Duty Support And Trust are Literally the same system

[Jandor]

Duty Support, Trust, and Squadrons should all be rolled into one system with one menu IMHO.

• Duty Support as generic filler NPCs with no special perks. They're available for dungeons where no story relevant options are around.
• Trusts as story relevant options. Level them up to unlock glams for them and titles for yourself, plus the ability to use them anywhere if for some reason you really want to run Sastasha with G'raha or whatever.
• Squadron is pretty much the same as Duty Support, but you can recruit particular ones, level them, dress them up, etc. Duty Support but you can customize them basically.

Basically, I feel there is room for all three types of "NPCs that run dungeons with you," but they don't need to be spread out all over the place.

[ICountFrom0]

Sounds good, Maybe when they finish the grand company content, adding those other dungeons hard modes to go with it and return to 2 dungeons per patch set to accomedate it...

(aka, never, sadly).

[DustyBlue]

All I can say is grinding out dungeons by myself just to get them up another 10 levels again starting with only the first dungeon over and over again is really tedious and something I'm not looking forward to, but dread that I will do anyway out of boredom and a goal to pursue. But at least I can use them to level up desynthesis faster...

It's odd that you would even need to level them since you can take any of them with you the first run of the dungeon, point blank, no conditions. Aren't they all level ??? anyway?

I also hoped that Duty Support would at least have had named characters, not stock generic nameless ones with even less identity than squadron NPCs. This was the perfect opportunity for Hoary Boulder to shine, no?

[JepMZ]

Trusts give you that technical real-world lore progression feeling that the scions are slowly leveling up with you thru repetition which is part of mmo gameplay. Duty support is strictly there for when the mmo does and you at least will have no problems queuing dungeons immediately.