Fc raids

[Sylve]

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I'm thinking it would work more like Leves. Or Treasure Maps, in that the system prevents people outside of your own group from engaging it.

Personally, It'd be way more interesting, from an MMO perspective, to be able to see (for example) a massive Free Company form up in Southern Thanalan, summon Ifrit, get locked in with a flame wall and then watch them battle it out against him.
Likewise, imagine if the first thing you saw coming out of Limsa was 50 people from the same Free Company engaged in battle on the shores with Leviathan.

Dunno about you, but that'd look pretty epic.

[geordie]

I'm thinking it would work more like Leves. Or Treasure Maps, in that the system prevents people outside of your own group from engaging it.

Personally, It'd be way more interesting, from an MMO perspective, to be able to see (for example) a massive Free Company form up in Southern Thanalan, summon Ifrit, get locked in with a flame wall and then watch them battle it out against him.
Likewise, imagine if the first thing you saw coming out of Limsa was 50 people from the same Free Company engaged in battle on the shores with Leviathan.

Dunno about you, but that'd look pretty epic.

This kind of thing does sound cool and would also be nice for a fc activity along with the raids

My reason for making this thread is i am currently reading a series of books called the sanctuary series and they go on 1000 man raids and stuff as a guild so i just wondered if somthing like that could be or would be added to ffxiv

[StouterTaru]

To add in DoH/DoL, they could have bosses guarding gathering points, which would be shared by the FC along with the items gathered from them. Items to gather could be level 1 up to 2/3 star, and could be turned in for some whatevers or used to craft items of various levels to unlock new areas, spawn bosses, or turn in for other whatevers.

[Xatsh]

Me and my guild members would love to see SE add some guild related content that is worth doing that is a not for vanity... already negated gear.

Would actually add a reason to be in a guild. Currently the only things a guild are is a social chat channel, vanity items, and minor buffs which are honestly not even needed.

I greatly disagree with SE's stance on guilds. There should be top tier content that require people to be in them. Guilds are what endgame has been about in mmos for over a decade, they are one of the biggest reasons people play mmos at endgame and do not toss aside the game like offline games. SE stance on guilds are 100% optional and only for social aspects is a really wrong approach to mmo design.

Spawn NMS - Either through Free Company Leves/map style content. 12-24 man raid content (can take any number of people in between 12-24 none of this you need exactly X to enter non-sense) that is not a joke (Aka Coil difficulty 24 raids, designed for guilds to do that drops gear equivalent to BIS gear in coil).

Adding just a few content designed with the guild in mind that are targeted for top tier endgame would do more to keep ppl playing this game at endgame then adding 5 new jobs, 1000 quest and 50 more 4 man dungeons.

As it stands now there is no reason at all to be in a guild for endgame. You can do everything in a small static or in a pug.

[StouterTaru]

Found this while screwing off at work, looks like they have FC exclusive content coming in 2.5 (or later) with the FC airships.

http://www.gamerheadlines.com/2014/1...hip-patch-2-5/

[geordie]

Found this while screwing off at work, looks like they have FC exclusive content coming in 2.5 (or later) with the FC airships.

http://www.gamerheadlines.com/2014/1...hip-patch-2-5/

Stuff like this is what free companies should be about working together as a whole to complete a common goal. With this its good for crafting and gathering but it would still be nice to have somthing similar with raids for dow/dom

[StouterTaru]

There's stuff for DoW/DoM in there, they were just vague about what it is. If it's popular enough, I'm sure they'll expand on it.

You have different content available, like different battles and certain materials that you can only gather and certain areas you can only access by the airship.

[geordie]

There's stuff for DoW/DoM in there, they were just vague about what it is. If it's popular enough, I'm sure they'll expand on it.

Cool i am really looking forward to this now having all the classes inc doh/dol working together

[Atomnium]

In my personal opinion, I would love to see raids contents for FCs but after one year of ARR it seems that Yoshida and DEVs doesn't want to see the small communities of raiders creating strong and big FCs of the said people (for a reason I don't get to be honest).
And that's not like people didn't asked over the last months for the removal of lockouts in coil or at least a personal item lockout in order to build communities of raiders...

But. Nope.
We are still bound to play with (the same) 8 players for raid contents and there is no way to extend or adapt to different situations that players have to face everyday ingame like seeing your static disband after months together (because player A or B quit the game, found a job, changed job, irl stuffs etc).

Furthermore there is no point to have a dedicated FC for Raid contents right now because of the above reasons. Except if you are looking for a "famous" FC name tagged to your character and a glorified chat room stuffed of people that you will never ever raid with .
2.45 was also another nail in this sad coffin, no one use it because of the heavy punishment with loots...

The next question is, will it change for 3.0? or Alexander is going to be Coil with a different name, designed to recluse the same 8 players for months.

[Laesha]

I'd much rather continue to progress with a small group of friends than get forced into some bloated FC in order to access raid content. This is not to say i wouldn't love to see a LoTA or ST Hard mode that would require collaboration between multiple raid groups. I think that would be amazing, and very welcome. I also think that adding some side-content exclusively for FC's is one thing, and is fine (like the primals/airships), but i definitely agree w/ the dev's decision to keep FC's purely optional for all real endgame content. If a self-proclaimed raid FC isn't already prioritizing getting you in a group and/or building their reputation to attract more raiders on their server, then re-evaluate your priorities if your in-game needs aren't being met.