Quote Originally Posted by RedAffinity View Post
6 = Party

3 Party could link to form an alliance of 18 total.

The enemies in 11 were PERFECTLY balanced.
Balanced for party play you mean...FFXI always was extremely slow for solo play and 2 easy prey monsters could often beat you down. But there monsters were supposed to be stronger than players in every aspect when you compare a characte and a moster of same level because FFXI is a game heavy on party content. If someone go play FFXI willing to solo he's just in the wrong game.

This one instead was planned to be party vs party. We never were meant to be fighting 1 mob at a time unless we are solo...until now i didn't understand why that claim restriction was added in FFXIV...it just removed what would make the party system work as was said right at start. But, anyway, i'm expecting battle adjustments to weaken all characters so maybe the very same monsters will become more challenging.