ARR Trusts are boring

[Boblawblah]

I always thought it would be neat instead of generic "storm mage" they'd create 3 or 4 npcs with real names and their own glamour. It's be fun running dungeons with a group of actual named npcs instead of just blank templates. They could give them different glamours each expansion/patch, or change it up as they leveled with you. That'd be cool

[Ravor]

I am shocked we haven't seen any trusts in the cash shop yet. They already have lightning, shantoto, and the guy from 15 in the game.

Dont make this kind of suggestion..... they will start adding npc to hangout in island sanctuary in mog station as well if they start doing that

[Cach]

It was a great chance to breathe some life into the Squadron system but they didn't do it. Disappointing but not surprising.

Those lads are immune to tampering tho. I hope they get themselves a spin-off anime or something.

[Sigma5]

boring and better behaved than actual players.

[kaynide]

Said it before but it bears repeating:

Total lost opportunity NOT to utilize the b-squad Scions like Hoary Boulder and company. There are a few/regularly used side characters that we still bump into that would have been perfect for this.

Even Edda’s party would have been great to make it even more of a rival team for the first few dungeons with a plot point of how they bungled Tam-Tara as you roll up..not just a “oh these NPCs are there to talk to if you want…I guess”.

[Iscah]

Even Edda’s party would have been great to make it even more of a rival team for the first few dungeons with a plot point of how they bungled Tam-Tara as you roll up..not just a “oh these NPCs are there to talk to if you want…I guess”.

It wouldn't work to have Edda's team for all three early dungeons since they "wipe and disband for real" only halfway through the second, but we could definitely have had a mix of the three teams we meet during that early phase.

Sastasha could have been with Edda's team, since they're right there.

Tam-Tara with the team who later die in Copperbell: E'manafa, Dolorous Bear and Kikina. These guys only get one cutscene with us very early on, die off-screen (only reported to us by another group), and turn up much later in the Palace of the Dead, so it would be good to feature them at least once.

By the time we reach Copperbell the only other team alive and intact is Alianne and Isildaure, who can't fill a party on their own, but perhaps we could get Liavinne and/or Paiyo Reiyo from Edda's team.

[kaynide]

It wouldn't work to have Edda's team for all three early dungeons since they "wipe and disband for real" only halfway through the second, but we could definitely have had a mix of the three teams we meet during that early phase.

Sastasha could have been with Edda's team, since they're right there.

Tam-Tara with the team who later die in Copperbell: E'manafa, Dolorous Bear and Kikina. These guys only get one cutscene with us very early on, die off-screen (only reported to us by another group), and turn up much later in the Palace of the Dead, so it would be good to feature them at least once.

By the time we reach Copperbell the only other team alive and intact is Alianne and Isildaure, who can't fill a party on their own, but perhaps we could get Liavinne and/or Paiyo Reiyo from Edda's team.

This is a good way to go with it. It would add some teeth to the story to have early friends get killed and really show that not just anyone can go about the business of adventuring.

[HollowedDoll]

Yeah, they're quite boring, I don't think the trusts were really considered from a story viewpoint.
At the very least they could've given them a name, even Squadrons have more personality, the ugly ARR gear doesn't help either..
It would've been nice to see preexisting characters like Edda and the others brought up above rolled into this mechanic, as I think it would've given a bit of consistency with how the way it works in Heavensward, not to mention just more interesting.

[Allegor]

Imo it would've been interesting if instead they were the "origin story" of the B team Scions (the Boulder bros, Coultenet, Aenor, Clemence, etc). I mean, those guys are supposed to be "our static" while leveling so it just...makes sense if they were actual characters? Idk, call me nitpicky, but it just mildly annoys me even the Scions you knew for 5 mins before ...you know.... had names and dialogues instead of being simply Generic Scion #27

[Iscah]

Imo it would've been interesting if instead they were the "origin story" of the B team Scions (the Boulder bros, Coultenet, Aenor, Clemence, etc). I mean, those guys are supposed to be "our static" while leveling so it just...makes sense if they were actual characters? Idk, call me nitpicky, but it just mildly annoys me even the Scions you knew for 5 mins before ...you know.... had names and dialogues instead of being simply Generic Scion #27

I definitely would have liked the trusts to have names, but I don't think the B-team Scions would work so well because they're introduced to us for the first time later on, so it doesn't really make sense to meet them earlier.

Still, there are plenty of minor adventurers around Revenant's Toll in late ARR that could have had some early cameos.