when will grand company ranks finally get an overhaul?

It would be nice if they finally allowed us to rank up further and expand the idea. They have mentioned that they have no idea how to implement it into the current time, so what are your ideas for it?

I would like for more squadron missions to be able to haul back gear, which can be turned back into seals. Higher rank shops, expanding on the shops we already have and continuing them. Like the mount loot boxes we have, going into end walker and dawn trail. And even more customization stuff for your grand company, like high rank emblems on your adventurer plate, etc.

We did not used to have the captain rank. The max rank used to be "Second Lieutenant".

In order to expand the ranks, they wanted to go through the trouble of making it meaningful ie. we'd have to command an actual squadron. So that's what they did and that is how adventurer squadrons came about.

So in order to rank up even further, we'd perhaps have to be in control of multiple squadrons or even the entire military for that grand company, in Square Enix's mind. I think that there is not enough player interest in it to really do this so it has always been kind of a side project that they last bothered with just before and after Stormblood.

Maybe 9.0
that aint gonna happen

It'd be nice to reach the final rank on the list and expand the shop more, as someone who has bothered to reach the current max rank in all grand companies

The same day the patch adressing low level and ability sync systems, Viera and Hrothgar hats, instanced housing, and older trial weapons for newer classes comes out.

So, never.

some games 'vault' content, forever removing it from the game.

SE prefers to ignore that they ever implemented it and hope it goes away.

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Originally Posted by BelmontLion

It would be nice if they finally allowed us to rank up further and expand the idea. They have mentioned that they have no idea how to implement it into the current time, so what are your ideas for it?

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Just as gardening, chocobos, netcode, client architecture, Viera hats, airships and many others, this subject goes into a bin at SE's HQ called "What is this, lol? Who cares!"

For the most part I'm fine with not ranking up in the GCs, but with the recent interview where YoshiP toyed with the idea of "there's so much of Hingashi left to explore, maybe the WoL could become a shogun or something", it would be extremely funny to me if we became a far east shogun before actually reaching anywhere near the top of a Grand Company in rank.

Pretty much all of Eorzea is at peace at the moment so the usefulness of the Grand Companies is debatable, and also I'm not sure if they think any higher rank would be appropriate for the WoL, who is supposed to be a daring adventurer. If I become Supreme Commander, then doesn't that mean I have to sit at a desk and do paperwork to manage all of the people under my command? I don't think the Grand Companies themselves would want their leader they are dependent on to be someone who constantly puts themselves at the brink of death and travels to other worlds/end of the universe.

I get a feeling that it will be final game content to give a bookend to our story, until then, it will remain untouched.

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Originally Posted by Miki_L

Pretty much all of Eorzea is at peace at the moment so the usefulness of the Grand Companies is debatable

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so you're just going to ignore all of the hostile wild life and bandits?

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Originally Posted by Miki_L

and also I'm not sure if they think any higher rank would be appropriate for the WoL, who is supposed to be a daring adventurer. If I become Supreme Commander, then doesn't that mean I have to sit at a desk and do paperwork to manage all of the people under my command? I don't think the Grand Companies themselves would want their leader they are dependent on to be someone who constantly puts themselves at the brink of death and travels to other worlds/end of the universe.

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it's a game

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Originally Posted by Miki_L

Pretty much all of Eorzea is at peace at the moment so the usefulness of the Grand Companies is debatable, and also I'm not sure if they think any higher rank would be appropriate for the WoL, who is supposed to be a daring adventurer. If I become Supreme Commander, then doesn't that mean I have to sit at a desk and do paperwork to manage all of the people under my command? I don't think the Grand Companies themselves would want their leader they are dependent on to be someone who constantly puts themselves at the brink of death and travels to other worlds/end of the universe.

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This has been a "problem" with the entire Grand Company thing from the onset, so I don't think it's worth criticizing, since it was clearly never implemented with that consideration in mind to begin with.

We're primarily members of a so-called politically neutral entity, and yet we're also captains of a specific city-state's military faction? Doesn't sound like a conflict of interest at all! Lmao

Anyway, the original plan for the final rank title was just "Champion", which doesn't really have any military connotations to begin with, regardless of whatever "responsibilities" may or may not have come with it, mechanically speaking. Either way, as I said, it never made that much sense in the first place, so whether it remains abandoned or they finally take it the rest of the way, it doesn't make much difference in the end.

Grand Companies will get an update probably when Squadrons do.

I understand the reason system is on hold ; however it doesn't means the GC should be dead until "someday maybe".

One way to move it would be sideways, like getting earning "optional" military medals for achievements/grind/etc linked to each GC for new rewards ; It would allow SE more freedom to expand the system without us becoming the military leader

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Originally Posted by Calysto

I understand the reason system is on hold ; however it doesn't means the GC should be dead until "someday maybe".

One way to move it would be sideways, like getting earning "optional" military medals for achievements/grind/etc linked to each GC for new rewards ; It would allow SE more freedom to expand the system without us becoming the military leader

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yes medals would be pretty cool and could be shown on adventurer plate. I actually do care about the faction we call home, so hopefully some day it will get an expansion/overhaul.

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Originally Posted by BelmontLion

yes medals would be pretty cool and could be shown on adventurer plate. I actually do care about the faction we call home, so hopefully some day it will get an expansion/overhaul.

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Or even next to your nameplate. That part is criminally underused, besides the mentor crown and looking to meld stuff. Plenty of stuff could be shown that way too.

IIRC, the last time this came up in an interview the answer was something along the lines of "since GCs don't really do much right now, there's no point in adding more ranks until we decided where to go with them."

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Originally Posted by CaptainLagbeard

Grand Companies will get an update probably when Squadrons do.

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Squadrons were probably always just a prototype for Trusts/Duty Support.

They won't touch content and features, which doesn't result in direct sales. They said that multiple times already :D They won't even bump exp from fates or side quests, they didn't even bother to innovate in Dawntrail with expansion content.

Maybe they could implement an Ai system for avoiding aoe attacks for the squadron, and knowing where to go, such as with the trust system, but not implementing the fluctuating damage the npcs like trust do. Then bumping their level cap up to 70. Along with us gaining the rank of Second Commander.

Then for the trust system, based on the WoL's own experience being a squad leader whose trained up soldiers for one or more of the grand companies, they could implement the tactics system as part of the leveling and dungeon/trial completion process for the trust npcs.

As being able to give the trust npcs something like offensive tactics 5 (60% damage boost) would certainly be more encouraging aside from the novelty of leveling up the scions.

As what I am talking about would certainly dovetail quiet nicely from the squadron system to the trust system.