Greetings from Melmond!

[Seiken]

Hello DyskoFox~

Do people make parties other than for exp/spiritbonding?

Yes. There are Ifrit pick-up shout parties forming all the time, at least 2-3 every night. As for moogle, it's a little rarer but I still see one every couple days. I don't see many parties shouting for farming stronghold NMs or open world NMs though.

How would I rate the worlds personality? Search function etc

Hard to say since I don't know everyone, but I would say that most players are 18+ and a lot of former XI players. So the community is very mature. There are of course those troll characters that are probably on every server...Everyone seems excited for 1.21 and the merger, they are just kinda depressed how long it's taking SE to follow through. I think every LS suffers from inactivity this far into 1.20. I know our LS numbers are down from 12 to 8 on every night. This has somewhat forced a lot of players from different linkshells to join pickups together. I rarely ever see people use the search function. Maybe 10/200 have the search feature up. Shouting in uldah is still the way to go. English player base is fairly large around peak times, 200+ with 2-3 Ifrit/exp/spiritbonding shouts.

Content end game LSs:

Dancing Mad
Dynasty
Neutral Impact
Omen (International, but do endgame with NA)
The Returners
Phoenix Order (mix of social/endgame)
Phenomenon (not too sure about this LS)
Ass Kickers Anonymous (more social than endgame driven)

Sorry if I left your LS off~

I think pretty much every LS is "recruiting" for the merger, just to hopefully pick up the best players from Melmond since the merger is a great opportunity.


Seiken Valk
Dancing Mad
Aegis

[DyskoFox]

Hello DyskoFox~

Do people make parties other than for exp/spiritbonding?

Yes. There are Ifrit pick-up shout parties forming all the time, at least 2-3 every night. As for moogle, it's a little rarer but I still see one every couple days. I don't see many parties shouting for farming stronghold NMs or open world NMs though.

How would I rate the worlds personality? Search function etc

Hard to say since I don't know everyone, but I would say that most players are 18+ and a lot of former XI players. So the community is very mature. There are of course those troll characters that are probably on every server...Everyone seems excited for 1.21 and the merger, they are just kinda depressed how long it's taking SE to follow through. I think every LS suffers from inactivity this far into 1.20. I know our LS numbers are down from 12 to 8 on every night. This has somewhat forced a lot of players from different linkshells to join pickups together. I rarely ever see people use the search function. Maybe 10/200 have the search feature up. Shouting in uldah is still the way to go. English player base is fairly large around peak times, 200+ with 2-3 Ifrit/exp/spiritbonding shouts.

Content end game LSs:

Dancing Mad
Dynasty
Neutral Impact
The Returners
Phoenix Order (mix of social/endgame)
Phenomenon (not too sure about this LS)
Ass Kickers Anonymous (more social than endgame driven)

Sorry if I left your LS off~

I think pretty much every LS is "recruiting" for the merger, just to hopefully pick up the best players from Melmond since the merger is a great opportunity.


Seiken Valk
Dancing Mad
Aegis

Thanks a bunch for the information. I hope I didn't seem rude or anything I am just curious is all to get to know a bit more about Figaro. =D If there is anything you would like to know about Melmond feel free to ask me. I would like to think I know most of my community and am an experienced player. So, if there's any questions I can ask shoot. =D