If your ability to find parties or groups is so bad you need your fellow more than 12 times a week you should consider a server change or petitioning for different work hours. Again, I'm all for some fellow updates, I love my fellow and how useful they can be, but I can't say I'd ever been unable to progress in game because of the recast timer on the signal pearl. Also, have you read the updates coming for fellows? They're going to stay out significantly longer and for lots more kills.

As much as the game has fallen into the grind of forced soloing lately I personally hate the idea of further increasing the ease of players to not group. The community aspect of the game has already taken a severe hit over the years and I could only see making soloing easier as a bad thing in the long run.

You've got some nice ideas. I would love to see a new fellow, especially if they fully incorporated it in with a new story line. I just can't see the need for a shorter recast on the pearl.