Remember fate parties? Like pre-heavensward fate parties all posted up in party finder? Sometimes we'd have like 4-6 full parties running fates from Aleport, then graduating to Quarrymill, to Costa, to CCH and finally Northern Thanalan. Those times were seriously a blast. <3

Anyone else from those days(or any new players find that appealing) feel like it would be awesome if the dev team helped us make fate parties a major relevant thing again? I long to open pf and find dozens of people running fates from area to area again. These gems and relic things just aren't doing it. People still do it alone, nobody cares about fate parties because it's been kinda pushed on us by making this method much less efficient as spamming dungeons.

The dev team seem to be trying to maintain the integrity of the game by forcing us all into dungeons to lower queue times because they can't figure out a balance, it seems like that anyways.

For me personally, I do love running dungeons time to time but over and over for levelling becomes mundane and it's not the same as hanging out with the same peeps for 4-5 hours in the same parties one day and then seeing them again the next day, just making in-game friendships from all different FC's.

My first year playing on Lamia I made so many friends. Now I've been on Marlboro since just after Heavensward released and I barely know a third of the same amount of people, I feel like the loss of fate party relevance is a major factor. I stuck it out here thinking it would get better. It hasn't. I'm in a big FC but still. It's not the same.

Tell me I'm not alone in this.