4.1 Squadrons can be party members in dungeons

[Ghastly]

You're not alone on this one. The more I read about the squadron update the more it feels like a waste of resources.

Me too
waste of time

And it feels like it's made for a dying mmorpg
Why does Yoshi waste time on a request like this and not on glamour, hair, and other actual requests?

[Airget]

Squadrons would be cooler if it didn't feel like team-based Retainer Ventures.

It should of felt more like an adventure. With each GC having it's own focus on Hamlets.

Basically Squadrons should of been about protecting the Hamlets. When you reach lv 50 you would have access to the HW Hamlets and at 60 the SB ones.

But basically the idea would be with your group of 8 you could send them out on mission and then come back with notifications to do an instance that involved your Squadron(instance which up to 8 can enter and help with). But the basic idea would be about earning reputation with your GC and the other ones to unlock new items to buy or something.

That's what really grinds me about these concepts being implemented.

Retainers are single unit being sent out to get something, FC Airships are a time based send to multiple location to get certain items back and Squadrons are 4 members performing a task to obtain rewards and possibly an item among other things based on their traits.

Retainers could remain as they are.

FC Airships should of been about exploring and unlocking instances which would be open for the FC to do for a set amount of time.

-Like imagine going to area 21-23-24 and the airship comes back and says "Something of Interested has appeared"
--Then on the FC airship map you would have a set amount of time to explore the area and could explore it until either your FC cleared it or time ran out

-With Squadrons it could of been about sending your Squad to keep Eorzea safe and occasionally helping them out via instances that would appear witha set time limit 24-48hrs to complete.

[SendohJin]

FC Airships should of been about exploring and unlocking instances which would be open for the FC to do for a set amount of time.

-Like imagine going to area 21-23-24 and the airship comes back and says "Something of Interested has appeared"
--Then on the FC airship map you would have a set amount of time to explore the area and could explore it until either your FC cleared it or time ran out

that's what some people hoped Diadem would have been. pretty obvious they didn't have resources for that.

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

if i can customize with character creations, rename, change class and lvl them then yeah i would be interested and call this my own personal npc and send for ventures.

[Xdark93]

based on what we saw in the live letter video the squads will not be available for dungeons that we can que for solo in duty finder but operate on a completely different system, one that is built specifically around the functionality of the AI/NPC. this meaning that they won't give you a clear for things, but allow you to replay existing dungeons once you've unlocked the feature for your squad and the dungeons themselves as was shown only appear to benefit your squads and not you personally. to me honestly this sounds pretty useless to us.. with all we get are glamour and emotes as a reward :T but this could just be a testing phase for the devs to collect data and feedback on the feature from the player base. so the best thing to do if we want to be able to do more with this system is to try it out, then suggest or criticize on where to go from there.
personally i'd love to be able to have an option when opening the duty finder which allows us to use our squad for a select duty( there will be limitations of course, cause it is alot of work making the AI perform optimally) and then having the squad option go on like a 1-2hr cooldown until you can use them again. this would greatly help newer players clear content they are denied access to cause of the low interest in old content. also i think they should allow us to unlock squads after joining a GC rather than having to grind agonizing hours worth of fates or gc leves just to rank up and unlock the feature.

[Caitlyn]

I just hope I can level my classes with my lala-squad >: D

[Krotoan]

Me too
waste of time

And it feels like it's made for a dying mmorpg
Why does Yoshi waste time on a request like this and not on glamour, hair, and other actual requests?

Nope. Some of us asked for this. We wanted squadrons to be deeper and now they are! WOO!

Sorry this wasn't made for you, but keep in mind your glamour fixes (supposedly ) are in development as well. This IS an actual request, don't belittle it just because you personally didn't ask for it.

[Airget]

that's what some people hoped Diadem would have been. pretty obvious they didn't have resources for that.

Yea. . it's like if they wanted to design it with the 4-24 FC member in mind they could of easily designated each sector by a recommended party size or ever party size limit and had the airship unlock content that players could explore.

Heck they could of even made it a weekly thing, once you found a location you have a whole week to explore it before you lose sight of it and have to explore again to find it. That type of engaging game-play would of had people still use FX airship regularly to open areas and then proceed to invite others who aren't even in FC to join in for loot.

[AlexionSkylark]

I rather summon my retainer to fight along side with me..

That'd be an awkward situation as my retainer is equipped mostly with hand-me-downs from my old gear hahah

[bswpayton]

Im a bit disappointed that you cant do any of the old ex primals with them would save alot of time on farming if u could