Instanced Raids Unveiled!

[Zanfire]

Please don't tell me instances can only be entered by one group at a time?...Please don't...just don't...

If they are then the dev team is a bunch of morons.

[InuraBera]

If they are then the dev team is a bunch of morons.

I'm fairly certain that, if you think rationally, you will know that that is just the madness setting in on various posters. They are taking bits and pieces from other MMOs. then do that? Uh huh...yeah. By the way, I don't know if any of you played World of Warcraft just after the release of Wrath of the Lich King (EU side) but for a while it became impossible to enter instances as too many were in play, due to the way the lockout system worked - they eventually sorted it by adding new servers and general changes to the lockout system (as it had not had one for standard five man dungeons before then! Oh Ramparts, how I loathe ye), but restrictions were placed upon group sizes until they got it sorted out (ie, no solo instancing)

Same deal here I'd assume, they are not limiting it as they honestly don't want people to try and solo it, or do it with a member or two less, but just to reduce server load by not opening up extra instances. They did say that after all, and it makes perfect sense - though hopefully in the future they can let folk do so if they wish.

[DGMart]

These are strictly Dungeons, meant partially for leveling up, so yes only one group of 4 or 8 can enter the dungeons at once. These aren't meant to be endgame content that requires an alliance of 4 parties to beat.

I'm pretty sure he was meaning like Dynamis where only one group could go in.

[Colino]

If they are then the dev team is a bunch of morons.

That would be absolutely bonkers, I doubt it.

[Kenji]

Gah, wish I could level up quicker! The first actual content in the game and I'm nowhere near qualified! *monocle pops off*

[PrettyPrincess]

I'm fairly certain that, if you think rationally, you will know that that is just the madness setting in on various posters. They are taking bits and pieces from other MMOs. then do that? Uh huh...yeah. By the way, I don't know if any of you played World of Warcraft just after the release of Wrath of the Lich King (EU side) but for a while it became impossible to enter instances as too many were in play, due to the way the lockout system worked - they eventually sorted it by adding new servers and general changes to the lockout system (as it had not had one for standard five man dungeons before then! Oh Ramparts, how I loathe ye), but restrictions were placed upon group sizes until they got it sorted out (ie, no solo instancing)

Same deal here I'd assume, they are not limiting it as they honestly don't want people to try and solo it, or do it with a member or two less, but just to reduce server load by not opening up extra instances. They did say that after all, and it makes perfect sense - though hopefully in the future they can let folk do so if they wish.

I'm leaning more towards this

[Zanfire]

Luckly you cant solo it, you need a group of 4 or 8 to even enter...which is almost nice, just sucks for the people who do things with smaller groups....or the big shells that are stuck only using 4 or 8 people.

[Malakhim]

I don't know if this has been asked in this thread or anywhere else, and the devs seem to be paying attention to this thread so I'll ask here:

So we all know that the new focus is going to be to a certain extent on soloing, 4-man and 8-man groups. Will there be any possibilities in the future to form sort of an alliance of 2 groups of 8 for certain types of higher order content, or is that just a balancing nightmare/bad idea?

Personally I'm cool with it just being up to 8-man at max. I'll probably be sticking with 4-man style play personally, since to me that's what FF has always been about, but I understand that's just my own style. I'm wondering about the pros/cons of introducing that FFXI-style alliance play into FFXIV.

[RedFox]

I don't know if this has been asked in this thread or anywhere else, and the devs seem to be paying attention to this thread so I'll ask here:

So we all know that the new focus is going to be to a certain extent on soloing, 4-man and 8-man groups. Will there be any possibilities in the future to form sort of an alliance of 2 groups of 8 for certain types of higher order content, or is that just a balancing nightmare/bad idea?

Personally I'm cool with it just being up to 8-man at max. I'll probably be sticking with 4-man style play personally, since to me that's what FF has always been about, but I understand that's just my own style. I'm wondering about the pros/cons of introducing that FFXI-style alliance play into FFXIV.

Yeah there was a thread started regarding this issue.. and of course the Comreps and Devs never replied

[Alise]

Since he mention big PvE before, and he says that raid is not his huge PvE, so I think multiple party is possible.
however, I wonder about his post, did he mean that 1.18 will have 3 dungeon on rank 50? or it is just his wish?