CT is dead, please fix

[Nadirah]

Can we get back to the merits/detriments of the suggestions in this thread rather than bitching back and forth about what the original design of CT was, who is or is not a shitty player, or who's virtual peen is bigger?

Allowing unsynched groups I still think is the best option here because we don't really need another roulette, roulette bonuses for outdated content feels like bribery, especially considering that if you want to run it, you can queue for it already. People just don't want to do it.

Doing it unsynched gives those that actually want to bother with it the ability to muscle through it with the extra gear and abilities you get from leveling.

I'd also suggest adding the ability to do unsynched through duty finder rather than requiring a premade through PF, because face it, if you've tried to make a PF for it and can't... then there's just not enough folks on one realm wanting to do it.

[seorin]

Allowing unsynched groups I still think is the best option here because we don't really need another roulette, roulette bonuses for outdated content feels like bribery, especially considering that if you want to run it, you can queue for it already. People just don't want to do it.

It's less bribery and more giving people an additional reason to run it. Battle on the Big Bridge is a good example of a fight that people often enjoy running but still tend not to unless there's some reason. A reason is needed because everybody has goals to work towards, and they tend to ignore things that don't help them meet those goals. It's the same as players finding the fastest way to do something and then doing only that even when it's not fun. Strange as it might seem, the lack of players running CT is not evidence that people don't want to run it.

[Krylo]

roulette bonuses for outdated content feels like bribery, especially considering that if you want to run it, you can queue for it already. People just don't want to do it.

I enjoy CT. In fact, CT 2 was how I farmed most of my light because hitting Garuda with a stick for days wasn't fun at all.

However, with HW out, CT gives me nothing of value for my time. It'd slow down my ablity to level alternate classes/get esoterics/do crating/whatever else I want to do with 0 pay off. As long as there's no reason to do it, myself and many others who may enjoy it, just aren't going to. Which creates long queue times, which makes it even more of a waste of time to queue for it, making people in my boat even less likely to do it and make queue times even worse. Etc. etc.

Unsynched would do nothing to fix this because it wouldn't make CT suddenly provide benefits or rewards that make it worth the time away from doing other things, and, therefore, would do very little to alleviate it for veterans who want to play it again--and even less for new players who want to experience it the first time in anything resembling how it was intended to be played.

Adding unsynched along with other things is fine, but it's just straight up not a fix for dead content.

[Voldemort]

I would like the option for undersized parties to do Crystal Tower, but how would that work?

If the content was intended for 24 level 50s, I doubt 8 level 60s will pull the same weight...


And I wish to redo the CT events for glamour. Some of the Demon armor is cool, and some free company members long for the Amon Hat to complete their machinist outfits.
And the Puff of Darkness minion....

[bardaboo]

It's quite a significant increase in stats. I've completed brayflox hm and Isle of Umbra, on warrior. Mobs hit less hard, requiring less heals... less heals equals more dps. As long as there's enough people to deal with standing on pads and such, it's fine.

[Kaiser-Ace]

I still say making the mobs in the LoA, ST, and WoD drop Exp would be a good motivator for cuing it. With as many enemies as you fight in those raids you could probably get at least one level per run if Exp droped there.