IDEA: Separate Gatherer and Battle Diadem groups

[Chiramu]

This thread... again. With a similar, older, thread on the same page no less. How about this... seeing as we can't have nice things how about we just lock Diadem to people in free companies. That's who the content was designed for, only makes sense to keep it to them. Not in a free company? Well what are you waiting for?!

This is a brainstorming thread not a whining thread... If you are whining please do it in the Diadem whining threads scattered throughout the forums .

[Gilraen]

This is a brainstorming thread not a whining thread... If you are whining please do it in the Diadem whining threads scattered throughout the forums .

That was my idea. The point of Exploration was to give companies with gatherers something to do together. Breaking them off into their own instances defeats the purpose of Exploration and further punishes those who do just want to gather (Stealth doesn't work in Diadem). It was made for companies so lets keep it to companies. Leave the NPCs there in Ishgard but remove it from Duty. Have it work just like Coil used to in that you have to form a party and talk to an NPC to gain entry, or use the workshop console if you have a house with that. And of course the NPC only allows those in a company to enter. Problems solved and noone had to be punished for 'ruining your precious content'.

[Colorful]

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Then make it so preformed parties have the ability to go in with whatever composition they desire without restrictions. To add onto OP's suggestion, I think the Easy mode of the Diadem should truly be "easy". Allow players to go in solo with a gatherer class (with the ability to switch to DoW/DoM of course), make the mobs soloable or allow stealth to work. I see no reason for easy mode's existence at the moment, no one does it from what I can tell and I check the Party Finder often enough.