A seriously long overdue and underdiscussed point from the live letter -


It will be possible to being gathering when the duty party participation window appears.
Sword and shield rewards will be obtained at the same time.
It will be possible to queue for Duty Roulette as a party for the following roulettes:
Duty Roulette: Expert
Duty Roulette: Level 60 Dungeons
Duty Roulette: Level 50 Dungeons
Duty Roulette: Leveling
Duty Roulette: Trials
Duty Roulette: Main Scenario
Duty Roulette: Guildhest
I don't have any jobs to level anymore, but now if my friends need help, I'll be able to grab them and say "Yea, let's hit leveling/trial/guildhests together!" A big thing's gonna be that my girlfriend and I don't have to try and fishhook for Trail que's anymore, and can instead just be in a party together for it.

I know there's a huge proponent that is anti this, And I'm sure I'll get some negative bile about how this is an MMO and I "shouldnt' be afraid to play this with others", but I'm just gonna take a moment to say - this is an MMO, I should have the option to play with the people closest to me while playing with others.

I think we'll see a lot more tanks/healers doing low level ques with their friends now and this will help a lot of people out.