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I'd like SquareEnix to consider updating the "companion" systems.
-Firstly, the Chocobo is due a level up, and I like feeding it system, not just experience.
-Secondly, great job on allowing NPC to help with dungeons to eliminate DPS downtime.
I'd like SquareEnix to consider a 1-4, squad team for field experience and/or minor content. Like PVP(NPC teams). NPC would have to level up both in dungeon and/out with same experience rule for zones and synching.
Problem is, there's no real place for the companion system to go right now. Unless you're trying to solo an A rank or a higher level FATE or something, nothing out in the open world is hard enough to require NPC support. I could see them maybe letting us reskin our chocobos into something else (amaros, magitek?) but a real expansion of the system itself is unlikely in the current state of the game.
Honestly i would be okay with just a reskin.. if i could use the appereanche of one of the company squadron it would be amazing.
Id argue that FATEs are a reason to consider more companion stuff in the future. As it stands, you don't need other people to complete most FATEs (minus the epic FATE in each zone) but if you want to do things like clear shared FATEs or even do your weeklies, it can often take a long time to solo FATEs once people have made it through that area. Having our chocobo get updated for the first time like 7 years could be worthwhile, as well as potentially earning a new companion that's perhaps more expensive to summon for 30 minutes. If it's not as free to have them out as the chocobo, then I think balancing concerns could be addressed.
I've said a couple times in threads like these I'd like to see updates to the chocobo companion.
Few things I've said before:
- I'd like the accuracy traits replacing. Tank stance, raise and party damage boost actions would be nice instead as capstone abilities for each tree.
- Onion should probably be scrapped. Feels like a relic of a bygone era, don't see the harm in just letting it keep leveling up to 20 if people are prepared to put in the grind.
- I also wouldn't mind if as a reward for level 10 or something, the need to use greens was replaced by just learning an action to summon it.
- And as a more crazy out there thing, I'd like to be able to take it as a squad member/trust option, depending on what's leveled on it.
If you doing fates in start area for whatever reasons or just wanna cap gemstones later in game for whatever reason. While you can solo most fates, except earlier zone boss fate...it takes forever. having a little squad with you can speed things along. NPC dungeons are slow cause you don't have the quick thinking and response of real people. Those dungeons done with NPC takes double or triple as long to complete.