Quote Originally Posted by PharisHanasaki View Post
Your are sorta right, but at the same time, there used to be more parties up before. Now the game is kinda dead during the weekends.

I wonder if it's because they're waiting for the next patch, but I've never seen PF so empty since it was made data center wide.
So yes, for savage it's not a good idea to wait until the weekend, but for everything else it was fine.
While I'm pretty sure that pre-patch-lull plays a part in this, I'm also wondering if the growing popularity of Discord might be another one - while I'm personally not using it much outside of our FC-discord and personal chats, I know that there are quite a few big discord-servers dedicated to specific aspects of the game so I wouldnt be surprised if part of the matchmaking process happens there instead of PF - not even in the form of forming statics but just setting up a group for the next evening in advance instead of putting up a PF.

When it comes to Ex-primals and PF we also need to consider that woth the crafted ilvl450 gear and the Eden NM drops being 450 aswell gear-drops from Innocence and Titania are not excatly worthless but have at least strong rivals. Why put up a farm party for either when you can buy gear of the same ilvl from the marketboard or get your quick and easy Eden NM loot for the week? Not even to mention that you'll be using tomestone-gear (or Savage) for your main anyways, so even less reason to get a Titania-weapon or Innocence-earrings.