Fully Customizable GC Platoon?

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I'm...rather wary. Dungeons will have to be designed to accommodate NPC's which...may make them rather simplistic moving forward especially where mechanics are concerned.

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I can't see them doing that as it would entirely absolve actually playing with real people. This is likely more an option for people who have odd hours to play or want to run old content. It won't be a focal point for them though.

What I imagined when SE announced platoons for 3.4

https://67.media.tumblr.com/a30fd98c...l1xro1_500.gif

The reality of my platoon

http://66.media.tumblr.com/9feeebb1d...zwveo1_500.gif

I cant wait I hope we can change their gear.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Dungeons will have to be designed to accommodate NPC's which...may make them rather simplistic moving forward especially where mechanics are concerned.

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Um... I don't think they could make dungeons MORE simple at this point tbh. Everything is pretty straightforward.

Pretty sure it's solo dungeons with the platoons which is separate from the traditional 2 dungeons per big patch

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Originally Posted by Derio

Pretty sure it's solo dungeons with the platoons which is separate from the traditional 2 dungeons per big patch

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This is the impression that I am getting as well

Hope this never exists, or at least not for a very long time. :/ Said it before, I'll say it again, I don't play MMOs to play with NPCs.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

Hope this never exists, or at least not for a very long time. :/ Said it before, I'll say it again, I don't play MMOs to play with NPCs.

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Is someone going to hold a gun to your head and demand you unlock and play the platoon content? If so, I question your current living arrangements.

It's silly to hope something doesn't happen when you aren't required to take part. Let them add it for the players that are interested, and don't get involved if you aren't.

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Originally Posted by Tolmos

The only way you'd be able to pull it off is if the player went in as a healer, and was extremely overgeared and very dedicated to the task. And even then, most of the dungeons would be pretty iffy.

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If they are programmed like NPCs and not like pets, being a healer would still be quite a challenge because NPCs are not affected by AoE heals or buffs lol. So us healers would essentially need to heal a group immune to protect, whom we could only heal by using single target heals. It would not be very fun. XD

ETA- I'm thinking this is going to be veeeery similar to Hall of the Novice. We're going to get short instances, in a "dungeon," to tick off of a list and once cleared, we probably won't have much motivation to do that dugeon/mission with our platoon again.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

Hope this never exists, or at least not for a very long time. :/ Said it before, I'll say it again, I don't play MMOs to play with NPCs.

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I'm sorry to disappoint, as far as we are aware it's coming in 6-8 weeks ;)