New Grand Companies for Ala Mhigo, Doma and Ishgard

[dustdjinn]

I personally love the cool outfits and special items you get from your grand companies and I would love them to do more of that for the other three countries. Do we think they are going to rework and add these three to the team?

[WaterShield]

Probably not, though it'd be cool. Not super high on my priority list for features.

[Heliantheae]

I am all for Ishgard anything.

[Tatiana]

Actually yeah this would be really cool! I would totally switch to Ala Mhigo!

[linay]

They would have to change frontline and alliance raid. They're based on having three GC, well, frontline at least, not sure about alliance raid.

[Enkidoh]

Also there is actually little reason now for the GCs even to exist as seperate organizations but as sections of the unified Eorzean Alliance - their whole purpose is long redundant as they were established originally to consolidate the three citystates' resources and manpower in the lead up to the Calamity, as prior to that Gridania, Limsa Lominsa and Ul'dah did not have actual formal standing armies but token militias that were glorified police services and little else (and thus were in no position to defend themselves against an outside aggressor - read: Garlemald).

And in relation to that, Ishgard, Ala Mhigo and Doma are not in the same position as the other city states (Ishgard has no need for a Grand Company as it has had a full standing army that was fully mobilized for the Dragonsong War for a thousand years which is now over, and Ala Mhigo's forces are still organized formally as the Ala Mhigan Resistance. Doma perhaps is the one with the greatest need, as their resistance force was much smaller, but they're concentrating on rebuilding the city itself and even then, they're more content with any assistance given to be directly given to the people and not maintaining a paramilitary organization deployed on foreign soil.).

Hence, I hate to say it but you won't see any expansion of the Grand Companies to other cities (after all remember what happened last time lore wise a new Grand Company was added).

[Theodric]

I wouldn't want them to be implemented as Grand Companies. Aside from the risk of the story getting very boring if Eorzea dominates every corner of the game world, all we really need is for each nation to have a specific Custom Delivery NPC that you forge a bond with and in exchange they give you various items tied to their home nation such as flags, banners and glamour outfits.

I'd like that very much for Garlemald and Hingashi.

[Kharn]

Once upon a time, we were hinted at potentially getting an Ishgard GC alongside Ishgard housing. Similar teases at fanfests, like Blitzball, never came to pass despite how nice of ideas these are.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I would love to see a dark knight joining the Temple Knights.

[DumdogsWorld]

Just imagine joining the Ala Mhigan ranks!

When the healer in your party makes you angry, you can just slap a restraint collar on them and yell SLOPPEH!!