Stuck looking for raid for MSQ

[Karshan]

Careful the ARR story skip doesn't skip it. It skips ARR story, but Crystal Tower is annex to ARR. It only is main requisite for Shadowbringers, so it will be unlocked with Shadow book. I've been had on this topic for my reroll, it's either the raids or stuck until book of Shadow is here.

[Iscah]

Careful the ARR story skip doesn't skip it. It skips ARR story, but Crystal Tower is annex to ARR. It only is main requisite for Shadowbringers, so it will be unlocked with Shadow book. I've been had on this topic for my reroll, it's either the raids or stuck until book of Shadow is here.

Having recently used a Stormblood story skip to the beginning of Shadowbringers, I can confirm that CT is auto-completed as part of the skip now.

That said, it is absolutely unnecessary to use a story skip to get around the CT quests. The queue time should not be a problem (when not having the incorrect language settings that cause wider and ongoing issues with queue times), the raids large-scale dungeons are not hard, and the story context is important for later.

[Karshan]

Having recently used a Stormblood story skip to the beginning of Shadowbringers, I can confirm that CT is auto-completed as part of the skip now.

That said, it is absolutely unnecessary to use a story skip to get around the CT quests. The queue time should not be a problem (when not having the incorrect language settings that cause wider and ongoing issues with queue times), the raids large-scale dungeons are not hard, and the story context is important for later.

So It means I bought mine too soon on my reroll. Damn. So it really IS kind of a fraud (changing the content of the item bought afterwards)

[Iscah]

So It means I bought mine too soon on my reroll. Damn. So it really IS kind of a fraud (changing the content of the item bought afterwards)

You paid for a product and received everything you paid for.

It is not fraud for the producers to change the contents of the product for other people who will buy it in future.

What's the actual problem here, and would it be a problem if they'd simply added this story as new MSQ+dungeons in 5.3?

[Karshan]

You paid for a product and received everything you paid for.

It is not fraud for the producers to change the contents of the product for other people who will buy it in future.

What's the actual problem here, and would it be a problem if they'd simply added this story as new MSQ+dungeons in 5.3?

I meant in the sense that this book's intent is to not have MSQ ARR content block you from extensions. CT is side content, but it is ARR. That's why I think it's a grey area, even moreso that they seem to have acknowledged it since NOW, the book also unlocks CT.

[Iscah]

I meant in the sense that this book's intent is to not have MSQ ARR content block you from extensions. CT is side content, but it is ARR. That's why I think it's a grey area, even moreso that they seem to have acknowledged it since NOW, the book also unlocks CT.

That's the intention, yes. But in any case you paid for a story skip to the start of Shadowbringers, which is not gated by CT. And presumably used it at a point where CT had not yet become mandatory with the release of 5.3.

If CT was required to start playing 5.0 and the story skip didn't complete it for you - dropped you at the start of the game and said "oh sorry, you'll have to go do something else immediately first" - that would be poor planning. But that isn't the case here - they've only introduced the requirement later, and changed the product to reflect that.