4.1 Squadrons can be party members in dungeons

[kattzkitti]

Assuming it does come to fruition

It was confirmed in the recent live letter that it's coming in 4.1, it isn't just a design concept anymore.

[Niwashi]

I'm just hoping they can do Castrum and Praetorium, so it's finally possible to get a full run of those two.

[LunaFaye]

probably only available for palace of the dead. Hope they make it available for all content even upcoming, it should be the players choice if they are going to chose the squadron over real people. Nobody forced to go with squadrons but I shouldn't be forced to go with other people if I don't feel like it on that day. If it's only available for things like fates (open world content) they might as well not bother developing it, in my personal opinion.

[Driavna]

You know if they do this I hope people have to gear their Squad first, like retainers, instead of just leveling them up.

[Riardon]

This may help for older content where queues are too long. As the game grows we get more and more dungeons with the old ones getting longer queues. This may help newcomers clear the old content faster. It all depends how exactly will they implement this feature.

[Zojha]

It all depends how exactly will they implement this feature.

Truth be told, I'm not seeing too much use for newcomers.

Before you even get to the appropriate rank for squadrons, you need to have cleared Aurum Vale (i.e. be level 47+). And then you still have to grind them up, which takes a while as well.

Maybe in another few expansions. At the moment, they'd be useful for HW dungeons at best and that's assuming a 10 level increase and the person not rushing through the MSQ.

[SenorPatty]

Truth be told, I'm not seeing too much use for newcomers.

Before you even get to the appropriate rank for squadrons, you need to have cleared Aurum Vale (i.e. be level 47+). And then you still have to grind them up, which takes a while as well.

Maybe in another few expansions. At the moment, they'd be useful for HW dungeons at best and that's assuming a 10 level increase and the person not rushing through the MSQ.

Not to mention once you complete the dgn requirements and the rank, you still have to pray to the rng gods that one will pop up every time you complete a challenge.

It takes a while lol

[Derio]

They would also have to give them jobs, or make it where all of a squadrons moves generate 5X enmity than your player. Then npcs don't dodge aoes( ex chocobo companion /pets) so coding for that would be required or your squad would have to have crazy high health pools or auto potion.

My thought was they were adding in new dungeons that you can do with your squad for rewards, not old dungeons as most new players don't even get high enough rank to unlock squadrons until they are lvl 60.

[TristanBlane]

I can imagine that they unlock this feature only for outdated content like they did with "undersized group".

I LOVE this idea! At first I thought itd be really dumb and makes no sense and would further push apart the community and promote more solo play than team play that is expected from an MMO, but I think this would be a great way to help people solo through old content that just isn't being run anymore?

[Mysticales]

I guess one of your battle classes to join your squad. I havent even finished leveling mine so I might delete one and maybe more picky on who I let join if we can actually take them places at some point.

How about we ask the devs to meet us in the middle. Allow us to create our own squad member with our own design.

I know for some who talk about 1.0. I took mine with me from FFXI.

My Vinja loves Great Katanas. So he is already ready to switch over to SAM once 4.0 launches. =D