Party size reduction a good change?

[Jinko]

not everyone has a mouse at their disposal that can be used efficiently for gaming. Also, the ingame mouse is still kinda crappy....I hate playing with mouse.

Wait we are all playing on PC's so how is that possible.. my mouse cursor works just fine.

[Dubont]

Wait we are all playing on PC's so how is that possible.. my mouse cursor works just fine.

<--laptop so I have to use a trackpad (which works fine in other games such as RoM and LoL...even SC2) but with FFXIV...something's not right lol it's still too slow for me. I'd rather be able to target people like I could in FFXI. I never once had to use a mouse for that game and 14 should be no different.

[Aistaraina]

You can easily target people by clicking their name in the party list with a mouse, also pressing the number key which has Cure assigned and then clicking said person in party list will heal them, it couldn't be any easier, of course if you insist on playing with a controller then who's to blame for that ?

Give what I suggested a try and you will see just how easy it is to target people as a healer.

FFXIV uses a software mouse for whatever reason. It is slow, and inefficient. There is no reason I should have to use it when the keyboard will suffice, and be far faster to use. If i'm in a battle, more specifically a high level battle, I shouldn't have to take my hand away from my abilities. To reach over, grab the mouse, select someone from the list, use ability, let's say takes 3-4 seconds. I can easily do that in less than half that on a keyboard. Which can be the difference between getting the tank healed for the next hit, or him dying.

What you're suggesting is like taking Hotkeys out of StarCraft 2.

[Arcell]

TThere is an option in the config for hardware mouse you know.

[Aistaraina]

TThere is an option in the config for hardware mouse you know.

Good to know. Thank you. I completely missed that when playing with my settings. I'll see how much of a difference it makes later. Regardless though, everything should be hotkeyed. There is no excuse.

[Mikita]

Rather than reducing the hard limit on party sizes, I wish they would balance the strength of the behest and leve monsters as well as make the boss monsters stronger and more interesting that typical roaming mobs.

Our LS often has more than 8 people who want to play together so this change will really mess us up. It's not about maxing SP. It's not about getting drops. It's about having fun with all of our friends, and the party cap is going to limit that. ><

[Fleur]

Aw, kinda sad about the party size change. I can see why they do it and we will get used to it I'm sure, though it is fun to do things in large groups sometimes. And on the occasion that my LS has more than 8 people who want to do a NM, there is never anywhere near enough to form two parties like many people have suggested.

[Magiksmurf]

They should keep 15 man parties for NM's and some future raids.

[Chardrizard]

You can already kill everything with 6-8 people right now without even rebalancing them, i still don't see why people are so adamant with 15man, 15man creates nothing but zerg-fest, do people even care about rage timer when they have 15 members? lol

[Mishakai]

Well, best I can tell, my entire LS is pretty upset about the group size change.. Apparently the vocal minority wins, since a majority of the people who like things as they are, are not posting on the official forums. On the bright side, the reduced party cap will make it easier to fill a group with the declining population.