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(08-25-2014, 03:37 PM)Aldotsk Wrote:(08-25-2014, 03:07 PM)LiadansWhisper  Wrote: FCs are just a tag.^ I agree with you 100% that FCs in FFXIV mean nothing now. Most end games are done through Linkshells nowadays. Some FCs are just made only for friends to enjoy their own housing or social chats. There are "some" end game based FCs but that's like 10% of FCs in Balmung. Â
I don't think this is quite true, I do all my progression with my guild and my guild has a lot of different people in different progression phases. But they mostly run with each other with some outside people from three different FCs. We have: One group who can sometimes clear T8 with 4 FC members and 4 outsiders, One group who can clear T7 thats all FC/learning T8, one group who is learning T7 that's all FC, and one group who is on Twintania that's all FC. I think that some people find it much more comfortable to raid with your FC or people who know really really well. Getting into the raid game is WAYYYY easier if you already have an FC that does it and knows exactly where to put you.
The big problem with FC raiding is what someone mentioned above, it's clear that some people are going to learn the fight MUCH faster than others and at that point you have to decide whether staying with your team is worth it or moving on without them. It's really easy to get frustrated by not progressing and if it's important to you, you can push people in your FC to the breaking point with your frustrations and you kind of have to find whats right for you. We've had people leave the statics mentioned above to go work with other groups because they wanted to clear faster, which is fine, but we generally like to stick with raiding "inside the family" - which includes our FC and FCs we're comfortable with.
The raiding game is really hard to get into if you don't know the right people, FC or not though, that much is true.
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