Npc Party Discussion

[Shougun]

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.

I feel it'll be a sort of extension of the squadron system with friendship meters, I doubt they'll let you go into any roulette and I agree with your concern. One thing they might be able to do is if you queue for roulette with the trust system you have to wait and see if the system will have enough people first. So like you wait 10-15 minutes to see if real players want to play, if none then you go with the trust.

Because I think it'll be an extension of squadron like system I doubt they'll allow alliance content either.

I am worried that it's going to mean Squadrons end up on the same scrapheap as the Chocobo Companion.

Also worried.. I really hope SE can put all our companions into logical area of the game that they flow together. It reminds me of other systems that seem duplicated with minor variations lol. My companion should be able to work in my squadron, perhaps trust companions are on timers but upgraded squadron members - and you can use them like charging up a summon in FFX and then bringing out the big guns (Thancred tank > normal squadron tank).