Tips on dealing with premades in frontlines.

[Newmanxeno]

You can talk to the people you get matched with too...maybe they wanna team up?
Put it into the PF. I joined some random ones at first.

[Nihility]

You don’t need to solo queue for the achievement and mount. I’ve got 60 wins towards both and I never solo queued.
Teaming up isn’t a bad thing guys. Just get some friends to go do it with.
I honestly just started to get more people to play with because I was sick of the bots.

how so?
the achievement says to win the frontline daily challenge and the frontline daily challenge queue says solo only

[Newmanxeno]

how so?
the achievement says to win the frontline daily challenge and the frontline daily challenge queue says solo only

The daily challenge is whatever map it is for the day. The solo queue is for bonus tomes. I just wanted to clear it up so people wouldn’t be scared to queue with friends.
You can test this for yourself tomorrow.

[DrWho2010]

yeah queuing for either the daily challenge in the roulette tab or just whatever the individual map is unlocked for whatever day in the PVP tab will get you ticks up in Front and Center achievements.

[Alien_Gamer]

Lace Valeria asked me to post a few thoughts on this for her.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4310292
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4400213

Though these were written for Shatter at the time, a lot of the info within is generally good for Frontlines overall (considering that Shatter is just a combined version of Secure and Seize)

The only difference between a premade and a pug group is coordination, and coordination is not exclusive to them at all. Exercise teamwork: move together, mark and focus targets, cover each other. Don't try to "base guard"; you're just a lone kill when a team shows up to take it anyways. Don't try to avoid the premade and only play objectives; while you're avoiding and waiting for something to score with, they're scoring off kills and BEING ACTIVE. Be active. Keep that map open and watch enemy movements. Don't ignore Battle Highs/Battle Fevers.

Premades aren't invincible. They're just organized where others are chaotic.

[GrumbleBeard]

This advice is all well and good, but the issue is that many times a good portion of your team is only there for tomes, botting, or experience which pretty much eliminates any attempts at coordination. I feel like now with cross-world friend requests, linkshells, and discord, your best bet is just reaching out to the players who did try and queuing together. This doesn't solve anything for the people who actually like queueing solo though.