Comments on: 6 Player Groups – The Perfect Size

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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:12:57 +0000

[...] problem of decreasing group size has been noted by We Fly Spitfires, and it is exacerbated by SWTOR’s even smaller than usual group [...]

By: browolf

browolf — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:44:33 +0000

I don’t know about EQ, but in ffxi 6 works because there’s a lot of intermediate job classes. Not healer not tank not pure dps. With 6 you’re quite likely to have tank + healer + 2dps + 2 intermediates. So a party may have 1.5 healers or 1.5 tanks which is obviously better suited to deal with unexpected situations than a party with only 1 healer or 1 tank.

Without the existence of intermediate specs there’s no reason for wow to have 6 member parties.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:02:21 +0000

Anyone here play Allods Online, it allows for 6-person parties as well. It’s pretty awesome for a F2P game (with a cash shop).

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It Happens In A Flashpoint « MMO Gamer Chick — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:14:28 +0000

[...] been perplexed by SWTOR’s group size ever since last year — especially in light of this post I saw on We Fly Spitfires last week, where Gordon points out that larger groups allow for more variety in party make-up. [...]

By: numtini

numtini — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:12:36 +0000

DAOC had 8 I believe.

Asheron’s Call I don’t remember having groups at all. If there were groups and a group size, it was just an artifice for talking. Everyone was self sufficient, generally with was the spell drain?, and you just zerged. Or solo’d.

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Best of the Week — 17-23 Jan ’11 — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:34:37 +0000

[...] 6-Player Groups — The Perfect Size on We Fly Spitfires. [...]

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:47:36 +0000

Hehe. I remember when Enchanters were the hottest thing going and how to do a LDON successfully you need a class that could CC enough to ensure single pulls. As a Warrior I was jealous of Paladins who could soothe undead Ah great times…

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:46:32 +0000

This has a given a good idea for a blog post, Bhagpuss! I’ll try to write up my thoughts on it soon Essentially it’s very interesting to how classes in fantasy based MMORPGs have changed and, ultimately, been simplified. No longer do specific classes bring anything unique or necessary to the table but rather just fit into a single category – either they’re a tank, healer or DPS. Now whether that’s for better or for worse is something worth exploring

By: Bhagpuss

Bhagpuss — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:16:11 +0000

That sounds right! In our guild we couldn’t even handle Plane of Nightmare safely when PoP launched. We all went back to Velious and spent a lot of time in Velks as I recall. Of course, most of us weren’t even 60th when PoP came out.

Later on we spent a lot of time in the Planes but we always had to have a slower even then. I was in a great cross-guild chat channel that had people from everything from very small family guilds to some of the top guilds on my server in it and we often had channel groups of very mismatched abilities and gear. When one of the big raid guild tanks dropped in to tank for us it was amazing how weak the mighty mobs suddenly seemed.

Anyway, better not take up all Gordon’s thread with reminiscences

By: Tesh

Tesh — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:10:39 +0000

Makes sense to me,and squares with my relatively paltry experience with GW grouping. When everyone has to mind their own house, as it were, you’re definitely going to see who has skills and who doesn’t.