[Request] Please add more guildhests to the game!

I'd like to see additional guildhests developed and added to the game. I think they'd be a great way to teach players about some of the different mechanics that have been added to FFXIV since the days of ARR.

To my knowledge, no new guildhests have been added to the game since ARR. Which is a real shame since they have the potential to be really exciting.

more guildhests aren't really necessary. you're expected to turn to the community and your fellow players to learn more things as the game progresses.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

more guildhests aren't really necessary. you're expected to turn to the community and your fellow players to learn more things as the game progresses.

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They're a lot of fun, though. I like it when I get them in mentor roulette.

I don't think I've done a guildhest for years. My alt can't even do them.

While i like the idea to teach new players the new mechanics/markers added, i think guildhests are not the way to go. They were underutilised in ARR so much so the msq forced you through majority of them in patch 2.1(since has been changed), let alone now.

Personally i would prefer that to gain access to SB and onwards content you have to go through an intermediate novice challenge where it goes through all currently used consistent markers, why i choose SB onwards is due to HW starting to unify them but it still has oddballs yet to be consistent (1st stack marker in msq is Nidhogg in Final Steps of Faith etc).

I no longer do them because the exp reward isn't worth it iirc. But I would love to see more added. Esp if rewards become more worthwhile.

They are quick, easy and a nice little break from the standard hum drum dungeon-primal-fetchquest monotony of leveling in ffxiv

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

While i like the idea to teach new players the new mechanics/markers added, i think guildhests are not the way to go. They were underutilised in ARR so much so the msq forced you through majority of them in patch 2.1(since has been changed), let alone now.

Personally i would prefer that to gain access to SB and onwards content you have to go through an intermediate novice challenge where it goes through all currently used consistent markers, why i choose SB onwards is due to HW starting to unify them but it still has oddballs yet to be consistent (1st stack marker in msq is Nidhogg in Final Steps of Faith etc).

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Given how many markers and mechanics there are, content like that would essentially just be guildhests dressed up differently.

And I don't think that's really a bad thing. With the introduction of the new GATE The Slice is Right, I'd be really excited to see more short-iteration content that utilizes mechanics found later in the game. I'd love to see more small short things available to train players to understand certain things, so that when those mechanics are used in more difficult content, they could, conceivably, dispense with making them simple or less punishing early in the fights. They could, potentially, tweak the difficulty of bosses up (just a little bit), if they were to move some of the learning stages into separate content.

I stopped doing them because parties struggle to not kill that poor turtle all the time.

Thinking on it further, having a guildhest devoted to teaching players how to recognise the stack marker and the look away marker would help immensely.

TBH I wish more tutorial gameplay was mandatory. Even if you're the most half witted, no paying attention simpleton there's the timed dialog covering a good portion of the screen in them. Teach people what markers mean, make orange markers have more status ailments over damage like Petrify or Heavy, and maybe one in which a limit break is used.

It is baffling how poorly people play and end up bringing entire parties down at post 70. How they got through their job quests, I do not know, but somehow they did, and still fail mechanics showed in them.

Guildhests are designed and intended to be the games tutorial for duties. We dont need more.

If there are some mechanics introduced after ARR and not covered within the current Guildest set, and that those really need guidance with, why not they be incorporated as an extra chapter to the Hall of novice chain?

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

more guildhests aren't really necessary. you're expected to turn to the community and your fellow players to learn more things as the game progresses.

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As are consistently/completely accurate tooltips and the effects of our stats. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be included in-game as well.

We could use a Hall of the Veteran around level 60. And make it mandatory for boosted jobs before they can go into Duty Finder.

Rather than more Guildhests (which everyone just blazes through anyway), I think that extending Trusts back into old content might be the better approach. Trusts are actually a decent way of teaching content, since the NPC's actually demonstrate what it is you should do for certain mechanics (most of the time, at least).