small worry on companies

Does anyone else think the gridanian company is going to be underpopulated? i cant really put a finger on it but i feel like the other 2 companies have a much better back story and allure, not to mention the leader, though im sure capable by the games lore, does not really have the look and feel from what i read as someone i'd follow personally. What do you guys think?

Probably doesn't matter, I bet you can group up with anyone to run the dungeons, doesn't matter the allegiance. The Gridania company will fill up when more players stroll into the game. But if its any consolation I was reading the ZAM forums and there is a bunch of people there saying they're sticking with Gridania.

They mentioned that you'll be given equipment as your rank increase with your chosen company, if this somehow leads you to obtaining the weapons such as Gridania's "Claustrum"(Legendary Staff), Casters will have no choice but to flock to Gridania.

Well you might be right, we'll see how Gridania transform first, it will depends from that a
lot in my opinion :>

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Originally Posted by Joeking

They mentioned that you'll be given equipment as your rank increase with your chosen company, if this somehow leads you to obtaining the weapons such as Gridania's "Claustrum"(Legendary Staff), Casters will have no choice but to flock to Gridania.

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Hell no this wont happen, because there are no "casters" in this game, there's only an armoury system and they need to cater to that and that only. There is no way they'll restrict you using these methods especially considering you will have no idea what "prizes" you get until way later down the road....you don't even know how many dungeons we're getting in the short term or in the long term.

If it's any consolation, I'll stay with my Gridania!

Which ever is the most rewarding people will stick to, no matter where it is or whatever you plan now.

Gridania is still my favorite city state, so I'll be joining their company whenever I have the opportunity to.

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Originally Posted by Azurus

Does anyone else think the gridanian company is going to be underpopulated? i cant really put a finger on it but i feel like the other 2 companies have a much better back story and allure, not to mention the leader, though im sure capable by the games lore, does not really have the look and feel from what i read as someone i'd follow personally. What do you guys think?

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Gridania is currently my top choice specifically because of the leader, along with the lore. I can't say 100% which I will join until I try them all, of course.

Remember, different strokes for different folks. :)

I think personally companies will be a mix of ffxi's home town ranks and Wings city ranks stuff where you had assults. This is according to a deeper lore based info. Saying everyone will have a part to play with in a company. I think any rewarded gear will be based on the santioned guild with in each city. Like Gridania will have gear around archer, conjure, botany, lancer, and carpenter. I'm choosing the Twin adder. Mostly for Rp reasons, but I like the lore of gridania. It reminds me of Zelda :)

Limsa = Guns!

Edit: I hope.

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Originally Posted by viion

Which ever is the most rewarding people will stick to, no matter where it is or whatever you plan now.

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that is in the eye of the beholder. tbh.

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Originally Posted by viion

Which ever is the most rewarding people will stick to, no matter where it is or whatever you plan now.

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Probably wont be a "most rewarding" scenario, and how do we know you can drop and re-enlist? meaning once you enlist you may be stuck with your choice. The way it was worded was weird - at first it made it sound like you will auto enlist for "optimal manpower" and then it made it sound like its your choice, but clearly they will give you a reason to enlist with other companies based on "which company's ethos you most closely identify" so the way I see this happening is you will be "leaned" in a certain direction but the choice is still yours, this will most likely lead to plenty of people sticking with their LS mates.

Actually from the comments I read since a while it seems like Ul'dah company might be the less popular

well im glad my paranoia was misguided :) im glad to see so many people going different ways i guess the populations will be just fine

I personaly wanna stick with grid

BUT there are so many ways they could go with it who knows

i can see alot of people going with uldah purely out of ignorance, not knowing that it wont matter


some things to consider

1) the rewards may be purely cosmetic, based to look around the faction you are with
2) their may also be some based on what guilds each city has....

I'll probably wait to decide when more information is there, but I think Gridania looks pretty attractive as well, lore and character-wise.

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Originally Posted by TheVedis

I personaly wanna stick with grid

BUT there are so many ways they could go with it who knows

i can see alot of people going with uldah purely out of ignorance, not knowing that it wont matter


some things to consider

1) the rewards may be purely cosmetic, based to look around the faction you are with
2) their may also be some based on what guilds each city has....

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Some may disagree with this, but i hope it is based of guilds in the area, i feel this will give people more of a sense of home and make where you start more meaningful rather then just starting up and running to ul dah. I think in consequence it would bolster the pop of the other nations as well as make their wards more effective. Adding meaning to the citystates has alot of benefits, however i can see problems arising when say pugilists want to join Maelstrom for example. So for this reason alone i dont think this will happen

I hope they dont limit the equipment to what the cities guilds would use, like Limsa equipment would be just for marauders. Limsa only has one battle discipline guild, so that would kind of suck. Given that, I highly hope we dont see just conj or archer gear for gridania, gladiator, puguilist, or thaum gear for ul'dah, or marauder gear for limsa. Since the companies are working together, there should hopefully be some city-made variations of the gear. Same to be said for the crafting and gathering guilds, if they play a part in all of this (as they should)

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Originally Posted by Xandre

Gridania is still my favorite city state, so I'll be joining their company whenever I have the opportunity to.

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me too!! I love Gridania <3 (but The Black Shroud no lol, I like only gridania bc the distance between camps are too much)

Im sure crafters will play roles in companies, they will probably be asked to gather materials and craft things for the war effort. And yes you make a good point, i think company themed gear is the way to go. And one other thing id like is company specific capes.