[dev1020] Party system changes. The maximum party size.

[Xeno]

I like the idea of making normal groups smaller and having things for 4 and 8 person groups but I am completely against getting rid of 15 person battles entirely. It sounds to me like they want to make endgame content for a max of 8 people parties as well. This may improve ranking up and grouping for SP, but it would seriously ruin endgame.

The reason why I play XIV is because I thought it would have a similar endgame to XI in that the fights would be difficult, and would be large battles against strong foes. Reducing the party size to an 8 player max would make doing the endgame content boring, and would pretty much ruin the endgame LS community. With an 8 player max there will be a lot of people left out of the fights. I loved the fact that in XI we could take 12-18 people and go kill Tiamat or do Einherjar, Or get 2 groups of 30 members in sky or sea. Do you see any other MMO's with a max party size so low? I haven't played one, probably because those that play an MMO for years and actually do endgame prefer doing things in larger groups.

I have absolutely no issue with reducing party size to 8 people for leveling/questing reasons, or even smaller endgame content. But please for the love of all that is FF do not get rid of 15 man endgame content. A huge portion of your player base prefers to have large-man battles like we had in XI, WoW, Aion, or any other number of MMO's out there. I understand the population is low, but a good endgame LS has no issue getting 15 people together for NM's. My LS does it all the time and so do the other endgame LS's on my server. The one's that can't are just bad at recruiting players.

Skill and experience going to all parties, and loot going to only the first party to deal damage to an enemy.

This is the way they are going to follow. Something tells me that they aren't trying to do away with fun endgame content. They are just trying to make it easier to party.