Slightly Increase Crystal Tower Series Difficulty

[GraceHorizon]

I’ll be honest: hardcore raiders themselves usually aren’t the issue. Many of the players who go for the first clears or so (usually streamers) — people like MrHappy, for example — tend to be very chill with others and won’t rage at someone for failing mechanics. Over the past 13 years of playing, I’ve met some truly hardcore raiders, and most of them were not toxic at all.

From my experience, the real problem tends to come from the “wannabe hardcore raiders.” These are the players who rely entirely on guides because they can’t figure out strategies on their own, but still believe they’re playing perfectly. When something goes wrong, they immediately blame someone else instead of considering that they might be part of the issue. They are also impatient to get their clear to brag about it. That’s usually where the toxic behavior comes from.

I’ve had a few bad experiences with players like that in the past.

That said, the vast majority of players in FFXIV aren’t toxic. On my side, I’m always happy to help someone who is new or struggling with mechanics, and I’m glad to take the time to explain things if someone asks.

I’m not even referring to people’s behavior in high end content, I’m referring to the way they behave out and about in the rest of the game. I’ve learned over the years that if someone is wearing a title from an Ultimate, or even a mentor crown, they’re probably an asshole and it’s best not to engage with them. (It’s why I hide my own mentor crown, although I keep my mentor status up so I can give my sprout friends EXP bonuses.)

[Aidorouge]

I just try to avoid other people in general at this point because I never know how someone is going to react, even in normal content, which then becomes a problem when I need those same people to advance in the MSQ.

Like I said before, this game just doesn't function properly as a single player or multi player game, and it's not casual-friendly anyway, so I don't know what to do anymore other than unsub for now and hope they bring over FF11's Trust system some day. I would probably play FF11 its self if PlayOnline and the game's UI/controls weren't actively fighting against new people showing up.

[Supersnow845]

Since it is a mandatory AR for many players, I would suggest keeping the difficulty as it is. In that way, they would be able to prepare for harder ar raids aftewards.

How does literally never engaging with a single mechanic “prepare” you for harder AR’s later

[Veritas-Ancora]

How does literally never engaging with a single mechanic “prepare” you for harder AR’s later

Exactly. What do we even need to worry about? Too many skeletons for Bone Dragon? Barely. Final Curtain? That's cake just follow the leader.

I am still advocating for some stun mechanics so people have to learn how to use them. What better place than the Crystal Tower series?

[Reginald_Cain]

My issue isn't the speed cheesing but the garbage broken kits we have at level 50. Playing at level 50 has never felt good since maybe arr itself. Job kits should round out at 50 and feel like slight improvements later on

[SalamanderIX]

I'm not sure how much i am into these suggestions. They just seem like they'd make the Alliances take longer, not be more difficult.

Raising damage all around I'm for. But it's still the Crystal tower which you get every day, so making them longer would be worse than them being boring.

[Supersnow845]

I'm not sure how much i am into these suggestions. They just seem like they'd make the Alliances take longer, not be more difficult.

Raising damage all around I'm for. But it's still the Crystal tower which you get every day, so making them longer would be worse than them being boring.

You mean returning them to their intended length and not having one set we are so overtuned for we literally do 2.5* the expected damage the raid is balanced for

Crystal tower simply shouldn’t be this short

[SalamanderIX]

If they want to find a way for it not to be alliance roulette more than half the time while they're at it, I'll take it.
With increased tomes for doing the alliance roulette.

[Reginald_Cain]

The music in these except for ff3 boss theme put me to sleep. Even if it was challenging most people would still hate it.

It should be more engaging for sure but its also crystal tower. We really need some kind of pity reward when you get the crystal tower for roulette. Getting a cr raid 10 days in a row should give a gold certificate or something

[Veritas-Ancora]

I'm not sure how much i am into these suggestions. They just seem like they'd make the Alliances take longer, not be more difficult.

Raising damage all around I'm for. But it's still the Crystal tower which you get every day, so making them longer would be worse than them being boring.

My OP at the top didn't advocate for longer per se, it advocated for smarter. Extending the length of the Crystal Tower series wasn't the original goal of this conversation aside from Glass doing mechanics. A stun attack is smarter and more involved gameplay, avoiding death attacks is smarter and not longer.