8 man "raids" = final content?

[Nakaress]

Sounds like the OP needs to go back to WoW. I left that game because 20-man Mythic became the standard and my 10-man Heroic option (ya know, 10-man Mythic now) was obliterated going into WoD. I'm super casual now but maybe I try a static sometime in the future but as it stands, I like the 8-man only raids here. I'll try some in HW.

[MXMoondoggie]

Super big raids just seem archaic now anyway it's a really old concept to have mass groups doing a raid and they were never all that fun in the first place. 8 is a good number for a group to try to get everyone on the same page working together. Everyone does their part and deserves their loot. In these giant raids in other games it just feels like a zerg fest you throw enough bodies and you win eventually. What i always found is there was the core group of players in the raid who did most of the work while the rest were cling ons and leechers barely doing anything most were just there because they had a friend in that core group who could get them in the raid so they can have some loot.

I don't really care much for the "it's who you know" mentality in MMO's for leechers as it is we don't need to bring all that mass raid culture over to FFXIV too.

[shiroxkatsuya]

Have you ever led a 25 man or 40 man raid before?? i am gonna guess no. It is a pain in the ass. It is difficult enough to put together 8 people who know there jobs, but 24?? yeah not happening.

[DarkmoonVael]

Its hard enough finding 8 competent people with the skills to progress through the most difficult content whilst being undergeared for it. Now multiply this by 3, and have fun finding 24 skilled, dedicated competent people.

[Seku]

Because 24 man parties is pretty tedious and gets pretty annoying. One of the reasons I don't like going into towers is because you have people that will place their DPS over mechanics and whipe the entire group. Waiting on the majority of the 24 people gets annoying as well. If they do consider making more 24-man content, a kick alliance needs to be made and the option to create the entire 24 man party. A good example of as to why they need to be implemented is actually the first Crystal tower as it's really easy to make it to where you cannot proceed without the cooperation of your members. Now imagine a troll alliance not standing on pads during Atmos or the final boss or killing skeletons right next to the bone dragon.