Grand Company/Squadron Update?

So, with all the system changes incoming with EC, and the gradual reworks that have been happening over the course of post-EW and DT, any interest and hopes for a Grand Company and/or Adventurer Squadron rework? Or at the least a continuation of them?

That "Champion" rank has been taunting us all since 2013. And it'd be nice to have the Squad's AI updated and finally have an NPC option for at least the remaining dungeons we're missing options for. If they added more to squadrons beyond that, I also wouldn't complain.

I enjoyed leveling up in my Grand Company. I wouldn't mind going back to do more.

It's been high time and they really ought ot incorporate squadrons to the trust system.

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Originally Posted by Nadda

It's been high time and they really ought ot incorporate squadrons to the trust system.

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If they could merge them somehow so that you can pick an eligible squaddie(if one is recruited) where you currently have a random nameless NPC, I'd love that.

For it to work best for new players, they might need to alter squadrons to be something you can start up when you first join a company. Maybe gate NPC recruitment by GC rank to still give you some progression goals.

This could be something they have planned for Evercold. I wouldn't rule it out since it's been long overdue at this point and it's the easiest way to implement new forms of new daily, weekly and monthly content. Personally I want the Grand Company system expanded past ARR content which means we would get a Grand Company for Ishgard, Kugane, Doma, Crystarium, Old Sharlayan, Radz at Han, Tuliyollal, etc. This would apply to PvP also.

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Originally Posted by Alleluia

If they could merge them somehow so that you can pick an eligible squaddie(if one is recruited) where you currently have a random nameless NPC, I'd love that.

For it to work best for new players, they might need to alter squadrons to be something you can start up when you first join a company. Maybe gate NPC recruitment by GC rank to still give you some progression goals.

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This is an awesome idea and it doesn't seem like it should be that hard to implement. I don't think they even need to alter it for new players, because they can still just use duty support as is.

I want to see squadrons allowed in trust dungeons, made more customizable with their own jobs based on the scions, and i'd also like to see squadron NPCS, and trust NPC's allowed to be your companion like the chocobo out in the world.
Since we're apparently getting more open world content, i think that'd be neat

Ever since they introduced Trusts, it did feel like the logical next step would be to integrate Squadrons into that system. Not that Squadrons and Trusts operate exactly the same, of course, but I don't see why we can't take a, say, tank that we have in our Squadron and slot them in as a Tank in a Trust. They could even expand it such that certain Squadron members had different "personalities" like we see in the Scions like a healer preferring to heal one character over another or a DPS always dropping a LB as soon as it was available. It just kind of makes sense.

I've also long thought it would make sense to combine the Squadron and Companion systems in the open world. I mean, they call it Companion but the only one we have is our chocobo. It would be cool if we could assign a Squadron member to each of the Companion Types that we can direct our chocobo to have, so that if we switched to "Healer Mode" then our assigned Squadron Healer would come out to heal us and if we switched it to DPS then our assigned Squadron DPSer would come out. They wouldn't even really need to change the skills the Squadron members used to be anything special as they could still use the same basic skills that the chocobo has. It would be nice even if it was just a visual change and nothing different mechanically.

One would think that with the addition of evolved mode, now would be a good time to redo the skill sets on NPCs as well to get them all on the same page using "simplified" kits, and then consolidate the different NPC systems into their own roster similar to what BST gets with monsters.