Grand Company squadrons

[ADVSS]

Are these the set choices or is this like somones chosen list of squadmates. thinking, well hoping that a recruit system similar to FFT where they pop a result, stats are random, select yes no to recruit or try again for a different race/class? Cause in that pic, sure are alot of classes types Ok maybe just MRD is missing.

[Khalithar]

Are these the set choices or is this like somones chosen list of squadmates. thinking, well hoping that a recruit system similar to FFT where they pop a result, stats are random, select yes no to recruit or try again for a different race/class?

I actually think it will most likely be similar to that NPC recruitment system from FFT tbh.

[Ametrine]

It does appear to be a set cast of NPCs for us to work with, which is what I was expecting, and kind of hoping for, as it means we could have a set of side story quests attached to them verses our retainers having a small handful of lines... And not much else.

Although, I can't complain as one brought me a Red Onion Helm today. I shrieked.

[thunderbreak]

I hope it brings good healer AI, or even better, customizable AI.

Just copy and paste gambit from FF12, I hope SE won't fuck this one up...

[ADVSS]

Just copy and paste gambit from FF12, I hope SE won't fuck this one up...

II absolutely loved that system besides the weird way of aquisition, but tbf my DRK retainer could kick all their asses...hint hint

[Caitlyn]

It looks like retainer ventures with 4 NPCs. I hope its not, because I would like to see more solo content : /

What are "garrison missions"?

[madolyn]

sweet. you guys get to trash your old raid / tome gear, grind out new raid and tome gear, grind 2 "new" dungeons every day, grind a "new" primal, and do garrison missions on top of it. game is so good....... -_-;

[MistyMew]

"/em crosses fingers and toes" hoping they do this right and not a shell of its potential

[Remus]

It looks like retainer ventures with 4 NPCs. I hope its not, because I would like to see more solo content : /

What are "garrison missions"?

Garrisons is one of the aspects that killed WoW subs during Warlords of Draenor expansion and now that feature isn't getting continued with Legion because it was just that bad and now FFXIV is copying it. This is going to work well isn't it

They could do a lot more with this content but knowing the dev team its going to be garrisons but worse with almost any content this dev team copies.

[Nalien]

Mechanically, this'll almost certainly be worst than Garrisons, based off what I've heard at least... Will this ruin the game though? No... Not a chance... XIV isn't going to start feeling empty because everyone is in their Garrison, it's already empty because of the Duty Finder, if anything this will have the opposite effect, since we'll be gathering at out Grand Companies, rather than going to our own private zone to manage this... Heck, wasn't one of the major complaints with Garrisons that, for people with multiple characters, it became a massive chore? XIVs already kinda solved that issue by letting us level everything on a single character... You wont have as many Squadrons as you have Jobs and end up spending far to long sending this crap off...

It also seems to be complete fluff at this point... They could always give it some serious rewards, but... *Checks previous Grand Company rewards* Yeah, no... Christ, this just seems like a more advanced version of Retainer Ventures to me... If Retainer Ventures didn't kill the game, I really doubt Squadrons will...

Really disappointed if this is it for Grand Companies in 3.3... Christ... Did the developers just go down a checklist and add factions because it was on the list or something? There is seemingly no reason for Grand Companies to exist in this game... PvP is the only place where it actually "adds" something to the game, and the vast majority of PvPers would rather not have that particular restriction killing queues... Seals, vendor trash, even these Squadrons... None of these are gameplay elements that justify having three factions... You could remove the three Grand Companies and just have the single Eorzean Alliance take over that stuff, and nothing would change... Where's Conquest? Heck, where's the unique story for each faction? Those rank up quests could have been so much more, but I'm ready for 3.3 to disappoint me there too... Squadrons could actually work quite nicely to develop something similar to Conquest, though I doubt SE would ever do that... Meh, as always Yoshida, feel free to prove me wrong...