Thread: No real endgame raiding content in 2.1

Originally Posted by hamsteak

i suspect that turn 5 difficulty is purposely high right now, and will probably be tuned in 2.1

Either that or the Gear from Crystal Tower gear is meant to help make Turn 5 slightly possible?

Originally Posted by Starlord

Either that or the Gear from Crystal Tower gear is meant to help make Turn 5 slightly possible?

Well sure it will help to replace all ivl70 with ilvl80. But the patch wont come until nov/dez right? so by then u get ilvl90 from mythstones and coils - so yeah kinda mäh.

Originally Posted by Onimal

I remember when EQ was first released. 4 months into it finally was able to get level 50. There were 2 dungeons for that level. as soon as that happened they released new patches with raids. These raids required 50+ people at the start, AND THE SERVERS DIDN'T LAG.

The first day Plane of Fear opened up there was no level limit to the zone and right at the entrance was mobs that could shred you right as you zone in. The pile of bodies was so bad the GM's closed off the zone and actually helped get the bodies out. Raids would form outside the portal and when it was time the tanks would zone in before the healers and you prayed the tanks got there first and did not DC. It was not instanced so your guild had to sign up for certain days and hope that the non english speaking guild did not clean out the zone before hand and no LAG? Really? back in the day of 56k? No lag? Take those damn goggles off please.

Originally Posted by Onimal

These raids required 50+ people at the start, AND THE SERVERS DIDN'T LAG.

That's because the graphics were so crappy there wasn't much stress on the servers. Then game graphics improved and server stability went down. (MMO in general)

Originally Posted by Rhas

That's because the graphics were so crappy there wasn't much stress on the servers. Then game graphics improved and server stability went down. (MMO in general)

Servers don't render graphics. ARR would lag just as bad if the whole game was wireframe stick figures.

Hmm I see this thread has died out, was actually not meaning to revive it, but want to leave few notes here.

To the people saying that Crystal Tower will be "dead on arrival", I agree with you on terms of endgame gear progression, IF it will drop only Lv 80 gear and then IF those players are wearing full Lv 90 gear and have done Bahamut's Coil, THEN it is dead on arrival for those few select players.

But you are forgetting two major things:
1) It will drop Lv 80 gear which you can spiritbind and make Materia from.
2) It will most likely drop something like Mythology stones.

So I foresee even the uber top geared players still doing Crystal Tower.