When will Forked Tower stop keeping players Hostage in instance?

[AmiableApkallu]

Once #5 is implemented, they will have strayed fully from their original design intent of allowing random players to organically join the dungeon.

If it wasn't for the raise restriction, PUGs could conceivably power through Forked Tower (repeatedly), learn how the mechanics work, learn which phantom jobs are needed, and pass that knowledge on to future groups.

Except when someone asks, "Anything to know?" the answer wouldn't be a few short sentences; it'd be a wall of text or an entire slide deck with a raid plan. The degree of coordination required far exceeds anything seen in CLL, Delubrum (normal), and Dalriada.

[Chasingstars]

Forked Tower Blood really do be like:

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

[Brandr]

This whole Forked Tower design is so stupid... So amateurishly...

Feels like it was created by two kids challenging each other who can create "the hardest dungeon ever!"...

[TeresaFortell]

This whole Forked Tower design is so stupid... So amateurishly...

Feels like it was created by two kids challenging each other who can create "the hardest dungeon ever!"...

Having a challenging dungeon is fine. Having that dungeon behind such a frustrating entry system--and on top of that, including so many body checks--feels completely disconnected from what the content should be.

[XtremePrime]

If they wanted FTB to be meant for actual hardcore skilled, they should've just made it a separate instance that PF can queue up for outside of OC. I know they wanted it to be inside OC for narrative purposes, but they could've kept the narrative one in the OC instance for a normal mode that players can just try out on a whim.

[Alahard]

If they wanted FTB to be meant for actual hardcore skilled, they should've just made it a separate instance that PF can queue up for outside of OC. I know they wanted it to be inside OC for narrative purposes, but they could've kept the narrative one in the OC instance for a normal mode that players can just try out on a whim.

Except there wasn't enough resources, as doing both would have too high of a 'cost', so they resorted to this mess. Yay......

[Emitans]

The issues didn't need to be predicted because most of them are issues they already made with BA, which was so disliked at the time they had to make an official apology.