Fully Customizable GC Platoon?

[Cakekizyy]

I doubt they'll let you bring a npc party to current dungeons since that would hurt queue times. Maybe ARR ones.

More likely I think they'll recycle old dungeons to create special GC Platoon instances similar to the Heavensward single player story instances that gave you a npc party.

If you can solo with npcs, would queue times really matter outside of raids?

[Moomba33]

If you can solo with npcs, would queue times really matter outside of raids?

Wouldn't bother me.
But I doubt the developers want to make their MMO even more of a single player game.

[Tolmos]

Wouldn't bother me.
But I doubt the developers want to make their MMO even more of a single player game.

I don't think that would be the case. I mean, the AI for these platoons will likely resemble what you've seen in NPC group content in the past. Can you imagine taking that kind of group into, say, the Aery? They would stand in EVERY ground target, miss pretty much EVERY mechanic. The only way you'd be able to pull it off is if the player went in as a healer, and was extremely overgeared and very dedicated to the task. And even then, most of the dungeons would be pretty iffy.

I would say that, personally, I can't imagine queue times being in any danger no matter what restrictions they do or don't put on this.

[Cakekizyy]

I don't think that would be the case. I mean, the AI for these platoons will likely resemble what you've seen in NPC group content in the past. Can you imagine taking that kind of group into, say, the Aery? They would stand in EVERY ground target, miss pretty much EVERY mechanic. The only way you'd be able to pull it off is if the player went in as a healer, and was extremely overgeared and very dedicated to the task. And even then, most of the dungeons would be pretty iffy.

I would say that, personally, I can't imagine queue times being in any danger no matter what restrictions they do or don't put on this.

Unless they were given lots of health or programmed AoEs to ignore them.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Unless they were given lots of health or programmed AoEs to ignore them.

Or perhaps, treated them like pets where they take less aoe damage.

[LadyVal]

The only way you'd be able to pull it off is if the player went in as a healer, and was extremely overgeared and very dedicated to the task. And even then, most of the dungeons would be pretty iffy.

If they are programmed like NPCs and not like pets, being a healer would still be quite a challenge because NPCs are not affected by AoE heals or buffs lol. So us healers would essentially need to heal a group immune to protect, whom we could only heal by using single target heals. It would not be very fun. XD

ETA- I'm thinking this is going to be veeeery similar to Hall of the Novice. We're going to get short instances, in a "dungeon," to tick off of a list and once cleared, we probably won't have much motivation to do that dugeon/mission with our platoon again.