Crystal Tower Preview (lodestone post)

[Xatsh]

That's the thing - you won't be running with a solid because you'll run with your 8 people then queue up with 16 people and Yoshi doesn't want you to do CT efficiently since it has to keep people busy until 2.2 when coil gets expanded since coil is on farm status for many FCs.

I do not think he doing it to slow people down. He is just 100% focused on the ultra casuals and doody finder and 0% focused on guilds which is completely 100% backwards for endgame. Endgame should almost force you in guilds for all group content, atm he seems to be doing everything possible to break up guilds which is absurd.

His decision will more or less kill off what ever community is left. Because people at endgame will slam and troll people who enter this with anything besides relic and full darklite. At this point potentially relic +1 and some allegan. People in serious endgame guilds are not going to want to carry people through this content who are extremely gimp for endgame (< Ilvl 70). So I hope the devs are prepared for the hell that is going to ensue with this content.

Yoshida needs to completely forget the stupid dudy finder for endgame... it has no place there. Keep it for the leveling process, pvp, and 4 man raids only.

[ashikenshin]

I do not think he doing it to slow people down. He is just 100% focused on the ultra casuals and doody finder and 0% focused on guilds which is completely 100% backwards for endgame. Endgame should almost force you in guilds for all group content, atm he seems to be doing everything possible to break up guilds which is absurd.

isn't endgame coils? weren't endgame guilds complaining about not having anything to do in 2.1? why would people in full allagan want to do this if it's not progression? and if you are doing this in full allagan aren't you going to carry people anyway since ilvl required for this is 55?

You are expecting people to ask for relic and full darklight on duty finder groups? do people do this in wp or ak? never seen this happen. Not even in garuda and ifrit which would be the equivalents.

oh but these forums....

sky is falling...

[Lstkaws]

I really like these sets. I think some of these pieces will look good with the ilvl90 gear i am acquiring for mnk and brd. The whm set looks good as well, so I am pretty excited.

[Naunet]

So, is that iLv80 gear for all the Jobs? From left to right; Caster, Bard, Dragoon, Monk, Healer, Tank? Because... Well, ouch... I could accept Darklight being reskins of each other, but Crystal Tower gear? That said, I love Monks set (assuming it is Monks set), and the Bard gear isn't too bad. Dragoon being a blue version of Bard though?

I do agree; I had hoped for actual unique job sets. There's so little variety in armor as it is. :/

Though, I do like the looks of the healer and MNK sets. Kind of jealous that MNK gets their own unique look. xD And no more cowl, thank the lord.

These won't be dye-able, will they?

Of course they won't be. You mean you want to customize the armor your wearing? Ridiculous!

[ashikenshin]

I really like the monk and healer sets. Glad I leveled my monk. Not excited at all about the bard one. I guess I'll buy the myth chest and the rest will be CT.

[Sylve]

Not really crazy about this; if you run with a solid group, there's a good chance the 2nd tank (and possibly 2nd healer) are unnecessary given what we've seen groups accomplish in other instances. Until they allow pre-made alliances, I don't really see a workaround.

Take a full party of ilvl 70s with no Relics into Titan HM and tell me you can solo heal that.

Of course you can do things like solo tank or solo heal things when you over gear them, and yes, when you're in full i90 in T1 coil, you are actually over gearing it, since the T1 was designed to be cleared in i70 gear.

[Freakiie]

isn't endgame coils? weren't endgame guilds complaining about not having anything to do in 2.1? why would people in full allagan want to do this if it's not progression? and if you are doing this in full allagan aren't you going to carry people anyway since ilvl required for this is 55?

You are expecting people to ask for relic and full darklight on duty finder groups? do people do this in wp or ak? never seen this happen. Not even in garuda and ifrit which would be the equivalents.

oh but these forums....

sky is falling...

Yes, except for the part where you can make your own groups for all that stuff. In CT no matter what you do you're still going to be saddled with 2 completely random DF groups.

Take a full party of ilvl 70s with no Relics into Titan HM and tell me you can solo heal that.

Of course you can do things like solo tank or solo heal things when you over gear them, and yes, when you're in full i90 in T1 coil, you are actually over gearing it, since the T1 was designed to be cleared in i70 gear.

Actually, there was a FC that solotanked Coil entirely. Also the difference between Titan/Coil and CT is that there weren't already tons of people outgearing the content before it was even released.

[Yurikitty]

Love the monk gear, not happy about the recolored healer set. Its allagon/battle mage in white! Oh boy! SE hates healers, our gear is ugly and it makes me sad.

[Sinth]

Why would SE model armor on a lalafel? You can't even tell what it looks like. Could be wearing level 15 gear, no one would know. Also, the DRG, BRD, and whatever that roegadyn is wearing all seem quite bland.

Good job on the monk & blm sets though, they look nice and fitting for their jobs.

[Laifon]

I like the designs a lot!