Why should I be excited for Grind Parties?

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So, I will skip the pointless bickering in the post and move onto the actual information you provided.

Group content that gives everyone something to do and is not repetitive/dull/etc.
And then you use WoW as an example. I played WoW for all of 6 months (not a fair amount of time in some peoples eyes.) But in all that time I ran into...maybe 5 group quests during my repetitive/dull quest grind in pursuit of level 85. 1-85...and I only had to interact with other people 5 times IF I could even get them to interact with me.

Grinding quests, group content or solo, can be just as dull and repetitive as a grind party. Mainly because the developers seem to think that "Go out an kill 10 of these" is a fun quest, especially if they just rename the mobs and increase the "difficulty" as you gain levels. Most of the group questing I ran into on WoW were those mini-arena battles where you defeat a few tougher than normal foes and you get gear at the end. All of those followed the same outline, just different dialog and different mobs.

And in the time I was partied with those few people for that...20-30 minutes...I made no friends, everyone got what they wanted and off they went.

So I ask you kindly: What kind of group content would actually be engaging and fun and not a grind? Because if you do quest after quest after quest...that's just a different form of grinding. It's no more engaging or fulfilling than grinding mobs for exp...because really the only difference is that there's a quest NPC to start and finish it with. You're still killing mobs. lol

Don't bother mentioning Raids. It's fairly obvious FFXIV is going the raid rout.

Thats actually impossible to be true, for there are group quest at each starting zone, from lvl 1-10 there are at minimum 3 group quest, not to mention lvl 10 to Cap! If you played 6 month's from everybody's perspective on this forums you should have been what lvl 60-70-80(Whatever the cap was when you played) by a month or Two. Do you know how many dungeons there are in azeroth ? More than 15 and those are divided from 1-60, there are multiple group quest for each dungeon, and each zone has a storyline that is developed by quest's etc etc. Sure there are lots and lots of quests that are just fetch and kill, but there are lots of quests that are not too.