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

[Joshyuchiha]

"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......

[whoopeeragon]

We seem to be forgetting gear checks. So your 'nonsense people' will actually be capable at least gear wise to complete CT. That makes it considerably less painful.

EDIT: Not that I'm saying that this was a good move from SE; I would prefer making our own alliances, but it won't be terrible using DF as it is now with undergeared people attempting Titans etc.

[Phe]

i hope they fix it before 2.2.

was looking forward to finally do a 24 man raid with my FC and now this. =(

would be nice to know what exactly is not possible - on the technical side - that an alliance cannot be built upon entering CT.

[Namasu]

lol so much for wanting to play with more people in my FC outside of my 8-man coil static.

To dev team, I don't get why you are favoring duty finder users over FC and local server community. I don't believe for one second that you didn't have time to allow this and that this is just another excuse. This limitation feel intended to just help speed up the queue timer and help the pugs. In return, people like us who are in medium/big FC have to suffer.

Suddenly I am not too hype for Crystal Tower anymore.

[silverhope]

wow when people wanted 24 man raids im 100% sure they didnt want 8 ppl from there fc and than 2 random pug groups.. FFS SE how could u mess this up so much.. I can see alot of hard core players leaving over this..

[Pacifer]

Think is really bad , lot of fc have been preparing to raid as 24 man together , make no sense that it's no possible to enter as premade alliance .

Soon as this new spread enough it will be a huge fuss .

They better fix this before they actually release the patch .

[Joshyuchiha]

We seem to be forgetting gear checks. So your 'nonsense people' will actually be capable at least gear wise to complete CT. That makes it considerably less painful.

Gear does not make a bad player into a good player.

I have no problem with CT being available on Duty Finder, in fact I'm glad it's an option for those that can't find their own groups. However FORCING friends and Free Company members who DO have 24 members who want to run CT together to use the Duty Finder to randomly find 2/3 of the group is just a stupid decision.

[Alkimi]

Seems really stupid. An awful lot of people have been basing their FC size around doing alliance content, 8 people plus a load of pickups is not what everyone had in mind.

[Mihael_Longclaw]

I'm prepared to be called many, many terrible things, just like Praemotorium again! Ain't this fun!
Ruining one of the most amazing parts of the game, was just the pinnacle of enjoyment.

[cotti]

The first of many repeated QQ threads. The next days are going to be even harder in General Land.