Please invigorate players for Sortie!

[Gwydion]

Hi SE!
It is becoming increasingly difficult to find new players for Sortie. I can only assume that Players have either remained in their existing static parties or have simply moved on from Prime Weapon and Empyrean Armor +3 farming...

The Sortie event has a lot of walking, too. There is a lot of reasons why people aren't coming back to Sortie. Some helpful areas that can encourage players to return to Sortie can include the following suggestions:


Adding augments to Prime Weapons
Adding synergy and crafting items using Sortie materials
Increasing Galimaufry earned by touching the starting Bitzer after killing 8 bosses.
Provide a Gallimaufry bonus for a party that brings a certain job from different rotating lists of jobs.
Ways to end Sortie early and get 20-30 minutes back on their life.
Making "??? Earring" items sellable at Auction House or Bazaar


Please help us to invigorate the player base and make Sortie engaging again. Thank you!

[Voidstorm]

this is why i said early on that SE should make the usable items starting with: "??? Earring" able to be bazaar'd.
??? earring +1's would bazaar constantly for cheap, everyone could easily get a max augment +1.
??? earring+2's would bazaar for at least 50M with the highly desired ones going for over 100M.

Already have everything you want from the event? well, come anyway, Aminon's worth 1M per kill typically with a chance at 150M if you get a SAM+2 (idk what would go for the most, just guessing).

also, add an event where the goblin sells Old Case +1 instead every year or so. same price as NQ since it's only once per year.

[Gwydion]

I agree. Being able to sell/bazaar "??? Earring" Items is pretty clever. I hadn't thought of that before. (I've updated my original post to reflect that. Please like it).

[Gwydion]

Getting 6 people for Sortie is such a frustrating and miserable experience. I hate forcing 6-man content.

There is no balance in this game any more if certain jobs (THF, BST, etc) have no place in a Sortie setup.

Saying things like: "You don't have to do 8-bosses" (or let's face it, 9-bosses is expected these days ....it's turning the player base into a SLOW TRICKLE exodus.

[Tehant]

Getting 6 people for Sortie is such a frustrating and miserable experience. I hate forcing 6-man content.

There is no balance in this game any more if certain jobs (THF, BST, etc) have no place in a Sortie setup.

Saying things like: "You don't have to do 8-bosses" (or let's face it, 9-bosses is expected these days ....it's turning the player base into a SLOW TRICKLE exodus.

It's embarrassing is what's wrong with sortie. 6 Man content with just those people is embarrassing.

[Tehant]

I would rather go with 18 people that can't defeat A boss and go every time then with just 6 players or no one at all.

[Tehant]

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