Quality of Life Suggestion: Instanced Duties Fix

[Evogolist]

Let's be honest, doing solo instanced duties, while easy enough to beat solo, can be a pain when you're running the MSQ with a group of friends. So I was wondering if it would be possible in a future patch to either 1) Allow us to enter said duty without having to disband from our party, or 2) Allow us to enter the duty with our friends/party members.

I know that with the second suggestion there would have to be some sort of scaling introduced in order to match party size, but it just seems really tedious to have to constantly disband every time there's a solo instance and would be really helpful to those of us who like to enjoy the MSQ with friends/FC members.

[Lelila38]

Been requested since beta, at this point it's probably not happening anymore.
I always felt it was kinda ridiculous how a multiplayer game constantly forces you into solo content, when doing main story quest. It's really annoying when you're trying to do it with a friend and have to keep disbanding and reforming your group every other quest.

[Aniond]

I would like just to bring my chocobo.

[Evogolist]

Been requested since beta, at this point it's probably not happening anymore.
I always felt it was kinda ridiculous how a multiplayer game constantly forces you into solo content, when doing main story quest. It's really annoying when you're trying to do it with a friend and have to keep disbanding and reforming your group every other quest.

I kinda feel the same way. But I figured since they're finally taking a look and working on stuff that we've been asking for for years, maybe this would be a good chance. I mean we're still like a year or so away from 5.0 with a possible announcement for the next expansion some time during this year's fan festival so it'd be nice if it was something that they could at least consider looking into.

[Lelila38]

I kinda feel the same way. But I figured since they're finally taking a look and working on stuff that we've been asking for for years, maybe this would be a good chance. I mean we're still like a year or so away from 5.0 with a possible announcement for the next expansion some time during this year's fan festival so it'd be nice if it was something that they could at least consider looking into.

Guess asking doesn't hurt. Just don't get your hopes up.

[Rufalus]

Since it is solo content you can avoid having to keep disbanding party by not forming party to begin with. Can still communicate with friends by creating a linkshell and adding them to it. This way you can talk without frequently forming and disbanding parties. Avoid using the party system if you know ahead of time that you are doing solo content.

[Zojha]

Considering how many people yelled "MMO!" in that other thread where one guy was complaining about having to party up for gold Ixion credit in spite of fully participating in the FATE, I'd expect this thread to be filled with agreement on the OP's proposal.

Time will tell.

Personally, I think it's long overdue.

[Vidu]

Since it is solo content you can avoid having to keep disbanding party by not forming party to begin with. Can still communicate with friends by creating a linkshell and adding them to it. This way you can talk without frequently forming and disbanding parties. Avoid using the party system if you know ahead of time that you are doing solo content.

Just in respond to this: I'm doing most story content with my boyfriend - in order to share teleports and two-seater mounts we're always in a party for that sort of content, even though we've got a linkshell to talk in and most of the time Discord running aswell. So this isnt a complete fix.

On the other hand I dont see how they could change the system.
OPs suggestion 1 (allowing to enter without having to disband the party) would probably require an overhaul of the whole system to fix a minor inconvience
OPs suggestion 2 (allowing to enter solo-duties as a party) is something I absolutly dont want to see. Even with mob/HP-scaling depending on your actual party-size it would remove the last solo-test we're having in this game. Yes, it is an MMO and yes, those solo-duties are mostly a joke too, I know that. But there is the odd solo-instance that requires some "skill" or at least awareness and the player to actually do something and prove themself. Even if that player is an ice-mage, a no-dot-bard, or a melee-class hitting only one button. Please, lets keep some tests that everyone has to fight for themself and has the chance to improve in the process...