Did you (or do you plan to) level your Trust NPCs to 80?

[StriderShinryu]

I was going to just because it would be nice to have them in my back pocket in case I wanted to do a run of something specific and didn't want to wait the cue time for it... but I tapped out early. I don't even remember if I got them to level 73 or not. While I appreciate that they actually do mechanics and have personalities they just feel like such a step back from Squadrons in every other way. I miss being able to dress the Squadrons up and raise their tactics types. I also miss how powerful Squadrons could get and the micro management you had in ordering them to engage and disengage.

So yeah, I did want to level Trusts to 80 but I just couldn't maintain interest

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I have every job at 80 so no. I prefer to do my dungeons etc with people than an NPC. Though I know for leveling some of my DPS jobs it might have been faster, you can get some nice banter with randoms from other servers! I never really noticed the dps que since I would be doing something on my second screen or crafting during it anyway.

[Iscah]

Lol same thing happens to me with those two expect mine tends to occur during the first boss of Malikah's Well, the Greater Armadillo. Instead of running away from the proximity based AOE, they run towards it (not at full HP), get hit with a critical and die... yeah good times XD. I've learned to bring Alisaie along now; she will raise them Her AI prioritizes that if someone dies. Well, expect me of course lol...

The Armadillo has several attacks in a row that make you move out then in, so maybe the AI is getting ahead of itself and positioning for the attack afterwards.

Also Alisaie isn't guaranteed to Verraise, unfortunately - I did Malikah's Well the other day with a trust party and she just left Alphinaud dead for a good minute or so during the final boss. I think he eventually just respawned without getting raised first.

[Allegor]

I did it while leveling alternate classes. The slower pace was balanced out by the lack of a queue on dps, and I appreciated being able to tank without actual other players there to witness my mistakes. I didn't find it particularly painful, although it was definitely grindy. I have a feeling we'll have to do it again post-EW to get all trusts to level 90.

Same. I was leveling all jobs, and there were some where I perform so bad a healer could out-dps me, and tanking gave me a special kind of anxiety, so doing it with trusts was a lot less stressful at the time.

Originally it was painful to level them so the massive XP boost made it a lot better, but I'm not doing that again, my alt's trusts will all stay at 70

[BeautifulNerf]

I don't even know what this post is talking about. Is this squadron stuff?

[StormyFae]

I don't even know what this post is talking about. Is this squadron stuff?

shadow bringer Trust as in npcs you can bring into dungeons from 71+

[Imora]

Do you have to level them for them to be used later in MSQ? Because I really don't want to chain run Holminister Switch 20 times, I'll be 80 before I finish the fairy kingdom. ><

[Eldevern]

Do you have to level them for them to be used later in MSQ? Because I really don't want to chain run Holminister Switch 20 times, I'll be 80 before I finish the fairy kingdom. ><

Nop, hopefully, during MSQ, they have the right level. You only need to level them to run the dungeons "solo" (tomes farm/secondary jobs levelling) outside the MSQ.

Note : They are synchronized during the extension leveling. As soon as you don't reach the max level you can play them even for secondary jobs. To be more clear : ShB it was possible to run secondary jobs 70 to 80 as soon as your main didn't reach the first 80 dungeon and cleared it. As soon as the final dungeon is cleared, you need to level them to run dungeons again.

[Imora]

Hm.

I see.

Good to know. I got another job I'm working on so I'll hold off at that point.

[Lanadra]

Nope. I legit see no reason to. Why on earth would I run all these ShB dungeons dozens of times for nothing but Trust XP? I don't need anything else from any of these.