Party Finder should be accessible in Occult Crescent (and all other Field Operations)

So yeah, what title says. It's very ridicolous that this is in fact open world content with different approaches in gameplay, for example in Crescent - some people gathers in chain gold farms, second group doing fates and, third group gathering for Blood Tower
And only way to commune and party is just write "lfg this" "lfg that" is ridicolous.
And there's no way to tell if player is already in party or not until you invite him.

Save people time and nerves
You know this feature should be accessible in this type of content

My experience is this:

If someone wants to party up for a particular grind, they announce it in /shout and then people offer to help and get invited on a first-response basis.

If someone asks for a party at a CE in /shout, click their name and invite very quick, otherwise it's too late. If it's too late, it'll tell you, so it's ok.

As the party leader, I recommend not inviting more than what would fill you to 8 players, otherwise you'll cause an invited player to be unable to join and also it blocks others from inviting them. It's extremely inconsiderate to do that to them. Only experienced this once in NA, probably because newer players aren't used to that as an issue from not having a field op in EW.

You can press O to see all the players in the zone and it will show who is in a party and who is not. So you could just invite them that way. It also let's you filter by who is looking for a party, which you could enable with /lookingforparty, but I doubt anyone actually uses that.

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Originally Posted by Shamshouka

And there's no way to tell if player is already in party or not until you invite him.

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When you're running around, anyone you see with a yellow "[>]" icon by their name is not yet in a party. At a CE, sometimes I just right-click on those people and invite them to my party.

It is ridiculous but so is the fact that you can't queue for Forked in a seperate duty and use the party finder to organize. You're again stuck with 'LFG' trying to rally an entire instance to do a savage raid.

The whole design is insane and took several steps backwards.