When will Forked Tower stop keeping players Hostage in instance?

[Themarvin]

This is like the 3rd or 4th time joining in there and then suddenly all the players are gone due to Forked Tower event.

The Fix is not working and is twisting the gaming experience for all, including those wanting to do Forked Tower, as forced to 'steal' instances.

This is like the 3rd or 4th time within the last 10-12 days experiencing having to have wasted time in South Horn, and I believe many others as well, yes I have toned down since maxed all the Phantom Jobs and what so ever, so even as rare as it is now that I go in, experiencing this.

It would not be impolite to ask for getting the full fix SOON, the band aid as it is nice now, but is just a patch solution not an actual fix to the problem.

Most is really not interested in doing Critical Engagements and Fates lasting like forever either, since there is no scaling system to those either.

[CNitsah]

Wait there is another problem hidden behind the entry problem? This is the gift that keeps giving.

[Jeeqbit]

1. FATEs rescale if you pull then reset them. Got to learn (some) mechanics to solo them though.

2. CEs scale amazingly, and all of them are soloable except Calamity Bound. Provided you know and can do the mechanics enough, you can solo them all relatively quick.

The whole thing is designed with solo play in mind and was future-proofed already. I love just being the last person in the instance soloing everything. It shakes things up a bit.

[AmiableApkallu]

Wait there is another problem hidden behind the entry problem?

It's not the entry system, per se. It's the fact that the up-to-48 people in Forked Tower still count against South Horn's population cap of 72 per instance. So, there can be only up-to-24 other players wandering about South Horn.

[ACE135]

1. FATEs rescale if you pull then reset them. Got to learn (some) mechanics to solo them though.

2. CEs scale amazingly, and all of them are soloable except Calamity Bound. Provided you know and can do the mechanics enough, you can solo them all relatively quick.

The whole thing is designed with solo play in mind and was future-proofed already. I love just being the last person in the instance soloing everything. It shakes things up a bit.

I think it's not so easy as DD. You always say things are easy and soloable, but you always talk from the perspective of a Warrior (or tank) and of course that's 500 % easier than other classes, who don't have constant self heal or can survive 7 vulnerability stacks.

[0blivion]

Then play tank? It's not that deep? lol.

/e: also not getting hit is mitigation! most DPS have silly personal defensives anyway
/e²: when i'm not doing tower in a tower instance i just solo CEs and FATEs. as jeeqbit said, they scale fine. SAM does like 20% of the HP bar if you're even remotely geared and using Zeninage. if you're good at dodging you physically cannot die. this especially goes for turtle, shark, lions, and... basically anything that isn't calamity bound

[yesnt]

mechanics to solo them all of them are soloable solo them all designed with solo play in mind soloing everything

Have you considered playing pretty much anything besides an MMO

[Jeeqbit]

I think it's not so easy as DD. You always say things are easy and soloable, but you always talk from the perspective of a Warrior (or tank) and of course that's 500 % easier than other classes, who don't have constant self heal or can survive 7 vulnerability stacks.

While true, you can play multiple classes in this game. You get a free tank in Gunbreaker even. It's also worth remembering that you have Phantom Jobs such as Knight or Freelancer which allows you to self-heal a lot. Also, if someone is willing to spend their time farming this content, they can probably spare a tiny percentage of that time leveling a tank.

Have you considered playing pretty much anything besides an MMO

Rarely, but I don't see the relevance. I was just saying it can be done solo. The point of the content being soloable is longevity - so it can be done in 6 years. We had these sorts of thoughts for Eureka and Bozja as well.

Eureka had a degree of future-proofing in its NM scaling but they were too much work to spawn solo and some of them were still overscaled, and you could just barely solo low level ones. Bozja's future-proofing was mostly alright, and Echo was subsequently added to make CEs easy to solo. Probably CLL, Dal and DR are the main hurdles.

[Altina_Orion]

This is like the 3rd or 4th time joining in there and then suddenly all the players are gone due to Forked Tower event.

The Fix is not working and is twisting the gaming experience for all, including those wanting to do Forked Tower, as forced to 'steal' instances.

This is like the 3rd or 4th time within the last 10-12 days experiencing having to have wasted time in South Horn, and I believe many others as well, yes I have toned down since maxed all the Phantom Jobs and what so ever, so even as rare as it is now that I go in, experiencing this.

It would not be impolite to ask for getting the full fix SOON, the band aid as it is nice now, but is just a patch solution not an actual fix to the problem.

Most is really not interested in doing Critical Engagements and Fates lasting like forever either, since there is no scaling system to those either.

CEs and FATEs do scale though? Pots can be an issue because it scales to the last time that particular pot fate was done which was an hour prior, but otherwise things do scale.

[Altina_Orion]

I think it's not so easy as DD. You always say things are easy and soloable, but you always talk from the perspective of a Warrior (or tank) and of course that's 500 % easier than other classes, who don't have constant self heal or can survive 7 vulnerability stacks.

Don't get vuln stacks?