Quote:Maybe it's my experience as an HC player, but I've always found it beneficial to party for the big quests, as well as alot of the levelling. Having backup to bail you out if you get in hot water, or at worst, to loot your corpse when you die, is pretty strong incentive to work with people (friends and people i trust). Thats the distinction I make - I don't like being forced to party with joe leecher and joe item-grabber in order to get ANYWHERE in the game. I think partying should be encouraged, but never 100% forced.I think that partying should be encouraged by nothing but the necessity to do it. As you say, partying with a couple of friends was a good idea in HC for the reasons you mentioned.
Right now, people party "just for the hell of it", it doesn't matter either way if the party isn't beneficial, efficient, or necessary. But in D2C, people only partied when they had a good reason to, there were no incentives or benefits other than what you and your team could create yourselves. That's what I want back - having actual reasons to party, and not to party, not a climate where partying is such a no-brainer that nobody cares about it.
In my mind, my dreams are real. No one's concerned about the way I feel.