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    rainichan's Avatar
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    Caelia Silverarch
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    Balmung
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    Black Mage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Wissp View Post
    Yes, I did Sycrus MINE a while back and got to actually SEE the mechanics for the fights. The Glasya fight was wild! Soooo much bouncing around! We had discord chat and people were laughing and having a ball with all that craziness.

    Too bad newbies will never see that, well unless they are lucky enough to get into a MINE run of ST.
    THEY MASSACRED MY BOY, Glasya was truly the most fun raid boss in the CT raids, Scylla and Amon were the ones that could wipe everyone (though with the stat squish her Flare hits a lot harder if you're not in a puddle which I appreciate) and the panic on Xande's meteor phases was real. I always get a tinge of panic when I see people hitting the middle one and not the smaller ones lol. I do enjoy Syrcus over the other two, but the fun is really diminished with no real threat or bite to the fights anymore.
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    Zordiark Darkeater
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    Omega
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    Dark Knight Lv 90
    My only issue with Crystal Tower is that its not Voice acted.
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    Limited and Exclusive content that gets removed from game is Wasted Content and Developer time in the long run.
    Change my Mind. (You can't)

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    Alpha Lupi
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    CT raids are also balanced before item sync was synced to HQ values. It's just been progressive been getting weaker since then. It just needs a lower sync value to bring back it's mechanics.
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    Xenahawk Soulphire
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    Fisher Lv 90
    Personally i like the crystal tower raids. And i havent noticed anyone drop getting them myself and can only recall once a group i had complain about getting it. But thats my own personal experience.
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    Ameela's Avatar
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    Ameela Trussa
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    Warrior Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
    Crystal Tower is your intro to alliance raids. It's fine as it is. People just hate it because of roulette cheesers.
    I disagree with this completely, and to be honest I disagree with the way they've approached old content in general outside of dungeon reworks.
    Each duty early on should be teaching you things and preparing you for what you'll find up ahead, but as it is most of the content is too braindead for you to learn anything other than tank and spank (I think it's telling that those beginner guide videos they put out didn't even mention the bubbling grate mechanic in the Sastasha boss).
    Having stuff be somewhat challenging at that point for alliance raids should be a thing so you actually get used to those kinds of duties and stuff like alliance specific mechanics right away.
    There should be a gradual escalation of challenge as you go through the game, but right now it's all basically the same base level of challenge for 80% of it and then it only starts escalating once you get to current expansion content.
    Even Dun Scaith and Orbonne are a joke nowadays.
    It's not like it'd put anyone off to have this stuff be hard anyway. Back when this content was new and somewhat challenging it was also the introduction of alliance raids for a lot of people, just because they're the first of many now shouldn't mean it needs to be changed or casualized.
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    Ameela Trussa
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    Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
    Just drop the ilvl back to like 60 so we actually see mechanics again and it fixes 90% of the problems

    The crystal tower raids aren’t actually that easy ilvl bloat just destroys them because the game throws poetics at you so everyone has ironworks at a minimum
    Honestly even with a better ilvl sync it might be a bit too easy considering just how much has actually changed since then.
    It's not just bloated gear stats, direct hit replacing accuracy gave you a huge damage boost in old content, and potencies have been increased tremendously over time too.
    Take Ninja's basic 3-hit combo for example:
    When it first released its potency was 150 > 200 > 320
    Now it's 220 > 320 > 440
    There's just been power creep all around that's left old content in the dust.
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    Andreas Cestelle
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    Jenova
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    Scholar Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Ameela View Post
    Honestly even with a better ilvl sync it might be a bit too easy considering just how much has actually changed since then.
    It's not just bloated gear stats, direct hit replacing accuracy gave you a huge damage boost in old content, and potencies have been increased tremendously over time too.
    Take Ninja's basic 3-hit combo for example:
    When it first released its potency was 150 > 200 > 320
    Now it's 220 > 320 > 440
    There's just been power creep all around that's left old content in the dust.
    I agree with that but if you drop the ilvl to 60 then you will see daybreak and you will see glasya labolas change the floor black and you won’t be able to skip mechanics so fast on Amon he may as well not have any

    The raids will still skew easier but they will become challenging enough they actually do something, much easier than a full on rework which had to be done for something like prae or castrum because those fights just legit didn’t work in 2022
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    Oscarlet Oirellain
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    Jenova
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    Warrior Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Ameela View Post
    Honestly even with a better ilvl sync it might be a bit too easy considering just how much has actually changed since then.
    It's not just bloated gear stats, direct hit replacing accuracy gave you a huge damage boost in old content, and potencies have been increased tremendously over time too.
    Take Ninja's basic 3-hit combo for example:
    When it first released its potency was 150 > 200 > 320
    Now it's 220 > 320 > 440
    There's just been power creep all around that's left old content in the dust.
    The last time I did it with ilvl sync (in Shadowbringers) it was a decent challenge, many people died and mechanics had to be done, but some of the bosses did die a little earlier than desired. The first boss in Syrcus has a lot of mechanics but even after everyone has died, you can have the tanks finish it off and that probably shouldn't happen when most of the alliance failed the mechanics. I would like for all ARR content to be adjusted to account for stat and potency changes, but syncing to minimum would still be a big improvement if we want the mechanics to matter.
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    In other news, there is no technical debt from 1.0.
    "We don't have ... a technological issue that was carried over from 1.0, because ARR was meant to kind of discard what we had from 1.0 and rebuild it from the engine."
    https://youtu.be/ge32wNPaJKk?t=560

    Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
    Want to know why new content will never last more than 20 minutes? Full breakdown:

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    Cordelia Emery
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    Coeurl
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    Marauder Lv 82
    I feel ever since Aglaia has been added into raid roulette, I've been getting less CT raids lately.
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    Avi Taro
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    Behemoth
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    Bard Lv 100
    It would be neat if any of the mechanics in there actually mattered at all. As it is there's only a handful of things that'll wipe you, and most wipes I do see are people not paying attention or just plain not bothering to do that handful of mechanics. Most fun I've had in any of them recently was when like 2/3 of the raid got disconnected a while back and we had to actually figure out the fight to get anywhere before people started reconnecting.

    Otherwise it's a snoozefest unless somebody sprints fast enough to close the atomos doors before 4 people from alliance C can get to the room or people fail to notice final boss dude casting his insta wipe
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    "Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can." - Elyas Machera, The Wheel of Time

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