Crystal Tower Loot System - What needs to be done

[Rekujen]

Hi,

The current loot system in Crystal Tower doesn't work, simply because there's no reason to continue the raid if your item drops. What am I talking about? here's an example for a better understanding.

This happened last night.

Boss Dies

Alliance A receives Tank armor
Alliance B receives Healer armor
Alliance C receives Healer armor

Alliance A's tank wins loot, leaves the raid.
Alliance B's healer wins loot, leaves the raid.
Alliance C's healer wins loot, leaves the raid.

This is a problem and obviously wasn't thought out before releasing the content... I understand your reasoning behind 1 item per weekly lockout, you want the content to last long before 2.2 is released, this is completely understandable and I'm not arguing that method.

What I don't appreciate is the fact that there's nothing stopping people from leaving once they receive gear... what's waiting for them at the end? 50 mythology... that's not enough "reward" to keep people hooked into the raid after they have their item.

Here's my suggestion, which in my honest opinion would fix most of your problems.

Keep the loot system in place, you want CT to last for months.. that was obvious.

Suggestion

Add Crystal Tower to the Duty Roulette system, this can be completed once a day.

Rewards

10,000 Gil
200 Philosophy Tomes
100 Mythology Tomes
1 RANDOM Crystal Tower ilvl 80 piece of armor

Reasoning

What!? that's way too much... all that myth, all that gil... and a random i80 armor!??

First of all, this is "DAILY" which means you can't spam it and cap your myth this way.. if you did, it would take 5 days if you were doing this and nothing else.

Secondly, this whole thing is to keep players in the raid so what better way to keep them enticed by giving them a worthwhile reward waiting for them at the finish line.

This is our goal, we are trying to prevent players from leaving once they receive their loot, remember? 10k gil is pretty decent, giving a RANDOM i80 armor means they still have a chance to win something for their class or it will go towards their other classes, making the journey worthwhile in the end.

This is my 2c, feel free to add to it.. even if my suggestion doesn't go through, which is completely understandable :\ I still think something (anything) needs to be done about CT loot system.

Cheers.

[Darkshneider]

This suggestion is amazing.Its good to see a post like this in all the sea of whines.Send it as an email to them,its looks pretty good

[Ri_ri]

As long as you couldn't get repeated gear, seems like a good idea.

[Teleniel]

7 extra il80 pieces a week even if random is a bit much. You also have to account that the Myth reward doesn't help players who have reached their tome cap from other sources.

[kingatlas]

Although I see where your coming from, if someone leaves, they are usually replaced fairly quickly.

And the new person needs gear anyways. So having the person who just got their item dip, help other players get theirs.
I know I always click, join in progress on CT when I do mine. I prefer to not have to start at the beginning.

[Rekujen]

7 extra il80 pieces a week even if random is a bit much. You also have to account that the Myth reward doesn't help players who have reached their tome cap from other sources.

I thought about that, but honestly 7 is fine considering it's completely random and given the number of classes we have in the game I don't think it'll be an issue. Also, this will help from spamming the same dungeon over and over just to cap your myth, with this new daily it would add variety to the myth farming... unless we change my suggestion to a "weekly" instead of a "daily"? I guess that could work too

[LunarEmerald]

Relying on rng for loot? No thanks.

[Ryios]

Or they could make the loot lockout per class tier of gear,

Tank - 1 lockout
Healer - 1 lockout
Melee DPS - 1 lockout
Caster DPS - 1 lockout
BRD Dps - 1 lockout

etc

Then at least once we get our 1 main spec piece, people would stick around at the chance at getting something on greed for another job.

[Nahara]

Relying on rng for loot? No thanks.

To be fair to the idea, you have to compete against the RNG for loot as it is now anyway. You could do a dozen runs from start-to-finish and not see the item you want. The end result of this, I suppose, is just to give you some consolation prize of something that MIGHT be useful to you at the end of a run.

[Rekujen]

Relying on rng for loot? No thanks.

You mean how literally every "boss drop" relies on RNG anyway? the idea behind my daily isn't to obtain your gear that way, it's once a day... think of it as a "bonus roll" for completing the raid. Reminder, it's "daily" so you won't be farming it for hours.