I'm confused, why do we have Coil but not Crystal Tower?

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

there is people beating BC already, hardcore player First companies like order of the Blue garter has a thread about their progress.

so BC is beatable but you requires Skills and patience.

here is the guildworks link if you are interested on their progress and BC info

http://bluegarter.guildwork.com/

[Req]

There are a lot of groups that are already up to stage 5 in Bahamuts coil, and in all honesty it isn't as hard as I think it was intended to be up until that point. I am on stage 4, but I heard from a lot of people that it was supposed to be a nightmare, but with only about an hour of real practice last night we almost have it down. This is the first week that we have actually gone into BC with the intent to not test out the first miniboss, and with a full day taken out with maintenance and another nearly full day taken out due to DC issues not allowing our group to run effectively we are almost on the final leg.

I have heard a lot of people say stage 5 is incredibly difficult, but they had said that about stage 2 and stage 4 as well so I guess we will see when we get there. Regardless of this though, I feel like the decision to not release crystal tower at launch because it was deemed "too difficult" was the wrong one. Yoshi seems to always be underestimating his player base and how quickly we are able to push our limits to adapt to the content he gives us. I really feel like he should have at the very least released CT and made it a stepping stone to BC that was required similar to how you have to do the 3 hard mode primals. It would give us an extra leg of content for the people that will more than likely have cleared bc multiple times before 2.1. At the very least they could tweak the difficulty at a later patch if they had released it at launch if they really felt the need to hold our hands that badly, but I feel like Yoshi would have been pleasantly surprised just like he probably is right now with all the people that are nearing the end of BC on both legacy and non legacy servers alike.

Obviously though, no one has beaten coil yet, and I have yet to look into the final turn whatsoever because im focused on getting past that last little hump in turn 4, and it may be much more difficult than the rest, I dont know. I am just confident that with at the very least the pace that the free companies on Hyperion are setting, with multiple groups in just about every major end game free company clearing levels in bahamuts coil and getting gear, we will be seeing a lot of bored people when crystal tower finally comes out.

[LoLo]

A lot of people have not even completed the story quest so the Crystal Tower will still be actively played. Lots of people have work and school as well as family to take care of so they aren't even level 50 yet. People who rush to end game will still play the Crystal Tower because it has drops that are not obtainable at this moment.

[Sebastien]

Between Allagan and AF+1, there is really nothing for the Crystal Tower to offer people in terms of gear. For anyone clearing Bahamut's Coil, it will be dead on arrival.

The only reason to do it would be in the case of not being able to get enough tokens or actual drops for alt classes and whatnot, or iLv80 crafted gear (unknown).

It really was a poor decision, on top of that the only content we currently have to do is Amdapor Keep and Bahamut's Coil.

Agreed that it was an awkward thing to do.

Yoshi's belief was that Coil was tuned SO high that no one would be able to do it anyway, without getting Crystal Tower gear. Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), many teams are well on the way to proving him wrong.

However, it is likely that what he said was correct for the majority of the player base. So keep in mind the folks that clear Coil before CT comes out are a distinct and small minority - a few hundred out of a few hundred thousand.