Quote Originally Posted by Karshan View Post
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.