Crystal Tower Queues finally DEAD

[angienessyo]

I will just stop doing alliance roulette. It isn't worth it to me unless I can finish it in 15 minutes or less, being stuck in Orbonne for 45 minutes does not sound like a good time. I think many of us who strip down to just get CT won't do alliance raid at all anymore, so enjoy those queues

What Orbonne still takes 45 minutes?! I haven't seen an Ivalice raid take more than 15-20 minutes throughout the entirety of Endwalker. LotA/WoD is where I regularly see people actually wipe. I get a LotA/WoD with 30+ minutes in progress very often in Mentor Roulette.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The only one I regularly see take longer than half an hour is the Tower at Paradigm's Breech, because the bosses are HP sponges with multiple untargetable phases.

[Fhaerron]

I think we're still going to see a lot of lvl 50 AR with the influx of new players 7.0 will bring (Xbox players too, of course).

[DayHealer]

It isn't worth it to me unless I can finish it in 15 minutes or less, being stuck in Orbonne for 45 minutes does not sound like a good time.

Gotta spend those 30 minutes roleplaying in Balmung or decorating your house I bet.

[Silver-Strider]

It won't do a whole lot but it's a start.
Now make the ilvl synch much tighter and make jobs not boring as sin at lower levels.

[Brightamethyst]

There are two issues here:

1 - CT will still be the most common raid. It's the lowest common denominator. ilevel cheese or no it only takes one player below level 60 or with no other raids unlocked to toss the other 23 into CT. It will make other others a bit more common, but CT/Mhach will likely still be the majority.

2 - The reward structure that leads people to ilevel cheese in the first place isn't changing. Who wants to risk getting Copied Factory when you could do a quick and brain dead LotA for the exact same rewards?

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

There are two issues here:

1 - CT will still be the most common raid. It's the lowest common denominator. ilevel cheese or no it only takes one player below level 60 or with no other raids unlocked to toss the other 23 into CT. It will make other others a bit more common, but CT/Mhach will likely still be the majority.

2 - The reward structure that leads people to ilevel cheese in the first place isn't changing. Who wants to risk getting Copied Factory when you could do a quick and brain dead LotA for the exact same rewards?

See, it isnt an issue that CT pops the most frequently - at most Id say it needs to be retuned to Endwalker potencies.

But knowing that out of all possible cases increasing the chance, the iLv manipulation is being addressed matters infinitely more.

Nobody minds going into ARR raids for a sprout. But I am betting kuponuts that those who hate zoning into the raid and one or more people suddenly change in HP values when freshly entering the duty will be quite pleased.

It was about the"why", not "how often".

[Atelier-Bagur]

Honestly, at least we can finally put the ilv cheese thing (still hated how we just called this. Sounds stupid) to rest, since it all depends on your level.

[Reimmi]

This will absolutely reduce how often it happens, it'll still be the most common just cause it's mandatory for story, but there was a huge amount of players i could tell were cheesing every time this raid came up.

[Absimiliard]

I for one can't wait to see Thunder God Cid pile up enough corpses to reach heaven.