Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
A better solution would just be to remove Crystal Tower as being mandatory, thus you don't end up with it being the the "only" Alliance Raid that some people ever unlock. At this point any concerns over "plot confusion" about G'raha are meaningless when he shows up in promotional material all the time and him being the Crystal Exarch is hardly some mind-blowing revelation. I would say Coils of Bahamut holds more story significance, but Square-Enix not only doesn't make it mandatory, but they purposefully keep it out of Normal Raid roulette even if you do unlock the whole thing.
That this was the original intent during Shadowbringers! You didn't have to have Crystal Tower completed when ShB was still new!

There are several moments that initially lacked dialogue options if you hadn't completed CT because you hadn't met G'raha yet. You couldn't "Call him by his name" or say "Happy to see you awake," as the dialogue options just weren't even there. The hidden scene with the Wind-Up G'raha Tia minion made the Exarch extremely uncomfortable verses a little chuffed that you had a minion of him without completing CT, too. Those were all treated as bonus moments for players that had already built a friendship with G'raha, but it was changed because they needed him in the tower on our timeline to get him into our main crew, and it made way more sense to know him beforehand anyway.