[Devs] Add high-end content for light party too, please

[TheVedis]

Why base rewards on number of PT members? If they can balance it so difficulty is around the same (failure rate is similar to the 8 man version's) rewards should be the same too.

Hard as it is I wish they could do proper balancing for anywhere between 4 and 8 people...

with less options for what classes you can bring into a fight with 4 man, it can be just as difficult if not moreso if done right

i mean right off the bat

8 man fight= 1-2 tanks, 1-2 healers, 4-6 dd

4 man fight
1 tank
1 healer(maybe even 2)
2 dd


the fight can be more demanding if you dont have that extra healer to keep things going if 1 goes down or runs low on mana, so in a 4 man fight it can go wrong in so many more ways

[Bahn]

We checked in with Yoshida in regards to the desire to see high-end content for Light Parties as well. He let us know that they're planning further adjustments and will start off with the Dzemael Darkhold that will allow Light Parties to challenge it. He said that they're also looking into implementing a 4-person version of the Ifrit battle (Hard) in the future by making adjustments and refinements to the battle itself.

Yes, yes YES. That is exactly what I wanted to hear. Thank you so much. Content should NOT be locked off if you don't have eight player parties. More choice = more stuff to do = happier population = higher retention rate. Thank you so much!

[Darkrose]

You know what solved all this problem? Add in an Instances Que like all game right now are doing. This way people don't have to sit around, or don't even need large Linkshell to do high level group contents.

Que as Solo: You can que as yourself and will be added to the next available group. If your job is Tank build your role will be Tank automatic. If you're DPS you be DPS.

Que as Group: You already form a party but missing just a few people so now you que in as a Group for the next few people to form the group.

Now everyone is happy. I hope it is like this in 2.0. Many time I find it frustrating all this 8 people Contents and small Linkshell will not get in the action. FFXIV doesn't even have a world chat so picking up group is even hard.

[syntaxlies]

Very cool, considering I never finished the quest for DH because I couldn't stand the mechanics of training everything through the instance. I hope we can see future instances released with both 4 and 8 person party configurations supported. Let's just hope that they are rebalancing the fights in DH (especially Ogre) since they seemed like they weren't scaled down at all to accommodate for the abolishment of physical levels.

we killed ogre in about 30 seconds the other day with people who have never even done it, on top of that we also kill batraal.

[BlaiseLallaise]

Yea, I had in mind different content special just for light pt with different items... >_<

Devs, you should add new content for 4/4 party instead of making ifrit's and mog or dh's - light versions. Does not make sense.

I think there should be high lvl "instanced" content for both type of parties for light and full, but not the same. Especially with same rewards.

It doesn't make sense to allow people who prefer light-party play to experience the same epic content as those who enjoy full-party play? I don't follow.