party and solo based enhanced grinding systems

[AlexiaKidd]

Some good idea's here, here are some things I would like to see to enhance play for solo and parties:

Party

SP/EXP Chains - As mentioned these would be great and I hope they can make them so the chain isn't just time based to keep it going. Maybe use other things as well like finishing the mob with a Battle Regime or Magic Burst and other things to make different Chain Types.

Remove the Mob Rank SP Cap - At the minute there is no point in fighting mobs more than 10 Ranks above your own as the SP/EXP is capped at that point. This needs to be changed as you can easily kill mobs of that Rank with only a few people so there is no need to group up in large parties.

Mob Distribution - Mob Distribution is horrible in this game and respawn times are too long. They need to create area's where all the mobs are of a similar Rank to allow people to grind on them. They don't even have to be all the same mob type, mix it up so that we can fight different types of mobs and use different strategies for them in the same area just make sure they are the same Rank range. Also look into mob respawn times as they are very slow for example if you do a Raptor grind you can easily clear the area before the first lot have started to respawn and that also involves running around a huge area to find them and if another party turns up to grind them too then you are screwed.

Changes to GA - Currently you can only use GA on Leves, why? It would be great if you used GA kind of like an SP/EXP band. If you changed GA so that it worked for a set amount of SP/EXP say for example it gave a 50% boost for 20k SP then that would be great. At the minute if you are smart you only use GA on the "good Leves" and this also promotes the idea of Leve abandoning a little bit. If GA was changed to work how I would like then you could fire it up, do a Leve that gets you 5K SP, do some grinding for another 10k SP and then do a Behest for another 5k SP and then your GA would run out as you had hit the 20k SP limit. Of course because of the 50% bonus you would have actually got 30k SP and not 20k SP. Also with this method for using GA you could even D/C or Logout and continue working towards your 20K limit on return so as not to waste it.

Solo

Call your Companion - To help solo players why not allow them to call out their companion to help them out in battle and fight along side you. If you are a GLA and had a mage Companion you could call them and they could come and cure you and then help with nukes. By calling them out I do not mean for just one fight I mean that they stay and follow you around for an hour or so. FFXI had a similar system but in FFXIV you could really flesh it out.