Grand Company Ranks: Are they being ignored for the foreseeable future?

Seems kind of silly for the ranking system to stop abruptly as of Stormblood. Was hoping to see some advancement in ShB, never happened. Maybe they'll give us another couple of ranks? Or has the entire system been abandoned?

There aren't enough "things" involved in the grand company system to really justify additional ranks. Until they added the material crate thingies here in Endwalker, there wasn't even any good reason to advance to the captain rank to begin with.

Maybe a material crate 5.0 and 6.0 will later justify grand company expansion but atm grand companies are kinda pointless for the most part.

I hope they're done forever. I hated my squadron.

I hope they expand on the GC stuff and actually add stuff we can do with our FC. We really need more things we can do with our FC as a group like doing specific GC dungeons and maybe add a storyline to GC.

I hope they do expand, there's some cool stuff they could do, as you rise up the ranks you could be commanding a grand company outpost (in some area of the grand company's region you haven't been to). you could slowly expand the outpost and command your troops to do various things, not sure exactly how it would work, I'm not a game designer, but I do hope we some some new functionality added to the grand companies in the future. I do think they're going to have to come up with something new to continue grand companies though, the squadron system. is kinda obsolete at this point.

they don't want ranking up to be the same method every time and will update GC and include more ranks when they come up with something more unique

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Originally Posted by van_arn

I hope they're done forever. I hated my squadron.

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I hope they revisit some old stuff. They can make Squadrons closer to trusts. It'll be cool if your retainers could do dungeons with you, too.

I got the exercise emotes and never touched it again.

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Originally Posted by Jybril

I hope they revisit some old stuff. They can make Squadrons closer to trusts. It'll be cool if your retainers could do dungeons with you, too.

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At least move the Squadron to Trust section since you can glamour your Scion once you reach the level just like your squadron npc at 50.

At least I appreciate the material container, I missed many things fro Stormblood so it is nice way of spending seals.

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Originally Posted by van_arn

I hope they're done forever. I hated my squadron.

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I already collected 5 male Roegadyns yet I still can't make them wear Shisui gear?? This is blasphemy!

I would expect not, simply for the lore-absurdity of an adventurer rising to high ranks in the military despite only intermittently (at best) being involved with said military.

I think GC membership is one of those systems that wasn't taken out back and shot for the sole reason that untying it from ARR MSQ requires too much effort. I don't expect it will ever be expanded.

https://i.imgur.com/TkWnKEu.png

See ya in 2045 at this rate.

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Originally Posted by Listrella

I hope they do expand, there's some cool stuff they could do, as you rise up the ranks you could be commanding a grand company outpost (in some area of the grand company's region you haven't been to). you could slowly expand the outpost and command your troops to do various things, not sure exactly how it would work, I'm not a game designer, but I do hope we some some new functionality added to the grand companies in the future. I do think they're going to have to come up with something new to continue grand companies though, the squadron system. is kinda obsolete at this point.

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Will you be able to use it to farm shit tons of gil and acquire every NPC in the game as your personal minion?

Maybe next expansion?

We already do have a couple of pathways for further progression, that being future loot boxes and further development in the squadron system to include post level 60 content and a better dovetail into the Trust system (or just complete Trust system integration with Squadrons. It would also be nice to see a new tier/design for GC oriented gear. They did say that one of the reasons they haven't advanced the GC system at all is because they didn't know what to do with it and what to offer.. but now they do so hopefully they'll make good on allowing further upgrading.

Grand Company Ranks definitely needs some reform so that it scales to your level. The Squadron doesn't have to do this, but the ranks itself does.

The squadron system would need a rework to facilitate more ranks, seeing as how they now gate anything above 2nd Lt.

They should probably be made a mandatory quest at lvl 15 and turned into the "trusts" for level 15-70 content. With a "send for your squadron" option for the first attempt at any msq dungeons.

I imagine an update will come in 6.*

I'd love an excuse to engage with the ranks again.

They should add GvG content.

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Originally Posted by Jybril

I hope they revisit some old stuff. They can make Squadrons closer to trusts. It'll be cool if your retainers could do dungeons with you, too.

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I love squadrons. I wished they would revisit them. I would love to have them go up to level 70 dungeons & get higher ranks & more squadron buffs.

In theory future GC should be Grand Company of Eorzea now and not city-state specific Grand Company.

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Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty

There aren't enough "things" involved in the grand company system to really justify additional ranks. Until they added the material crate thingies here in Endwalker, there wasn't even any good reason to advance to the captain rank to begin with.

Maybe a material crate 5.0 and 6.0 will later justify grand company expansion but atm grand companies are kinda pointless for the most part.

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The ranks already exist though. I think his point is to give them a point. Nothing has a point in the design of game until it is given a point, and there were plenty of opportunities to involve the grand companies in the main story along the way. They mention them as existing and you see the troops around.
But anything you think has a point in this game has it because it was designed that way.

Currently Squadrons only go to level 60 and trusts start at level 70. Personally I think squadrons should go to 90 since they are superior to trust in several ways, but getting them to 70 would be a great reason to open up additional ranks.

Unlike Trust, you could customize your squadron. I'm currently working on an all-Lala team with one of my chars, and all-Miqo on another.

Personally, I’d like for them to just straight up cut out squadrons in favor of a revised trust system. I would have rather gone through Sastasha etc with like..Hoary Boulder and company than random generic npcs.

As for rank increases, there really is no point once you can just dump dungeon gear into points. You’d be fully ranked up in a week tops, no matter how high it went.

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Originally Posted by Baklavah

Seems kind of silly for the ranking system to stop abruptly as of Stormblood. Was hoping to see some advancement in ShB, never happened. Maybe they'll give us another couple of ranks? Or has the entire system been abandoned?

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They'll make a big comeback in 7.0, when we lead a Grand Company expedition to Meracydia!

At least... I hope so :p

Please no turning Squadrons into Trust. I love Squadrons and hate Trusts with passion.
The only problem with Squadrons now is that they only go up to 60, and you don't really need squadrons help much for those levels, and often people aren't at the GC ran yet where they can use squadrons to level, below 60. I wish they'd expand them to at least 70, since that's an empty gap. Have them go all the way to 90 would be awesome but I know they'd never do that, cause of stupid Trusts.

They need to add more to GC and to stop taking away things. The biggest complaint on these forums is SE "taking away content" or "there isn't enough content" just add more to GC. We need more FC content anyways and we need more added to FC's in general.

He said he doesn't know what to do with ranks right now.

I was thinking maybe tie to them Frontline victories or something. Squadron is done though - that was clearly a prototype for what is now the Trust system.