Any word on more GC Ranks?

[Voltron_HD]

Ive been looking around and haven't seen anything. Im assuming with the expansion you would get more ranks (and possible some awesome new GC Gear ) but ive seen no news....Also with what has happened story wise, how would you rank up your GC if youre in Ishgard???? Excuse me, ima take a break of defending Ishgard to go be a Flame Champion for an Immortal flames who have no control over Uldah anymore.....

[sciondar]

I'd imagine there will be an increase since they already have the icons on the grand company vendors for higher ranks. Whether they implement it at launch or shortly after is to be seen. My hope is at launch since we'll have new fates to tackle. It is surprising they haven't mentioned it though.

[HakuroDK]

I'm willing to bet that there'll be more GC ranks every time the level cap increases.

[Voltron_HD]

That would be pretty sweet!, so I guess by the looks of it we have 3 expansions left (if we were to go by that)(sounds good to me)

[ChiiSoSeriouz]

I'd imagine there will be an increase since they already have the icons on the grand company vendors for higher ranks.

This^, The ranks are already there. I'm hoping 1LT and CPT will be made available for the expansion. The next tier after that should be MAJ, LTC and COL. But considering how long we've been capped at 2LT, that will be awhile.

Also with what has happened story wise, how would you rank up your GC if youre in Ishgard???? Excuse me, ima take a break of defending Ishgard to go be a Flame Champion for an Immortal flames who have no control over Uldah anymore.....

I think story wise a rank increase is due. You already report directly to the General/Admiral, in most cases a 2LT wouldn't do that. With how directly involved you are with everything, main story and also the beast tribe relations, 2LT is really a lower rank. It's an officer yes, but the lowest one. CPT or MAJ at this point would be more fitting.

[Naria]

I've been a 2nd Serpent Lt. since before the 1.0 servers went offline. I kept hoping they would add more ranks each update of ARR, but at this point I think the GCs have joined musketeer in development hell.

[Nalien]

I kept hoping they would add more ranks each update of ARR, but at this point I think the GCs have joined musketeer in development hell.

Don't forget Free Company Primal Summoning... That exciting piece of content has been in development limbo for far too long now...

At this point I don't think I really mind though... I mean they're not doing anything with Grand Companies anyway... I'd like more Ranks, sure, but I'd still much rather have something along the lines of Conquest (FFXI) or Campaign (FFXI: Wings of the Goddess) to actually give Grand Companies and their Ranks some form of purpose... Instead Ranks have just been a fairly easy quest with Seal grind, it's actually kind of pathetic...

Very least I'd like is for them to overhaul Grand Company Levequests to the point where they're worth doing... In my opinion the Grand Company Levequests should have been "endgame" Levequests, not more of the same but with Seal rewards instead... Worse still the Seal reward isn't even worthwhile, it's pathetic compared to virtually every other piece of content you could do instead to farm Seals...

[Voltron_HD]

I've been a 2nd Serpent Lt. since before the 1.0 servers went offline. I kept hoping they would add more ranks each update of ARR, but at this point I think the GCs have joined musketeer in development hell.

LOL well heres to hoping new ranks come out. Im really just wanting more GC gear. I may be the only one, but I like glamouring it on occasionally and if its coming out so late, maybe its ilevel will be 110 or higher.

[Chihaya]

All the ranks are in game already... just whether when they want to release them

[aerialrave]

Been waiting a long time for this as well.
I hope they overhaul the GC shops too. Right now the prices seem out of whack.