Can't make a full premade for Crystal Tower...

[Arkista]

This does suck. My LS leader made a LS for CT and now there will be no point in it.

[Xatsh]

Edit: You're an elitist asshole as well.

Lol no, but my job as an endgame guild leader is to advance my guild. Not be forced to do charity work with people who honestly still wipe to Titan for 4hrs at a time.

[Ramzal]

"Q10: Will you be able to form your own alliances and enter Crystal Tower?

A10: In patch 2.1 you will not be able to form your own alliance. You can enter with a party of eight."

Dumbest thing ever. I do not want to be forced to use the duty finder to find the other 16 people. Why in the hell wouldn't you be able to enter with your own pre-made group of 24 (or alliance of 3 8-man parties). After hearing this I'm considerably less enthusiastic about Crystal Tower since now you'll have to deal with the nonsense of random people in Duty Finder......

I maybe the only person in the world who is cool with this. XD I don't mind it, but if they were to make it so that you CAN form your own 24 person alliance that's fine too.

Go with the flow~(o_o)~

[Mamakat]

Such a bummer We were really looking forward to doing CT as a FC because we're always all split up doing different things it was something that we could do together. /sigh

I ~totally~ understand making it DFable for people who aren't able to find enough people to enter or their schedules don't match up with their FC etc... but not having the option to take a premade alliance... I'd be willing to wait for 2.1 personally for this to be possible. But that's just me.

To quote my kids "aww pickles!!"

[Sylve]

Actually at this point yes delay CT and or the patch 1 more week and get it in properly allow FC to do what FC want to do. Many have a distaste for Duty Finder and have from the getgo this is just more SE crap on not listening to a vast majority of there playerbase. Need I remind people of the roaming HNM/Open world topic they so diligently swept under the rug.

Or you and other FC's who *can* muster 24 people for CT can just not do it until they add the additional premade capacity, So that people like me, in a smaller FC, can still enjoy the content.

You seem to be forgetting that you need a premade 8 to queue (if i understood the Letter correctly), which means the only other people in there will also be in premade groups using voice comms or properly communicating via party chat.
AFAIK, its not going to be possible to just queue up and get 23 random players mashed together and thrown in.

And with the Item Level restrictions in place on the Duty Finder, it will be Impossible to have a party in there that is 'undergeared', you will only get people in correct gear for the Dungeon, or people that are overgeared for the Dungeon.

[Starfox71rt]

No, he just values doing stuff with his guild over that of random strangers.

And he values his time. Again, an overgeared group could potentially have long wait times if the other groups are not up to par which will cause MASSIVE frustration with this content.

[CygnusMajor]

This is the most disapointing news I have seen since this game launched. I didn't make an FC so I could play with a bunch of pugs. Please change this so we can alliance before entering. I want to do CT with my friends.

fixed, damn cell phone posted before I was finished

[Iselore]

Not adding anything that hasn't already been said, I just want my voice added to the collective.

Change your ways Square Enix, let a full 24man FC run what meager end game scraps you've thrown us for 2.1

[Pseudopsia]

This is really good for my FC that is small and doesn't have enough people to fill a second coil group. However, If I prepared my FC having 24 people ready to do CT once it came out I would be mad too.

I know some runs will be bad or good depending on who we get matched with, this is interesting to me.

[Sixmp]

This is how it should be..

Joining a pug will not do that at all. IN XI yes in earlier days we did that too before we had enough people to run it with just our guild. But you know what it was a group, we did it every week twice a week.

THAT IS WHAT WE WANT. We do not want to be forced to party with complete strangers, we want to option to form groups with friends. Form allys with people we see everyday. Play with people we know. If I get put in a party with players from Excalabur or another server guess what I will probably never get to play with them again in que or at least very rare chance. This will do nothing to better the community.

The thing is though the 2 Linkshells were 2 different ones each time lol. It was basically like a PUG. We did eventually end up with a stable setup but it was PUG setup for months and it worked well. I do understand everyone's complaint. It should be an option but it probably wont be as bad as everyone fears... I hope