Ambuscade! 1 NPC, 100 players

[Helldemon]

5. Stop allowing people to form their own parties, force them to accept scrubs /sarcasm

Seriously, people are soloing with trusts because other folks won't deign to play with them/don't make it fun.

So if you want less soloists, be more inclusive in your parties, be more fun! Teach a new player the ropes, have fun with a scrub, etc.

But given that this is the *first* solo friendly event with any relevant gear whatsoever, in AGES folks should not be complaining that soloists want to access it, especially when folks won't even let people exp with them anymore because their precious CP/hr will be ruined if they helped some folks catch up.

I love this game I just wish folks would be a little more lighthearted about it sometimes.

SE messed this up worse when they introduced the scaling system imo. I probably came pretty close to quitting around that time because of it. It basically made it extremely harmful to invite anyone that wasn't on the best jobs with the best gear. Of course there were plenty that already did this but there were groups that would invite anyone if they already had the gear/jobs/skill to win and hadn't yet hit 18. Now every person you add gives the mob an extra 100k hp so now that weaker geared person makes the fight significantly harder if they aren't geared as well as everyone else.

I've been guilty of this myself. A new ls member of an ls I'm apart of came to ruaun for an event but didn't have silt to get tribs so he farmed them for awhile, but event ended. I needed two T1 kills(Garguille and Mantis) and managed to get three others to stay and help. Anyways, we killed the Garguille and then the new guy happened to show up by the pop spot before we popped the mantis and some of the party members mentioned maybe we could invite him. I stayed silent for a minute but then decided we probably couldn't afford to, I felt bad and we won but I had to 1hr with my last pet and the others were almost out of mp(both trusts were dead, august got one-shot as soon as I popped...) so if we had invited him we would have wiped. Before this system I would have gladly invited him despite him probably not being geared enough to do the NM but now I am forced to weigh if we'll still be able to win whenever I'm a party leader and someone wants to join. They should have given reduced rewards for less people, or more rewards for people still going with 18 and not given so much hp to the NM's for each person added. They also need to work on tp feed and how much damage AoE's do.

Edit:

I don't begrudge people for preferring to bring strong jobs to content, I begrudge the fact that not all jobs have a place in content (any content).

If it was at least balanced so that WAR was good here BLU was good there, BLM good the other place, BRD excellent here, GEO needed there I would feel less fussed, but as of now there are not many jobs one can expect to feel comfortable asking to get invited into content outside of friends.

The balance is completely out of whack, and that is a real disincentive to players who might otherwise be interested in playing the game. Ironically, I think this first round of ambuscade seemed like it was acknowledging the difficulties faced by players of heavy DD jobs. And now it's like they are forgetting that lots of people are soloing on these same jobs because they aren't really very useful in most strats for relevant content.

Ya, ambuscade was great because it doesn't scale and any job is capable of doing good there, at least on the dragon. That could change with next months Low Tier NM. The gear from the tier rewards is pretty great, I found a use for all the pieces on my drg I believe, if you can manage to get the +1 gear for the job you want to play there you should be capable of doing even VD in a group provided the stats are similar(lots of acc/att/DT) of course the low haste hurts but most VD groups have 1-2 supports which should help with that. My main is drg and I have no mage jobs so trust me I know how it feels to be excluded from stuff. I've only been able to do a few Reisenjima NM's myself and only have one piece of Valor gear(legs).