Unlocking the Crystal Tower!

This is currently a very long boring process to be honset. I finally unlocked it after 6 hours of grinding but to get the 24 man raid dungeon unlocked has been worth it... I hope.

There are 4 quests which you need to do to unlock the Crystal Tower. The first you need to get from Mor Dhona and is situated right next to the crystal. The NPC will guide you to the easterly town in Mor Dhona where you get the other quests from.

The quest explains that you need to get past the 8 stone protectors which each pair has a different element. These elements have a barrier preventing you from passing through to the Crystal Tower. The barriers can be destroyed by using the correct crystal to match the element on the protectors. The 4 elements come from the primals you might have destroyed already, Ifrit (Fire), Garuda (Wind), Titan(Earth) and Lethiathan (Water.) 

To collect these 4 Crystals you will need to complete special FATES. The first two take you to the U'Ghamaro Mines and Sapsa Spawning Ground. This is where the LONG wait takes place. Each fate at the moment spawns randomly but in my experience they take between 1 to 2 hours to spawn. Then once you have gained the credit you can turn in for the next quest.

The next quest is much like the 1st but takes you to the other 2 locations of the beasttribes. The locations you go to are Zahar'ak and Natalan. These are 2 more fates which you get a crystal for each.

Once you have all 4 crystals the NPC explains they cant be used in there current state, they need to be refined with special dust. This leads us on to the next 2 quests. The first takes us to the Goldsmiths guild in Ul'dah where we meet Biggs. The second takes us out to where DD normally occurs in which we save Wedge from a group of bandits. He has managed to steal some of the rare essence we need.

Once you have the first 2 you can turn them in for a reward. This then leads us to the last 2. We get these from first finding a rotting corpse in the river but discover someone has already beaten us to it. The mystery voice explains you can find the other essence we are looking for near Fallground Float but there will be a few mobs to kill to get it.

Once you have got the 3rd essence you then are rewarded with the 4th by the Mystery voice. He praises you for your hard work and decides to give you the 4th and final essence neeeded to refine the crystals.

You can now turn in and watch a cutscene for destroying the 4 barriers protecting the Crystal Tower.

The Crystal Tower is now unlocked and you can enjoy the 24 man raid! A word of caution though is that you can only get 1 piece of loot per week from the Crystal Tower. This may seem a bit harsh but I think it is implimented so that people dont just get everything they want in the first week.

Good luck on your adventures.