Solution to Crystal Tower Loot Lockout Timer (Promotes Balance, Promotes Duty Finder)

[Zfz]

The problem is the filler level i80.

The problem is that iLv80 is not filler.

Crystal Tower is designed for the casuals as the ultimate casual end-game content.
Binding Coils is designed for the hardcore as the ultimate hardcore end-game content.

You can do both, or only either. It's only natural that people who have BC on farm find no reason to do CT---the content was never designed for them in the first place.

Please note how content will be updated: BC in 2.2, CT in 2.3, BC in 2.4, etc.

So what you have here is that CT will always look like filler because you will always be "missing a tier of CT" when you tackle the new BC content.

Either Square Enix is so stupid that they repeat the same "mistake" every other patch, or it was never a mistake, but a design choice to begin with.

Binding Coils and Crystal Tower are two parallel lines of progression, you can ride both, but please do not mistake them for one single line of progression. You're free to treat them as one, but remember they are designed as two.

Once you accept that, then the loot lockouts make perfect sense.


Obviously, there's always the "out-of-box" solution: to gather enough community momentum to force SE to merge the two paths of progression into one and reschedule their patching order.

[Churchill]

Binding Coils is designed for the hardcore as the ultimate hardcore end-game content.

God I hope not.