Quote Originally Posted by hydralus View Post
I don't think this is true. I've been doing fine without touching forked tower. I have like over 100 hours in OC by now, and there's plenty of people who are just hanging out in there just to do it. To me this is like saying there's no point to the rest of the game unless you plan on raiding. Would it be nice if there was another tier of forked tower that was more pickup friendly? Of course. But really, it's one dungeon. People skip optional dungeons all the time and nobody really makes a big deal of it.
The problem is nothing goes anywhere without forked because everything is basically a dead end without it leading to an endless treadmill that goes nowhere

Levelling phantom jobs? - so you can get mastery stacks to do the same fates but do a little more damage
Going for arcanauts gear? - +2 is locked behind forked anyway so you are kinda stuck halfway
Something to break the endless fate chain? - you guessed it…..forked

What goal are you are going for without forked, where does OC go? Everything just feels pointlessly futile without that piece to cycle the content. The game had a defined endgame without raiding, OC has no goal without forked or a CLL equivalent, it just sorta exists