field ops, instances and duty matching systems : 'Yeah let's pick the worst possible thing that leads to the most amount of gatekeeping'. Insane.

As mentioned before, who is this content even for? It is overall a mindless grindfest for casuals but then they add a hardcore punishing barrier for entering a weird midcore raid. It's literally incomprehensible.

Is it really that baffling tho? Their decision making process has been extremely confusing for over a decade now, which is exactly why ppl don't think they play their own game and the decision making process is an excel spreadsheet.

[Hallarem]

Is it really that baffling tho? Their decision making process has been extremely confusing for over a decade now, which is exactly why ppl don't think they play their own game and the decision making process is an excel spreadsheet.

Kinda hilarious considering how Yoshi-P mocked Blizzard in an interview saying "Dont they play their own game?" Karma is a B

[Daralii]

So, wait a Minute.

You all gonna tell me, that this Tower thing is a "Savage like" thing? And that you cant just queue for it like Bozja? Are you kidding me?

It's Baldesion Arsenal 2. Please look forward to Baldesion Arsenal 3 in another 10+ months.