Party size reduction a good change?

[Arkine]

Fighting stuff like Great buffalo will take twice as long to kill with just 8 people, other than that, I'm not bothered by this.

[Vackashken]

That said, I hope they allow for alliances. This will cause havoc on NM runs seeing as we always have more than 8 people wanting to go. Sure, they don't take 16 but its still nice to include everyone.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Fighting stuff like Great buffalo will take twice as long to kill with just 8 people, other than that, I'm not bothered by this.

In the outline there's nothing mentioned for an alliance, but one can't see in the future.
I suppose they'll just tweak their strength for a smaller party

[Shiyo]

Party size change is great! It means less zerging weak mobs and harder fights ^-^

[Kazimir]

It is good in certain situations, but for endgame content, and endgame LS's it's a very poor move.

[Shika]

It is good in certain situations, but for endgame content, and endgame LS's it's a very poor move.

That's only assuming that you cannot alliance, or have more than one party/alliance in endgame content areas working together. Who knows...
I'm glad of the party size reduction personally- less throwing numbers at mobs, and hopefully more strategy instead.

[Chardrizard]

very welcomed change.

[Arcell]

That said, I hope they allow for alliances. This will cause havoc on NM runs seeing as we always have more than 8 people wanting to go. Sure, they don't take 16 but its still nice to include everyone.

That's assuming they haven't balanced the content to work with 8 person parties, which I'm almost certain they did.

[Corrderio]

I never liked huge parties since the more people = the more of a likely chance someone will f*ck up.

[Alcide]

That said, I hope they allow for alliances. This will cause havoc on NM runs seeing as we always have more than 8 people wanting to go. Sure, they don't take 16 but its still nice to include everyone.

Uhm even if they leave the current NM as they are I don't think it would be a problem, most of them can be killed with 8 people and usually there's more than one NM up, so if you have 15 ppl online you can split into two parties and have two challenging fights instead on only one easy fight :P