Why are NPC parties so bad?

[Supersnow845]

The problem is that squadrons require getting your Grand Company rank up enough to unlock them, plus farming the weekly challenge log until it decides to give you more recruits. They'd have to redo that entire process. Evidently they just decided that a handful of set NPCs was easier to manage.

There's also the story problem that, at least in HW, the Grand Companies can't openly support the Scions for a while because of the whole mess in Ul'dah.

off topic but did anyone actually believe that the WOL had actually committed regicide

The crystal braves had sunk their teeth into the immortal flames which is why uldah itself was unsafe but both merleweb and kan-e-sanna both basically go “we always know it was bullshit and that was always our nations stance”

Like they fled to ishgard because they were being hunted in uldah but would the population have believed this random blue militia over the beloved WOL saviour of the realm

It always struck me as a plot point that didn’t really hold up to scrutiny

[TheMightyMollusk]

off topic but did anyone actually believe that the WOL had actually committed regicide

The crystal braves had sunk their teeth into the immortal flames which is why uldah itself was unsafe but both merleweb and kan-e-sanna both basically go “we always know it was bullshit and that was always our nations stance”

Like they fled to ishgard because they were being hunted in uldah but would the population have believed this random blue militia over the beloved WOL saviour of the realm

It always struck me as a plot point that didn’t really hold up to scrutiny

The only ones who seemed to buy it were the Crystal Brave grunts. And if you talk to them during the exile period, they'll make it pretty blatantly obvious that they're too scared shitless of fighting the Eikon Slayer to actually do anything about it.