Crystal Tower has to go

[Deceptus]

Making players weaker through ilv sync isn't necessary either, and will very likely be ill received. All they have to do is tune these up, and it fixes everything.

Let them be mad. In 2.X we all went through these with their mechanics intact. Sure there were a few deaths but the entire point of the ilvl sync is to make a small attempt to keep the content relevant at all times and avoid power creep.

This power creep literally doesn't affect any other content except the CT raids because the Ilvl is within reason relative to the content.

[kaynide]

Let them be mad. In 2.X we all went through these with their mechanics intact. Sure there were a few deaths but the entire point of the ilvl sync is to make a small attempt to keep the content relevant at all times and avoid power creep.

This power creep literally doesn't affect any other content except the CT raids because the Ilvl is within reason relative to the content.

Basically this;

The raids should always be tuned so the ilvl sync matches the gear they drop. That is to say, something like Crystal Tower should sync to iLVL 100 max.

Don't even need to adjust for the fact we have 3 less tanks and 3 more DPS than originally intended.

[Iscah]

That's pretty relevant. Like really relevant. They are the only life forms we are currently aware of on the 13th, with the exception of Azdaja and Zero. We are also made to assume that Golbez is a voidsent as well. The dev team even went as far as to not create a plot hole with the voidsent we encounter in the WoD dying after learning they can't die during our venture to the 13th this patch. Interestingly enough, they changed the death animation of the enemies in the WoD to match those in Troia.

None of those things seem like reasons why would need to involve a small number of specific individual voidsent in this plot, and even less reason why we would need to involve the sky pirates.

As I said, they wouldn't make you do Mhach just because it's tangentially relevant. We would have to be dealing with Scathach or Diablos directly in the plot to make it necessary to see their past story.

[raelgun]

A solid no thanks on required MSQ progression. Especially because they are generally side stories/FanFiction (Ivalice; Nier I especially want to believe the canon is that it was all just a fever dream of the character).
Aside from experiencing the story on my main, I have zero interest in ever doing any of the raids again. Just not my thing. No hate on people who like them.

And here we thought you were some kinda for the player experience esp new ones kinda person, really its never was the case now was it, here you are negatively impacting new player experience as a whole for this game ;/.

[Midareyukki]

Let them be mad. In 2.X we all went through these with their mechanics intact. Sure there were a few deaths but the entire point of the ilvl sync is to make a small attempt to keep the content relevant at all times and avoid power creep.

I don't even understand why it'd be ill-received to begin with. What if you're in a party that is absolutely not doing their best at all and you guys get to see the frog and icepick mechanic in Mateus? Or have the golem adds on Hashmal explode? A lot of people quit on the spot to this day. Just two days ago, people quit because they didn't press Surecast/Arm's Length on Deathgaze Hollow even when I pointed it out in chat. But not every player wants to leave. People leaving and quitting the raid, and making duty completion even harder than it already is for a lot of sprouts trying to go through it? That's also be ill-received. A lot of players got frustrated and are frustrated because the queues to do Ivalice and unlock Bozja are really long. I don't even know how long Dun Scaith or the NieR Raids are.

Like Deceptus said. Let them be mad. Get good. These raids are where devs test mechanics that end up showing up in the MSQ. Hashmal made everyone freak out, but no one bat an eye (kek) at Batsquatch when he used a worse version of the mechanic where it's harder to see the towers. Might as well learn about them earlier. So why is it that suddenly not having to care about mechanics is an indication of "good content"?

[kaynide]

And here we thought you were some kinda for the player experience esp new ones kinda person, really its never was the case now was it, here you are negatively impacting new player experience as a whole for this game ;/.

Who are you to tell me what I am supposed to enjoy? Or what content I am supposed to play? Or that I am required to do raids on characters I barely use?

What does my interest in doing raids, or not, have to do with what other people want or like to do? How does that stop new players from queuing for raids they want?

[BaconBits]

I queue for Orbonne Monastery several times a day for the sole purpose of dragging people into glorious Ivalice raids.

[Avoidy]

I queue for Orbonne Monastery several times a day for the sole purpose of dragging people into glorious Ivalice raids.

I used to do this too. The sad thing though, is you can't "drag in" those people who force their ilvl down to make CT happen for themselves and 23 other unfortunate souls. Since they queue in naked, they're blocked from ever getting orbonne and they're the only ones truly capable of "dragging in" unwilling passengers.
I'm going to start a project. Every time I get CT and notice some guy with 10% hp who's quickly putting gear back on, I'm going to take a picture of them. When I get enough pics, I'll make a big collage with all of their half-naked characters on it. Then I'll print it out on some quilted roll, and wipe my ass with it.

[Ralphe2449]

The main issue seems to be ilvl cheesers who just want a quick run for their daily, one way to fix that would be increasing the rewards of all other raids so even if the daily alliance raid roulette reward is big, joining some of the newer raids would have better overall rewards.

I queue for Orbonne Monastery several times a day for the sole purpose of dragging people into glorious Ivalice raids.

Nothing glorious about that, as someone who hasnt played it the FF series, the raid reminds me of only one thing, that disgusting dumb twink Ramza that hates and bullied the poor moogles, god I want him dead for his crimes against mooglekind

[Lustre]

CT is barely even content. I'd much prefer to do Ivalice or Void series but then again, as long as SE allows mentors to manipulate ilvl to do the brain dead raid itll just continue to happen