What's the point of the 4/8 person party buffs?

[solracht]

Those buffs are most likely there to keep the party sizes in future content under control:

-It'll be harder to do 4-7man content with less than 4, because it'll be designed around having 4-7 people with the 5% buff.
-It'll be harder to do 8man content with less than 8 people, because it'll be designed around having 8 people with the 10% buff.

I'm sorry that your already soloable/duoable Notorious Monsters that drop junk are going to remain easy to kill. Says nothing about the future direction of the game, however. Especially when we're undergoing battle, party and job changes, and there isn't any content that has been made with these new systems in mind yet.

I mentioned this in the other thread. Feel free to add to the speculation.

[Shiyo]

I mentioned this in the other thread. Feel free to add to the speculation.

Ok that's...weird? Really weird.

[solracht]

There's an attribute rehaul incoming, there's a battle rehaul incoming, and there's a job system on its way to be implemented. Does it really seem feasible and anything but a waste of time to go back and take care of every Notorious Monster that was added since the game came out, to make sure it feels challenging after every rehaul?

I think we should wait until all of the battle-related adjustments are done, and then start judging the difficulty of content, because that's probably when they'll start caring about making sure it feels "right".

At the very least, judge 3 the high level NMs that were added this patch (it's possible they were designed with the party buffs in mind). Caring about the old ones makes absolutely no sense at this point.