Party size reduction a good change?

[Shiyo]

Party size change is great! It means less zerging weak mobs and harder fights ^-^

[Kazimir]

It is good in certain situations, but for endgame content, and endgame LS's it's a very poor move.

[Shika]

It is good in certain situations, but for endgame content, and endgame LS's it's a very poor move.

That's only assuming that you cannot alliance, or have more than one party/alliance in endgame content areas working together. Who knows...
I'm glad of the party size reduction personally- less throwing numbers at mobs, and hopefully more strategy instead.

[Chardrizard]

very welcomed change.

[Corrderio]

I never liked huge parties since the more people = the more of a likely chance someone will f*ck up.

[Eekiki]

I'm all for this. This is how they should have done it instead of nerfing exp for 9+ PT's.

It looks to me from the 1.17 notes, and the post about 2hr abilities in the dev tracker that SE is working hard to balance challenge with UI and gameplay streamlining. Seems like things are finally going to start getting interesting in Eorzea in the next couple months...but I've said that before...

[Alcide]

I'm all for this. This is how they should have done it instead of nerfing exp for 9+ PT's.

I guess it was just to make us used to the new party system before implementing it and IMHO it worked well, I didn't have a 9+ party since that patch so I don't really feel a difference (aside from NM)

Actually I hope they work this way for all of the fixes, drastic changes all at once are never a good thing :/ people need some time to understand and get used to new things

[Moth]

I am all for these smaller parties, the only thing that worries me is obviously if there are extreme endgame content in the future similar to XI's Dynamis and very difficult HNMs you cannot do these things with just 8 people. Perhaps they will add an alliance feature just like XI as well O: I am all for that.

[Arcell]

I am all for these smaller parties, the only thing that worries me is obviously if there are extreme endgame content in the future similar to XI's Dynamis and very difficult HNMs you cannot do these things with just 8 people. Perhaps they will add an alliance feature just like XI as well O: I am all for that.

Or just make endgame that is just as challenging for 8 people at a time.

[Corrderio]

Or just make endgame that is just as challenging for 8 people at a time.

I'm pretty sure this is Yoshsida's intention. I can't remember if it was in an interview or the letter where he mentioned a lot of MMOs are going from huge guilds to a small close knit group of friends/etc. and that was the direction he felt like going.