Hey, I've been trying to get into parties or form my own to actually do some events, and I and other leaders are finding it harder and harder to get enough people together to do high tier battlefields/skirmish/incursion/delve/etc. especialy when you consider how "strict" party roles are.

I just feel like it's hard to get anything done in terms of endgame events if it's gotten so hard to fill a party out for high tier battlefields or skirmish or even Adoulin missions, sometimes It's really, REALLY difficult to get that elusive Aegis/Ochain PLD or a COR or BRD so you have songs/rolls. I just feel like with the limited server pop being able to find good PLDs as well as a good buffer job, and some nights it's even hard to find that last DD sometimes.

I'm willing to admit it just might be my server. but even when I'm not taking charge as a WHM and forming my own group (which is what I usually have to do.), when I join someone else's shout, it just falls apart because we can't find one more person or we can't find x or y job we need to have a good party comp.

days like these makes me really miss the pre-SoA days where more people could tank besides Aegis/Ochain PLDs (remember how prolific NIN tanks were in Aby? or hell, WAR with /NIN tanks?) and that not having that BRD or COR didn't destroy your chances of getting anything done. back in Aby a lot of the time we had to roll without songs or rolls and we had to try our best to make due. (granted we had cruor buffs and Atma back then, but hell, for VW and those other non-Aby events pre-SoA that was a bigger deal.) But now it seems a lot of contents you NEED good rolls or songs, and/or you NEED a good GEO, and a good core of other mage support types for stunnign and all that, which I guess would make things more interesting if it wasn't so hard to even get such strict compositions together.

It's really cool SE is trying to fix these group coordinating problems with LS Concierges and the Unity thing, but the Unity thing is just going to be another big NM event you probably on't have the right party comp to actually do.

It's ahh, it's frustrating. even LS groups might be hard to pull off if your LSes don't have the right mix of jobs.