Note: I find myself wanting to express my opinions on several topics and I think this is the place to be. My opinions are personal thoughts (and are not a critique), which I am not claiming to be right nor wrong. I am not expecting comments, otherwise I would have went to the official forum. In the event that there would be, I honor and respect everybody else’s opinion, though I’d prefer a healthy conversation over that of a heated debate.
Some Current Opinion(s):
Some FFXIV players believe that improvements are needed for the Trust System and that the rewards for playing or complete leveling trust companions up are not worth it.
Rasler’s Opinion:
I believe that the Trust System has lots of way to go before it becomes optimal.
The system was implemented to allow players, specifically DPS, be able to do dungeons without waiting too long in queues. The problem is the time that one would have spent waiting in a queue simply translated to how long you would be playing a dungeon because the trust companions will not do big pulls. Sometimes I would deliberately pull enemies so the tank can have a big pull. Unfortunately, the trust companions would not do AOE attacks too so it just became pointless.
I am aware that the leveling experience gained by the trust companions has already been improved. However, it still takes a long time though. I was only able to level them all up because I was also leveling up alternate jobs at the same time. Otherwise, I would not have bothered. Simply getting a title for getting all of the trust companions to 80 is just underwhelming. Allowing to change their gear doesn’t also amount to anything. A mount would have been nice but that would still felt lacking after all the time you spent there.
For other improvements, maybe a trust system for trials. It may be a long shot, though there is already precedent for this in Memoria Misera (normal).
