[Suggestion] - Allow us to recruit Beast Tribe members to our Squadron!

[Stormfur]

I feel bad for the beast tribes. Here I've helped them with everything from stopping the summoning of a primal, to helping them carve out a home on a floating island, to rebuilding trade networks in a city.

But once all that is done, I never see or interact with them again.

One of my all-time favorite games is Dragon Age Origins. Near the end of the game, you have NPCs join you. Depending on how much you donate to their respective group or clan, it affects how well they fight in the final battle.

The closest thing we have in FFXIV is our squadron. And sometimes they arrive in funny costumes. But I miss our beast tribe friends. I'd like to recruit Lupin, Vanu Vanu, Gnath, etc. They already have fighting and casting animations. Perhaps we so inspired them with our bravery and you know, helping them rebuild, that they were emboldened to join us.

As it stands right now, it just seems like we do their fetch quests or whatnot, and we're done.

[Lolli282]

This would be awesome

[Stormfur]

This will probably never see the attention of a developer but I'll write it nonetheless.

I just feel like, as the Warrior of Light, I'm tasked with helping the downtrodden, the wronged, the hurt... but why can't they help me, too? Are they really so helpless? I don't think they are. Especially if they band together. I wish our Beast Tribes had more of a role to play than just quest repositories for "fetch this, run this errand, kill this monster."

I know the devs said the reason they won't let us fantasia our squadron members is because they want us to become attached to them and work with what we have, but I could not care less about my squad members as they are right now. They seem like more of a gag in their snowman suits than something I'd want to take into battle with me. Beast tribes on the other hand...I'd take them more seriously -- they've summoned primals, after all!