Are you liking squadron missions so far?

[Balipu]

Not liking the missions thmselves much. I mean there is very little to do. What I do like is now I'm doing challenge log entries I have never done before to get new recruits.
Honestly, when was the last time you did a Gold Saucer Minigame? Not triple triad or chocobo racing. A minigame. Well, I got my first new recruit from punching gilgamesh. It doesn't even take a minute, yet people don't normally do it. Do I feel it is forced on me? An optional way to advance in and optional system? Hell no. I just figured there is no reason not to. Would I do it without Squadrons? Nah. Is it awesome that old/neglected content has some use again? You bet it is.

[Fyce]

It's useless, they said. There are no rewards, they said.


I'm so proud of my little recruits.

[Kurogaea]

It's useless, they said. There are no rewards, they said.


I'm so proud of my little recruits.

Gather 4s are pretty useless other than using them at the materia converter. Do squads give 5s or materials for cosmetics like airships or retainers?

[Renius]

I wish we could use them like back in GW1 where you could have your (i forget what they were called) suadron of 4 sidekicks go with you and complete special quests or just regular quests. I see no fun in just sending them out to gather stuff and not interacting with them.

[Fyce]

Gather 4s are pretty useless other than using them at the materia converter. Do squads give 5s or materials for cosmetics like airships or retainers?

They are far from being optimized regarding Chemistry. They aren't even level 50 yet. What I just got basically comes from the default Chemistry they acquired when leveling up.
So, if they can get me a few hundred thousand gils per day or every other day without me having to do anything, I won't spit on that. Especially not when the feature is two weeks old.

[Balipu]

I wish we could use them like back in GW1 where you could have your (i forget what they were called) suadron of 4 sidekicks go with you and complete special quests or just regular quests. I see no fun in just sending them out to gather stuff and not interacting with them.

It might happen. Remember when we first got FC airships, we could only send them away and not travel on them.
SE likes to add basic systems and adding new functions to them gradually.

[Remus]

It's useless, they said. There are no rewards, they said.


I'm so proud of my little recruits.

Still looks pretty useless to me only tier 4 which is dirt cheap.

[Alistaire]

Especially for the effort put into getting those.

[Fyce]

*sigh*

This forum is hopeless.

[Kaurie]

It's useless, they said. There are no rewards, they said.


I'm so proud of my little recruits.

Congrats on your loot, it looks like you are quite pleased with it

For me, I don't craft or gather and the gil obtained would be negligible (I only use gil for repairs and food, and I have enough to last me for quite some time. I gain gil faster than I spend it via retainers).

All of that said, I think the complaints of lack of rewards are fairly small - no? My issue, at least, is that the content is akin to Garrison Missions in WoW which is akin to a Mobile Phone / Facebook game. We're playing MMORPG's, not mobile phones. We're paying $15 a month for quality content, not the equivalent of free time-wasters. I have a difficult time fathoming how anyone who logs in to FFXIV could want to spend any of their time on this content. While I dislike things like crafting, gathering and PvP in FFXIV, I at least understand the appeal. For this content, I'm fairly dumbfounded.