Grand Companies

[Kalise]

So... When will we be getting the next promotion(s) available for Grand Companies?

Since the game data still has 8 further ranks that are not available (Ranging from Second X Commander to X Champion)

Also, hopefully the next promotion won't be just another "Send squadron on mission, get promoted"

Would be nice to get some more stuff to spend Company Seals on too. More cool weapons/armour, emotes, minions, decorations, consumables etc.

Especially given that the incoming Trust system sounds an awful lot like Squadron Command Missions...

[Bright-Flower]

Whenever they have something new game play wise for us to do with them. They're not going to just throw it in for the sake of having it. Whether it's for more advanced squadron stuff or something else.

It kinda makes sense though to have something to do with squadroms, as we're in pretty high ranks now and it makes sense for us to be commanding forces. It would seem odd to me if we left that aspect behind to do something else to promote unless it was also leadership related.

[Kalise]

Whenever they have something new game play wise for us to do with them. They're not going to just throw it in for the sake of having it. Whether it's for more advanced squadron stuff or something else.

It kinda makes sense though to have something to do with squadroms, as we're in pretty high ranks now and it makes sense for us to be commanding forces. It would seem odd to me if we left that aspect behind to do something else to promote unless it was also leadership related.

I'd have thought a Command mission would have made some more sense. What with then showing that we can lead our forces in the field too. Not to mention the whole Trust system they're bringing in that seems to be just Squadrons but with characters you actually know of.

Rather than just sending them off to go do their thing and being promoted because of that. To say nothing about other tasks that would have made sense, such as when we did that Grand Company Melee thing in Ishgard. Or when we went through the Ghimlyt Dark alongside the Grand Company forces (Though we were sent with the Doman squad to make them feel safer).

At what point does our squadron start to reflect more on their own performance than ours

[Bright-Flower]

I'd have thought a Command mission would have made some more sense. What with then showing that we can lead our forces in the field too. Not to mention the whole Trust system they're bringing in that seems to be just Squadrons but with characters you actually know of.

Rather than just sending them off to go do their thing and being promoted because of that. To say nothing about other tasks that would have made sense, such as when we did that Grand Company Melee thing in Ishgard. Or when we went through the Ghimlyt Dark alongside the Grand Company forces (Though we were sent with the Doman squad to make them feel safer).

At what point does our squadron start to reflect more on their own performance than ours

Because we're only acting as part of a grand company when doing GC stuff. In the Ghymlit Dark you were the 'warrior of light' fighting alongside the Alliance, not a Flame/Maelstrom/Adders commander on the field.

Once you get into higher ranks, being on the front lines ceases to be desirable. Raubahn is a capable general but even he says his place is back at command and not on the front line even if he wants to be there. During the battle of Cartineaux he wasn't on the front line but commanding from a safe distance.

Being a leader isn't about kicking ass on the front lines but managing the resources and personnel at your disposal effectively.

I don't see why the grand melee thing would be something a GC would promote you for, sure you did well but you did it outside of your GC duties. It makes sense to me that the thigns you get promoted for are things you do for the GC.

Though things are admittedly already a bit weird because the GCs hold no real sway over you. You're free to run around as you please no matter your rank and it can't have any real bearing on the msq aside from your rank being mentioned because the writers have to accomodate for people who have maxed out everything GC wise and people who only joined one because the msq made then and didn't touch anything after getting their chocobo.

[Ameela]

If they keep up the pattern then the new rank will be added in 2 years with the release of 5.4

[manamoppet]

Maybe if they start to add 8-man squadrons with matching content, they'll add the rest of the titles? Then I'm thinking we'll also get a mini-game to fill out in triplicate (tomes of) forms and regulations for the highest officer ranks

It would be cool if we could start to recommend members of our troop to be "promoted" so that some of them could get their own subtroops, instead of just dismissing them. There's that island that's used by the Maelstrom to train troops, the Hullbreaker Isle (Hard), where we fight a Storm Marshal, though that's light party, not full party. If we get control over a full Alliance, not just a full party, maybe a solo "trial" where we're pitted against our own squadron could be something, sort of like a training excercise. As Kalise said,

To say nothing about other tasks that would have made sense, such as when we did that Grand Company Melee thing in Ishgard. Or when we went through the Ghimlyt Dark alongside the Grand Company forces (Though we were sent with the Doman squad to make them feel safer).

At what point does our squadron start to reflect more on their own performance than ours

There's also those events on the Azim Steppe.

[Daralii]

Maybe if they start to add 8-man squadrons with matching content, they'll add the rest of the titles? Then I'm thinking we'll also get a mini-game to fill out in triplicate (tomes of) forms and regulations for the highest officer ranks

It would be cool if we could start to recommend members of our troop to be "promoted" so that some of them could get their own subtroops, instead of just dismissing them. There's that island that's used by the Maelstrom to train troops, the Hullbreaker Isle (Hard), where we fight a Storm Marshal, though that's light party, not full party. If we get control over a full Alliance, not just a full party, maybe a solo "trial" where we're pitted against our own squadron could be something, sort of like a training excercise. As Kalise said,

Halatali HM is used for a similar purpose by the Flames. It's just the Adders that don't have a comparable training ground.

[manamoppet]

Halatali HM is used for a similar purpose by the Flames. It's just the Adders that don't have a comparable training ground.

I hope that gets rectified someday, but I guess the Elementals wouldn't like having an area like that in the Black Shroud. The only place I can think of where it would be possible to set something like that up would be behind the Black Boar gate.

[Daralii]

I hope that gets rectified someday, but I guess the Elementals wouldn't like having an area like that in the Black Shroud. The only place I can think of where it would be possible to set something like that up would be behind the Black Boar gate.

Maybe part of West Shroud, since they already permit a Feast map there.

[Hasrat]

Any higher and they'll start expecting us to submit actual paperwork.

No, but really, some of the higher ranks almost seem like they'd be better off reserved for special NPCs.