4.1 Squadrons can be party members in dungeons

All this will do is breed even more toxicity.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Wonder if they can bind this within the "live" system, like if they could make it so if the group starts to fall apart if you can bring in your squadron / chocobos, at least for old content. Steps of Faith, everyone leaves and you're sick of it, and you decide to stay with that one other cool dude who also hates life as much as you do, fill the rest of the .

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If we could get them in old eight man like coil or something it would def kill alot of the bird or pony farms u see in the pf at least the pony ones if they are that good to do coil even uysnc. If you could do old primals and stuff with them that would kill alot of the parties farming them or even new players farming you would get a certain drop if you could bring in your npcs.Ha but just from doing job quest my npcs have always seemed to be pretty decent and in some cases while leveling alot stronger than your character at the time.

But I just dont see how they could make them that great tho, I honestly dont see how npcs could go past say hakku manor if so they would have to of spent loads of money to do this. Like someone mention av no way the npcs would know to eat fruit ha, are qarn haha npc gona get the heads on the platform. The more I think about it unless they spent loads of money on this feature I couldnt see them being able to go past brayflax ha.

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Originally Posted by bswpayton

Ive been seeing this going around lately, so what do you think this would do to the game. I mean I want it at least I think that I do , but I mean why chose people when you can just que into a dungeon with your on npcs? Is this overall a good or bad thing what do you guys think and of course it has been said 4.1 but could also mean much further into the expansion. But if it does happen in sb which it looks like it will what do you think it would do to overall player interaction?

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That's all find and good, but I want my retainers to go with me. I created them, they look how I want them to, they need to give us the option of retainers and/or squad members.

The squadron would probably fail.

How many times have we been in a solo msq duty, only to eye twitch at the npc who won't move out of the telegraphed aoe?

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Originally Posted by bswpayton

If we could get them in old eight man like coil or something it would def kill alot of the bird or pony farms u see in the pf at least the pony ones if they are that good to do coil even uysnc. If you could do old primals and stuff with them that would kill alot of the parties farming them or even new players farming you would get a certain drop if you could bring in your npcs.Ha but just from doing job quest my npcs have always seemed to be pretty decent and in some cases while leveling alot stronger than your character at the time.

But I just dont see how they could make them that great tho, I honestly dont see how npcs could go past say hakku manor if so they would have to of spent loads of money to do this. Like someone mention av no way the npcs would know to eat fruit ha, are qarn haha npc gona get the heads on the platform. The more I think about it unless they spent loads of money on this feature I couldnt see them being able to go past brayflax ha.

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For the ARR farms I don't think it's an issue, maybe also for HW - why I say this is because you will be so overgeared from SB that ARR primals will be a real joke, and if you want to make a farm party with someone else that's fine but you could totally do it solo. For the current tier I don't think they would be allowed or capable of doing it lol.

(So imo, I don't really care if they allowed you to easily bird farm by yourself, because honestly if you hit 70 you could easily farm by yourself anyways).

I believe they will add custom scripts for specific dungeons, which depending on how much they care will either be modified mechanics or more complicated AI algorithms to follow the dungeon rules. The much easier of course is just to have the squadron not respect the dungeon mechanics like you have to, like Egi sort of already do. I definitely think they can make them work past Aurum Vale even, but they will likely do it by cheating lol.

Your ally is going to have like 75% damage reduction :D

The squadron right now don't have jobs and they are level capped at 50. so even if they made it so you can take them with you right now, it's not like they will be useful in any Lv 60 content.

i can see them just raising their level cap to 60 or 65 so that any Lv 70 content still requires actually players.

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

The squadron would probably fail.

How many times have we been in a solo msq duty, only to eye twitch at the npc who won't move out of the telegraphed aoe?

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Which is exactly why it's not possible to take the squadron into a dungeon right now.

They're improving on the AI for the squadron stuff, so it might be slightly better in 4.1, although I still don't have high hopes for it.

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

The squadron would probably fail.

How many times have we been in a solo msq duty, only to eye twitch at the npc who won't move out of the telegraphed aoe?

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Hehe.

First time I thought they'll add squadrons able to join dungeons soon was in the last MSQ solo battle.
Because there, at the last phase, all 3 NPCs actually dodge certain circle ground AoEs.

Yes, they still eat other AoEs like the cone AoEs of the 'boss', but hey.. that's more dodging I've ever seen so far. ;)

Meanwhile, I'm just wondering why they're working on the adventurer squadron stuff when I still can't even take my chocobo into an unsynced duty (let alone synced...).

I rather summon my retainer to fight along side with me..