Message from actual new player

[Denmo]

There's a large elephant in the room that people seem to be ignoring. It's not necessarily the difficulty that's the problem here.

It's the ability to form parties.

Why are we soloing even though the mobs are more difficult, and we get more exp in a party? Because getting a party together outside a linkshell is a righteous pain in the ass. Shouting, shouting, and more shouting. And since shouting can only be heard in one specific area, there's no guarantee that you'll reach the people that would actually want to party with you. For all you know they're probably out soloing. I mean who'd want to wait in Ul'dah for someone else to start shouting?

And NOBODY checks the party search feature. And even if they did, they'd have to be very specific in their searching or a result won't show. That coupled with no global searching and no party invite flags leave many of us without a linkshell or high level job stranded. Just try to form a level 15 party for Shposhae. Go on, try it.