Grand Company Ranks: Are they being ignored for the foreseeable future?

[Hasrat]

I would expect not, simply for the lore-absurdity of an adventurer rising to high ranks in the military despite only intermittently (at best) being involved with said military.

[Azuri]

I think GC membership is one of those systems that wasn't taken out back and shot for the sole reason that untying it from ARR MSQ requires too much effort. I don't expect it will ever be expanded.

[Big_Bap]

See ya in 2045 at this rate.

[Floortank]

I hope they do expand, there's some cool stuff they could do, as you rise up the ranks you could be commanding a grand company outpost (in some area of the grand company's region you haven't been to). you could slowly expand the outpost and command your troops to do various things, not sure exactly how it would work, I'm not a game designer, but I do hope we some some new functionality added to the grand companies in the future. I do think they're going to have to come up with something new to continue grand companies though, the squadron system. is kinda obsolete at this point.

Will you be able to use it to farm shit tons of gil and acquire every NPC in the game as your personal minion?

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Maybe next expansion?

[StriderShinryu]

We already do have a couple of pathways for further progression, that being future loot boxes and further development in the squadron system to include post level 60 content and a better dovetail into the Trust system (or just complete Trust system integration with Squadrons. It would also be nice to see a new tier/design for GC oriented gear. They did say that one of the reasons they haven't advanced the GC system at all is because they didn't know what to do with it and what to offer.. but now they do so hopefully they'll make good on allowing further upgrading.

[Haseno]

Grand Company Ranks definitely needs some reform so that it scales to your level. The Squadron doesn't have to do this, but the ranks itself does.

[Seraphor]

The squadron system would need a rework to facilitate more ranks, seeing as how they now gate anything above 2nd Lt.

They should probably be made a mandatory quest at lvl 15 and turned into the "trusts" for level 15-70 content. With a "send for your squadron" option for the first attempt at any msq dungeons.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

I imagine an update will come in 6.*

I'd love an excuse to engage with the ranks again.

[Lunalepsy]

They should add GvG content.