why isnt there a way to easily chat wth party members?

[Felis]

The reason for this is because combat is so fast paced, there simply isn't time to spend chatting about random stuff - unlike FFXI where combat was so slow you could easily get away with chatting while fighting. It's the price that had to be paid for having more faster combat (which players actually requested in 1.0 by the way - players wanted flashy, fast-paced battles like were shown in the original opening movie).

You can still talk before a fight (to prevent a wipe) and after a fight (if the party wiped).
But nowdays many people just leave a party and join another party instead to talk about strategie to prevent wipes..

[Legend_]

You can still talk before a fight (to prevent a wipe) and after a fight (if the party wiped).
But nowdays many people just leave a party and join another party instead to talk about strategie to prevent wipes..

This is pretty much what I do as soon as I log in. Also it keeps me(or my clumsy nephew) from spewing robot sayings in another channel because if Im by my self it will just return the "no party members" error.

I had many, many people ask me how to return tells in the beginning(Im sure most just ask their FC now) or how did I reply to a tell to them so fast, even got called their hero. I think the new tutorial quest is a great idea and shouldn't take that much of their resources where they have to push back an expansion or something.

OP statements is kinda funny, it appears he is saying people would use it if they knew how when more then likely those folks just dont want to talk(at all) to him period

I actually wish I was new again to MMO's actually that feeling I will never have again.