Are static groups simply the now accepted reality for endgame progression?

[Bluefox]

I agree with you OP. Currently the game, not just BcoB feels rather static / split in the community.
Little static groups of friends in my guild now refuse to help others, this current system seems to support this idea of only helping yourself and your select few buddies and not helping the guild as a whole, to forebode community play and just go with 7 others is not the type of game i came to enjoy from XI 04~09 (Que in "Well go back to xi" reply)

To give an idea of how i saw and enjoyed community's style endgame compared to this. In a guild from xi we would run sea / sky on set days a week, then run dynamis on every sunday / thurs. Not everyone's gear would drop but to the players who would show up to these events consistently would get there items for there main class and everyone would be happy to see a fellow member get better gear. (cont. )

[Bluefox]

Currently what I'm seeing in my current community is the officers are full darklight / titan weapons, while the other lv50 members are struggling to get any darklight and some are having trouble with garuda, but because of them not being in the little click of 8 people within the guild, the higher geared members are not helping them at all.

This current system is toxic to a community style of play and only allows people to pick 7 friends to play with threw all of endgame, why even have a guild system in-game if you only design content for 8 people. (Square raise the text cap srsly.)

[Bizniztyme]

Currently what I'm seeing in my current community is the officers are full darklight / titan weapons, while the other lv50 members are struggling to get any darklight and some are having trouble with garuda, but because of them not being in the little click of 8 people within the guild, the higher geared members are not helping them at all.

This current system is toxic to a community style of play and only allows people to pick 7 friends to play with threw all of endgame, why even have a guild system in-game if you only design content for 8 people. (Square raise the text cap srsly.)

This is nothing new, this happens in every single MMORPG, no matter what you do, there will always be clicks.

[Bluefox]

This is nothing new, this happens in every single MMORPG, no matter what you do, there will always be clicks.

While this is true, clicks are always a thing. What isnt helping is that the endgame supports this, over allowing the players to form a community to help each other.

[oda]

While this is true, clicks are always a thing. What isnt helping is that the endgame supports this, over allowing the players to form a community to help each other.

... over allowing the players to form a community to help each other?! This thread does not compute. Everything that the OP and others seem to be calling out as problematic seem like overwhelming positives to me.

[Xatsh]

This is nothing new, this happens in every single MMORPG, no matter what you do, there will always be clicks.

You are right they exist in every game, but a good guild should be able to remove them. That would be the hallmark of a good guild. A guild should not be A group, B group, C group. OR Raid Group and rest of people who are not good enough. A guild with its officers decked out in BIS gear or a world first means honestly nothing in terms of overall guild progression and skill... it is how good the guild is as a whole.

XIV is forcing this bad mentality on people, which needs to stop. It shouldn't have to be a choice between good progression or guild involvement. It MUST BE BOTH... not even a should it must be for guilds to exist and thrive. I should be able to incorporate all 45 people in my guild into an event in some way. Not force 8man statics which butcher scheduling if 1 person has a RL commitment that day.