Ideas on "Old content" acess.

[UmbraRaja]

I have some ideas for accessing some level 50 content that with current duty finder matchups. tend to not happen. I wasn't around in FFXIV as the level 50 plateau before Heavensward was released. and missed out on a large amount of that content.
Reaching level 60 on more then a few jobs, I have found myself at a strange stage of the game where I'm very concerned about glamour items and having access to all of it with enough effort. The original raid of the crystal tower plotline is elusive at this point. as a majority are running Void ark, Alex Savage etc.

After giving it a lot of thought, I decided to pitch the idea forward. Perhaps, in Mor Dhona, the venders should offer the armor pieces of Labyrinth of the Ancients, Syrcus Tower, World of Darkness, and include all the gear drops of the Coils of Bahamut. in exchange for tomestones of poetics.

[UmbraRaja]

Its extremely disheartening to sit in a duty finder for over 300 minutes waiting for a raid. and IF it pops, you likely wont be getting what you came for anyways. My concern is based around how amazing the gear was from that raid, and how it is relatively inaccessible now. I'd personally like to access it, yes. but it seems like a lot of effort was put into the older content and it seems wasteful for it to be so impossible to obtain in its current state. Not because of difficulty, but from accessing the duty itself.

I've found the community responds well to things being a grind to obtain, some may not like it, but they still find themselves doing it. So making sets obtainable with a poetics grind seems plausible. However, another two options also seem viable.

[UmbraRaja]

1. Allowing a unsynced party to enter the older Raids, or allow 32 man slots in party finder. meaning people can KNOW when to expect to join duty finder for it.

2. Probably an unpopular option, but recycle the raid at lvl 60 for access to the gear again via tokens, or law purchases. or make it progress towards relic or upgrading esoteric weapon similar to Alexander Savage.

The main reason I find other ways of accessing these items important, is more for glamour, I don't think people are looking for this gear anymore for the stats provided, which from my understanding is what made it so lucrative, any of these items could be accessed simply as no attributed glamour items. while people looking for these items for actual gear/stat reasons could obtain them normally.

[UmbraRaja]

If someone in staff for a PR person could respond and discuss some of these ideas. I would love that. Also if anyone would like to follow up on suggestions or potential refinements please do so.

[Nachocreech]

Although I totally agree, regarding having 50 content available for purchase with poetics. I think (assuming) that they are holding off in doing that because their are still many players who dont have HW. As in, it would be too easy for those people to obtain the items. But then again...you can get better stuff now for lv50....

I just personally wish they gave more incentive in running those raids. Throw it in the df?

[UmbraRaja]

Hmm, still at 50 if it costs enough poetics, it still gives 50's without HW the chance to progress and gear like everyone got to when it was actually running. more often then not people go straight from 50 job gear to Market Board for heavensward low quality gear because its that much better. An incentive for people to run it seems plausible, but it would need to be something people would need consistently, not just like 3 days worth of hype then it dies again. a permanent solution seems best, but who knows, maybe they will make it tied into next step of relic.

[Pence]

No thanks. Gear is already handed out easily enough with nerfs and unsync - we don't need them to be even easier. Create a PF and find like-minded players. I constantly see T1-13 glamour farms in PF and I presume there'd be people wanting CT also.

[RLofOBFL]

Level 50 Raid Roulette would be a nice help for getting in faster w/ good incentive.


I still crave Scylla's dress for castors.

[UmbraRaja]

Managed to snag the Scylla's robes of casting. currently is mostly a dead raid. best current work around is see if there's an old content LS. I found one specifically for crystal tower on Faerie server. And literally do LOTS of shouting to fill those spots. in general, idyllshire and limsa work for my server, I lucked out since it seems lots of people were spamming it on weekends to farm lots of poetics recently presumably for relic.

[UmbraRaja]

also regarding things being too easy, the raid itself isn't bad at all. its just the queue times, with no incentive, there's no like minded people. Its a waste if old content dies like that, this will be void ark when something better comes along. also Coils are easier to organize, it can be done unsynced, still challenging, and only 8 man duty. Only reason a 32 man raid like crystal tower will run is when people are literally sitting in it all day, and every time, when it finally does pop. at least 3 people are asleep/afk. and it wait becomes longer.