Retrograde Content

[Mega_Man_U]

Housing is just vanity. Of course, not everybody has done coil, but most people, even casuals are at end game now. Now if it took MONTHS to level up just one job, I can understand. Though, it doesn't. It takes a week.

Can we stop with the whole "it takes a week", "it takes a few days", and such? "A week" is not the same for everybody. Some people can play 8 hours a day, some of us can play 2 hours a day tops. That's a 56 hour week vs a 14 hour one. It took me almost a month and a half to reach 50 and I'm only now about to finish getting my DL gear.

[DoctorPepper]

I understand that this will not be very beneficial to mains but I'm guessing that unless you're running in full ilvl90 already, which the majority aren't, then there will be at least a few pieces from CT that are still an upgrade for you. Even if you are full ilvl90 you'll have alternative content besides dungeons to work on your alts. I know alt classes don't appeal to everybody but as you said, you can lvl another job in about 1 week if you want to but at the end of the day you'll be locked out of myth/coil gearing up your main with it. I see what you're saying but this was pretty much developed at launch and simply held back due to delays/bugs, it's not like they had to design it from the ground up after release.

[Estellios]

There are more than a few people in my FC that just reached 50 or are about to reach 50; Crystal tower is more than welcome. If by some miracle they get rid of the coil lockout, or even with the current lockout system in place, it would be nice to be decently geared on alt classes so people can sub in for different roles if necessary.

Also I may be using CT gear as an excuse to not get my Relic WHM pants because there's no way I'm running around in boxers till vanity slots come out.

[Orophin]

I knew there was a reason the OP was on my ignore list.

Anyway, everyone above mirrors my sentiments. Not everyone has blitzed through Coil so CT will have a lot to offer for those people, especially for alt class upgrades.

[Taaz]

Looking forward to doing crystal tower and working on housing myself, but I'm iffy about whether it'll be enough to hold us over till 2.2. Hopefully housing is really in depth and takes alot of time, or i'll be back to twiddling thumbs waiting for the next update

As for the population, it's pretty easy to see that the majority of people are at endgame already, simply looking at the zone density and dungeon timers clears that speculation up. The only lower level zones that are getting any action are the ones people are using to fate grind alts up, and dungeon timers for pre-50 dungeons are easily twice as long as endgame ones.

That shows 1 of 2 things
1. Fate grinding is completely out of control and even newbies are doing them to level their first class(unlikely)
or
2. Everyone is at endgame and just using them to grind alts up.

[Molly_Millions]

Even if I had all allagan gear for every job, I would still want to do CT. It'll be the first instance for more than 8 people.

[Naunet]

While I'll admit some disappointment that CT is a step behind Coil, I'm also half looking forward to it. It will be a nice in-between for those of us not yet in full myth/allagan gear (depending on the itemization, of course), and it's another thing my FC can do as a group besides just WP spams, helping folk with relic quests, and Coil.

[Ryios]

CT is 5 floors. The fift floor will probably be IL90. As time goes on CT will get more floors and BCB will get more Turns. We are likely to end up with crystal tower having 100 floors eventually.

[Molly_Millions]

While I'll admit some disappointment that CT is a step behind Coil, I'm also half looking forward to it. It will be a nice in-between for those of us not yet in full myth/allagan gear (depending on the itemization, of course), and it's another thing my FC can do as a group besides just WP spams, helping folk with relic quests, and Coil.

I'd actually argue that it's the first thing (along with housing) for an FC to do. 4 and 8 man content isn't really worthy of an FC. Imo, FCs are designed to be larger than 8 people.

[cotti]

I'm just so glad this OP isn't on my server.