Letter from the Producer LIVE Part X (11/11/2013)

[layoneil]

also, I can already see people dropping once they get loot if its longer wait then the DF penalty time, unless your grouped with your FC/LS and they just forcibly drop loot on you.

people actually think there's going to be 4-5 loot chests like WP and AK? i keep thinking there's only going to be 2 at the end of the entire run.

[Raldo]

Although Crystal Tower requires an alliance between three parties, when you defeat a boss, a treasure chest will pop for each party. In order to avoid confusion as to which chest belongs to your party, only your party's treasure chest will be visible, and you will lot on rewards with the seven other members of your party. If you clear the raid that will be introduced in 2.1, defeating all the bosses, roughly half of the party should be able to obtain rewards.

Translation mistakes possible, but it certainly sounds more like WP.

[layoneil]

Translation mistakes possible, but it certainly sounds more like WP.

ah so it should be 4 chests total. well i don't intend to run it with randoms that would drop out so that's good news for me.

[Lucavi]

Yup, I've had plenty of "crap" pushed onto me from not rolling on look in Wp if I don't pass on it >.>

also, I can already see people dropping once they get loot if its longer wait then the DF penalty time, unless your grouped with your FC/LS and they just forcibly drop loot on you.

People already randomly drop from slow wp/ak runs or a wipe etc, it will be no different when people get loot and jsut don't feel like going for another 30-40min for the run to end.

I wind up grabbing all of it and turning it in for company seals so I don't have to FATE grind.

[Seravi Edalborez]

I do that on my alt. I wish I could on my main but having a billion other greens and SE not fixing their expert delivery menu = orz.

[Raldo]

2.1, please look forward to it

[Viena]

Does anyone know what's up with the red bard AF shown at around 1h22m?

[Rocl]

That's the Wandering Minstrel. He's had that same getup since 1.0 and was sort of an ingame representation of Yoshi-P; I wouldn't expect to get the gear or anything.

[Therin]

ah so it should be 4 chests total. well i don't intend to run it with randoms that would drop out so that's good news for me.

Likely 3 bosses. 1 / 1 / 2 or 1 / 2 / 1 like WP.

Looks good to me. Hopefully it gives at least 50/50 philosophy/myth and the gear lockout is only once every hour or something. Considering I had to run WP over 20 times in the past two days to see a Darklight Kite Shield for my new PLD alt, I really don't want the loot lockout to be once per day. RNG drops are terrible.

[Rocl]

Does anyone know what's up with the red bard AF shown at around 1h22m?

That's the Wandering Minstrel. He's had that same getup since 1.0 and was sort of an ingame representation of Yoshi-P; I wouldn't expect to get the gear or anything.

http://xivdb.com/?item/2964/Judge's-Shirt
http://xivdb.com/?item/1890/Judge's-Bow

etc in case you were more curious days later