Anyone feel nostalgic for larger scale raid?

[Colorful]

Aren't they bringing this back with Airships? My bar is set pretty low right now to avoid another disappointment but we could be getting Sky-esque raids in 3.1.

No one but the developers really know, but in the recent Duty Commenced they gave fly through the area and and it really doesn't look comparable to raids in WoW or whatever. It's just a bunch of islands surrounding a giant crystal thing, it's obviously going to be more and we'll find out at the FATE event, but that's what we've been given.

[Magis]

No one but the developers really know, but in the recent Duty Commenced they gave fly through the area and and it really doesn't look comparable to raids in WoW or whatever. It's just a bunch of islands surrounding a giant crystal thing, it's obviously going to be more and we'll find out at the FATE event, but that's what we've been given.

Well, it's comparable to NMs from FFXI not a raid like WoW. So a big monster that you have to take down vs going through a giant raid dungeon. This is assuming that is what they are going for.

[Colorful]

Well, it's comparable to NMs from FFXI not a raid like WoW. So a big monster that you have to take down vs going through a giant raid dungeon. This is assuming that is what they are going for.

I've heard NMs are a joke but HNMs are difficult and actually require coordination or you wipe, if it's filled with HMN-like monsters I'll be a happy camper but unfortunately I'm leaning on they're going to use it as a replacement/alternative for Hunts. What I mean is a concentrated area with hunts that spawn constantly and relatively close to each other, where you don't get yelled at for pulling early and whatnot. That sounds great, if it were hunts, but I'm sure most of us don't want that. Something on par with Alexander normal in difficulty maybe, I'd say EX primals but that's wholly unrealistic.

I'll refrain from making any more pessimistic comments until we learn about how it actually works though. I really hope I'm wrong. Random nitpick though, I'm disappointed we're going to be flying around with flying mounts instead of airships, I thought it would be fun piloting an airship.

[Nadirah]

I don't know about the "average FC" but in my FC we could never do a 24 man Raid because we never have that many Raid players on at the times most of us play. I like the harder content being the 8 man although one day I hope they will up it to 10...I think that would be just right. 24 is just a cluster "F" and would be a nightmare...even if they are all FC members or static members. Just my thoughts.

Pretty much this.

In fact, we tried to get an 8 player static started. There's an incredibly vocal "raid hater" segment here.

[Cidel]

I would like them to dabble a bit with the idea of (challenging) 16-man content to see how the community responds to it. The more they drift away from this "8 people, no more, no less" shtick, the more faith I'll have again in the social aspect/1st "M" of this "MMORPG".

When they release Airship Explorations that can accommodate up to 24 people; we'll see just how well things go and if it turns out to be any sort of "cluster 'F' and "scheduling nightmare" for people who do have the numbers or decide to, I dunno, recruit for a FC, or even a Linkshell (I know, right? crazy) with this specific content in mind.