Why are current Alliance Raids not available for Minimum Item Level runs?

[RobynDaBank]

hey I saw someone in The Ridorana Lighthouse on primal with your name earlier today!

Sounds like a suspicious imposter to me.

[Minali]

I suppose the raids from the more recent expansions will be available for minimum item level eventually, like Crystal Tower and the War of Magi thing (no clue about Ivalice, I'm already scared of the normal one). But I don't think for the new one that's currently a big issue. Not everyone has done all the normal raids, extremes, farmed plenty of tomestones for radient gear etc. that gives them a big advantage. From 24 people that's maybe the half of it. When we're shortly before 7.0 and we are much further away from the minimum item level (when the equivalent of Ironworks/Shire/Scaevan/Cryptlurker gear is out and plenty of people have their finished relics), the differences will be more noticeable.

That said, it varies a lot of what you miss out and I wonder if the devs aim for things to be less different, when you compare minimum item level vs maximum item level. I've watched a min ILvl run of the Crystal Tower and saw a ton of mechanics that I've never experienced before. Every fight had at least two or three things that seemed "new". When I did a minimum item level run of Void Ark and the Wiping City (I think...?) it was a very different experience, mostly bosses just took longer to beat, mechanics were repeated more and some started to overlap in a way that makes things much harder. (The black circle orb thingies in the geometry fight? Not a big deal with 2 per Alliance, an easy wipe with 5 or so.) It got tougher but not even close to the CT experience in terms of "owo wats dis". It would be interesting for me to see how big of a difference the other raids would make.

[IkaraGreydancer]

whats the point with min ilvl alliance raid ?

within or without, its a casual content where its impossible to wipe

Yeah...wipes still happen in LoTA so please stop

[StriderShinryu]

Yeah that is an odd one. I can't imagine too many people using it but, still, it seems like it would be more work to exclude certain content than to have it all included. It's opt in anyways.

[shadowofchao725]

aren't you already doing it minimal ilvl?

Currently no.
A lot of the people in our first run generally had other FC members get them to ilvl 580 from crafted gear.

That's already a gigantic difference but you can also see the screenshot that I have ilvl 591 from progging savage.

Yeah that is an odd one. I can't imagine too many people using it but, still, it seems like it would be more work to exclude certain content than to have it all included. It's opt in anyways.

It's just so strange.
I mean the subset of the community I partake in for old content is very niche... But from one of the old live letters they do value having the option for players to be able to experience it.

I don't know how a super small part of this huge community can even get a community manager or dev's attention for something like this.

[MsMisato]

Min ilvl will change nothing about crystal tower. Its missing mechanics are disable, so lowering dps does nothing.

thats BS right there. I have seen mechs with a fresh group in CT that havent seen since CT dropped. The mechanics are there just its dps so fast they don't happen.