Trust NPC Companion system from FFXI, can we get it here?

[RareItems]

It could be really useful to have, especially for players who play at times when most of the ppl are asleep.

For those not familiar with the Trust system. In FFXI, you can gain certain notable NPC's as "Trusts" and summon them in the battlefield as a party member .

It's kinda like the Grand Company Squadron, except your collecting famous NPC's as trusts and you can summon them anywhere except in towns/cities.

The NPC's strength depends on how notable they are in the storyline and your current ilvl.

It could be useful for Fates, Eureka, Easy Dungeons, Map Parties, Old Savage Dungeons etc .

[WhyAmIHere]

with how this roleplay thing is going, and squadron dungeons... maybe someday.

[SenorPatty]

Sounds like something they could cook up with our squadron or retainers or even some beast tribes.

[Ransom]

This is probably in the future, though the distant future seeins as trusts were only implemented in 11 when the game got so old and with so few ppl playing that basically no one could ever find help anymore. For me, for now, I'd just be happy with squadron members out in the open world (Even if you could just summon one at a time, and in place of chocobo, it'd still be kind of neat. Though I suppose we'd need to be able to level them to 70 first.)

[Enkidoh]

Well, the Grand Company Squadron and the Chocobo Companion already serve a similar (albiet currently more restricted) role so I don't see this being a good fit. The Trust NPC system was long overdue for FFXI simply because everything in FFXI (and I mean, everything) had been designed around parties and so with a rapidly declining population and the development team winding up the storyline (due to FFXI now well and truly being in it's Indian Summer), something was needed to allow players to be able to progress through the story/dungeons in FFXI, and the Trusts was it.

As most of FFXIV allows easy soloing with party content easily undertaken with the Duty Finder/Party Finder/Raid Finder, something that has never existed in FFXI, Trusts have little reason or need to exist here. Instead, I see the Grand Company Squadron being expanded upon which would fill that niche.

Having said that, I would love to see FFXIV 1.0's Path Companions return in a similar role as an alternative to the Chocobo Companion - I miss my sultry, bisexual moonkeeper kittygirl GLA Imarah.

[RareItems]

The Trust system in FFXI is interesting because you get to party up with Notable NPCs. Imagine partying up with Yshtola, Yda, Raubagn, and all the other scions. Or maybe some of the Bad guys on the MSQ. What about those Class job quest giver NPCs . Collecting them would sure be fun .

FFXI has a lot of systems the FFXIV Dev team should look at .

[Enkidoh]

But you already do party with them on multiple occassions during story instances - besides, the Trust NPCs in FFXI aren't even the real thing lore wise (as in, the player's character doesn't literally summon the real character to fight alongside them), they're just magical clones with virtually no actual will of their own other than pre-programmed dialogue and attack behaviour (I remember a humorous article on the FFXI website not long after the Trust NPCs were first introduced featured a story that among other things depicted Windurst's 'Cat Burglar' Nanna Mihgo encountering her Trust NPC summoned by a tentative player's character, and the end result was the real Nanna did not think too highly of her mindless copy (that just endlessly spouted it's attack dialogue when Nanna tried asking it a question).

Either way, as I mentioned I'd much rather have my Path Companion from FFXIV 1.0 back, or at the very least an expansion on the GC Squadrons, as it would be a natural progression for something that is already in the game.

[Kurando]

FFXI has a lot of systems the FFXIV Dev team should look at .

The last time the dev team attempted to bring something from XI in to XIV we got Eureka, and that didn't go down well as they probably planned. Bringing other stuff from an older game is cool but I'd like to see more things unique to XIV rather than copied from something else you know.

[DiscoDuck]

I just want to adventure with my dearly departed husbands (well I wont name the second cause I doubt they'd add an antag) Haurchefant COME BACK

[Sigma-Astra]

I'd rather not see them as they would just be another reason for people in this game to not actually put in effort towards their main jobs or socialize with others to get things done.

"Oh, it's alright! I don't have to play well! The NPC's will take care of me or won't care!"

I really don't want that to be XIV's next future and used as an excuse as to why someone can't do a dungeon properly.