-Feedback: Can we please remove the crystals breaking in dungeons on Elvia difficulty?

-Reason: Progression should be based on your gear and knowledge of mechanics, not fear of losing cystals worth more than the time and effort of attempting the dungeon. There's zero reward unless you even clear the entire dungeon so there shouldn't be loss of crystals for this. You will also have more people attempting it, I've been avoiding because of this mechanic being in place and so have others in my weekly dungeon party.

This right here, a lot of people already just reverse tag their characters to group grind areas like Oluns or solo areas like Crypt of Resting Thoughts because of the risk of losing very valuable crystals or sometimes, almost irreplaceable. I'm guessing that this was not the original intent of the tag system, but it has become a glorified system to bypass crystal loss, because no one wants to deal with it, specially with so many one shots or just the high damage monsters have in endgame zones.

Dungeons will only not give you profit, but make you lose money if you die and 1-2 of the right crystals break. If you don't lose crystals on the final boss, why implement crystal loss on the rest of the dungeon?

I agree. 

I recently gained 20+ DP and am finally at the point where I feel like I can participate in the Elvia difficulty of the dungeons (I complete the others in regular mode each week with friends and enjoy the content), but the fear of losing my crystals has put me off even trying, and I know many others feel the same.

I don't get this point. You can't loose crystals from gear if you die during boss fight on elvia. You can loose them only before boss if mobs/mini bosses will kill you. But to be honest - if you dying on mobs then for sure you shouldn't be on elvia difficulty.

It's not so much the mobs cause, if you got gear, even on Elvia, they'll be blown up relatively easily (unless birds on first dungeon, those are annoying). It's that mechanics damage from mini bosses, if something bugs out (which I've seen happen several times), it's almost guaranteed someone is gonna die. We all know dungeons can get a bit buggy at times, even before final boss.

Worst offenders of this are the first miniboss in 1st dungeon (the one you need rifles) and basilisk on second dungeon (buggiest miniboss sometimes).

You only lose crystals dying to trash though right?  I've never lost crystals or xp dying to any of the bosses or mini bosses. 

You can lose it anywhere that isn't instanced IF you're on Elvia Dungeon. This doesn't include the final bosses but does include for example, the "Krahtenn" mini boss in Valmahkea for example, and so on. Same with any other of the dungeon levels such as Sycrakea and stuff, you die to anything outside of the instanced area (final boss area), and there's a risk you can lose crystals (outfit and pet buffs to protect against this do work, but the % is very low, meaning, you can get lucky, but most likely not). Also, remember that, another party can enter at the same time as you do (this isn't an issue whatsoever just an example, since barely anyone does dungeons from what it seems. Only ever encountered another team at dungeon 2 times since Valmahkea launch). Meaning, you could get fed to mobs or just unlucky during a scuffle if one does break out.

Crystal breakage has to have been designed so that there's a constant demand for them on the CM and a small silver sink for the players. Alas, what that actually does is to deter players from taking on any risky challenges, be they angry birds or Elvia dungeons. And that because 99.9% of the time, the gains from taking part in those activities aren't worth the risk.

I'm all for making Atoraxxion a crystal-safe area. Maybe that will bring a bit more traffic to the place, seeing how there's very little incentive to go there more than once a week otherwise (well, once a week per difficulty).

Most of my guild has a static Elvia dungeon group to do them every week and most other high gear people I know outside of my guild do dungeons every week too. I really wouldn't say there's low traffic in dungeons.

Crystals only break on trash monsters, if you dying on trash monsters, probably elvia dungeons not for you.