Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
It does need a normal mode for an instance that caps off the zone where players organically join together to tackle that final challenge. That also should be where the field notes and TT card are. Field notes should never have their only accessibility locked behind optional, non-story content. At the very least they're going to have to make those available by other means in the future if they don't create a normal mode.
When I discovered the nature of FT, it eliminated any interest I had in running the other OC content. As far as I could make out, the only reason to level phantom jobs and grind currency was to get into FT. I would have stuck with it if a normal mode of FT was the effective capstone.