Alastor i can honestly say in 4+ years playing XI i never had any problem whats so ever finding a party i always made my exp partys and that is no jack ass bs lie, sorry

The search and party systems worked very well and if you were'nt looking for the "traditional set up" tank ddx2 blm rdm whm, which most were'nt the game allowed alot of variety tp burn parties mp burn ect ect you should have never sat for hours.
Unless you were the type to just put seek flag up and afk, if you were active and gave a little bit of effort getting/finding/making a exp party was extremely easy, I'm sorry.