Forcing people to group like this is just strange to me. Grouping takes tons of time in this game IMO where you can solo casually.
I see where your thought process is going and I understand trying to make the game more social but honestly the downfall for games like wow not being social enough for me is because their idea of class balance is to make everyone the same and giving everyone items/tools to make things quicker (mounts, innkeepers etc) .
The social aspects from EQ come from classes with clearly defined roles and others that can fill in multiple roles without specializing in one area. This is what facilities grouping and cooperation where as penalizing people for not doing so is just bad design from my point of view. This is like a just add friends label on the box because that's the only way you are getting anything done.
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