Npc Party Discussion

[Bright-Flower]

I'm fine with this to a degree.

Letting people progress through the msq without suffering 30min + queue times if playing a dps is fine.

However, will this really help queue times? Sure a DPS can go in. But theoretically I could get tired of dps in duty finder who don't aoe for trash pulls and start tanking for TRUST partise instead, removing a tank from that pool. I think one way to mitigate this is to not allow TRUST parties for roulettes. You want daily roulette bonuses, you group with a party. Honestly with the TRUST system only applying to ShB duties anyway it would only be able to apply to expert/lvl 80 roulettes anyway. But only allowing you to queue for specific duties and not for roulettes with them would be one way to mitigate this.

My other potential concern is, what all can you use them in? Dungeons and normal mode trials probably aren't a big deal. But if they let you do normal/alliance raids with them, you could go in with no loot competition and no queue, potentially gutting parties with other players. But this is more of a slippery slope concern and so far as I know only ShB dungeons are affected, and I'm fine with that.

There's also a balance to strike. The npcs should be competent, but IMO not better than what players can do. Make them better than someone that doesn't aoe big trash pulls or black mages that just spam fire III/blizzard III etc, but not as good as players who have a solid understanding of their job.