Quote Originally Posted by Cutie_McSnuggles View Post
Not to be rude, but to me this still sounds like a FATE party. It seems like you are looking for certain types of players rather then certain types of activities.

To clarify, I never got to play XI so I'm genuinely interested in what it is that makes EXP parties something different then what we have in the game. So far the only real difference I've seen anyone use is "People talked more". (I can't say this without sounding offensive, sorry about that.) It kinda makes FFXI sound like a really fancy chat room with a combat mini game for when people run out of things to say.
To give an example of how it would work in XIV: The regular open world mobs would be similar strength to lets say trash in coil. To kill them you would need to form a balanced party that would stand still in certain places in the area (camps) near to a spot where a group of these mobs would be. Somebody in the party (usually with a ranged ability) would run and "pull" one of these mobs back to the party for them to kill and the puller would then drop off to pull the next mob before the previous one dies in order to speed up the process and create exp chains.

The main difference was that you all had to pay attention and play your class properly, otherwise it could end up in a wipe.

(Ahhh how I do miss the dangerous open world.)