Fate Party?

I have been reading a few comments and am a bit confused about Fate Parties. I am enjoying exploring and running across Fate's and participating with any other adventure's around. Go in...tackle the baddies and move on. Are there some Fate's that require a Party to be formed to participate or am i missing something.

Reason I ask is I just assumed for the lightning Fate i could just go to the Fate location and fight with the rest of the players in the area.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

You get points for participating in Fates based on how much you and your party does, so people group up for fates to make getting gold rewards easier. If you don't have problems getting credit, no fate requires you to be in a group.