"Terrible Idea" does not begin to describe the CT loot system in reality.

[Ryios]

I love how people always say "Haven't you played wow, it's like that in other MMO's"

We are not playing wow here, for good reason imo. This isn't wow, it should stop trying to be. Wow sucks, horrible game. Just because other mmo's do it doesn't make it right for this one to do it. If I were to expect innovation from somewhere, I would expect it from SE/Japan, but no, same old cookie cutter "lets be like wow" attitude.

There was a time when I played wow, and everytime I played it I was thinking "Why am I doing this, I'm not having fun, I just want the BIS Trinket even though I'm not enjoying myself" and I realized I was playing the game to have the best gear and for nothing else.

Problem is I'm close to the same mentality in FFXIV. Most people don't run anything once they get the gear.

"E.g. we had a BLM, crazy good DPS, get's his last piece of Gear and he's gone, didn't log on for weeks."

And that's why CT has a loot lockout. That was SE's solution to the above problem.

But SE, that doesn't make it a good solution. Why don't you guys think outside the box and give people incentive to run CT and BCB outside of getting gear. Then you can remove the lockout because it won't matter if people have all the gear, people will still run the content.

Some ideas,
-Add dailies for Crystal Tower for each boss
-Get rid of RNG, make all the gear token based (like myth) add alagan tomes and crystal tomes
-Drop more gil from trash in CT/BCB and drop items for HIGH level crafting that drop no where else.
-Add Bonus Objectives to every fight in dungeons,
--Use a 100% unique party makeup
--Kill the boss in less than X minutes
--Kill all 3 dreadnaughts Last
-Add rewards for doing content and meeting the objectives, GC seals, Gil, Crafting Items, Materia, etc etc etc.