On a similar note... Waking Sands/Rising Stones used to be 'public' places; as I did my quests there I could see other players there to hand in their quests, no matter how far ahead or behind they were. Then they changed that -- whether it was due to performance issues or whether it was to enhance the 'YOU are the hero' feeling I don't know. But it bugs me that I can see my party members' hp in the party list yet not see them in there.

I wish they'd at least allow party members to be on the same 'layer' of such places =/