That is your choice, but to claim the system does not work is false though.

As I said it is the NA population making it not work... not the design of it. People are selectivly choosing to refuse to use it.. then complaining it is not working.

The issue with only doing things in a linkshell is what happens when you are online in a time the linkshell is not. The game is horrible solo.... unless you just like solo grinding. There are countless people who quit due to lack of partying... around 30 of the people who quit my linkshell that was the primary cause... 10 of my people from my shell on XI went back to Paradox on XI for that simple reason. It is a massive game breaking problem square cannot solve for many many people, yea alot of SE's primary mmo fan base likes party based leveling... hard for some people to believe I know.

And until the community stops the "We are making a statement" and just starts to use the tools given to us in the game in this respect the game will continue to degrade. There is a reason the party search is way way back on the back burner... because the one we have simply works fine.