Well see thats the thing too, in RO you dont have to solo either, but alot of people do prefer to solo at least on every server i played in. Of course the ridgidness of the party system i heard is not as defined as it is in FFXI since my friend says that his tank can lose hate sometimes and it wont be THAT huge a problem as it can be in FFXI where your mage starts nuking like a machine gun and getting himself killed in 3-4 hits. I only said that extreme because of what i know about it(prove me wrong :P).

However i know instances and other things like that require partying. FFXI doesnt need a full 6 man party too, its just most people prefer to kill monsters way above their level that is better if you have 6. A party of 3 can probably kill some Toughs or low tier Very Toughs for decent exp as well especially with the new NPCs these days. Just most prefer the 6 man party which i have to say its more of a community thing...and yes that sucks xD

I find ballista to be kinda casual too at times. I dunno, maybe its because i can participate in 30-60 cap ballista. But thats me O_o; I like farming a few here and there while crafting casually too. I enjoy helping other people even more though although some help requires planning. I dont like to plan at times too, but i do prefer that some of the tougher things required to plan and excel at. Mind numbing at times yes, but not that horrible if you got brains to plan it out i feel.

My friend and I work wonderfully well with myself as a Rogue and him as a Priest, no tank class in there, just damage and healing, but it works out great.
I guess we are on different extremes here or sides if extremes is too much. I like the ridgidness, like you are good at tanking, omecle will tank for me because he is best at holding hate, therefore my blm friend can do more excellent damage and not worry as much about hate, but because omecle as a PLD does take a few more hits a WHM such as me would be best to take the duty of healing him, and add in the other classes which excel at different areas, feels like a real good team...not just any class thrown together works well. I mean obviously for different things this does not apply(the class differences), but strictly exp situations here. I like that..but obviously i know it does create some unhappiness when your friend chooses a class that a party cannot have 2 of(like 2 WHMs outside of valkurm..weak). But know what i mean..? I felt so..blah as Acrolyite in RO because you can use potions so easily to make me feel..weak D: outside of their PvP known as "Guild Wars".

And on that note, how is RO compared to ROSE..? Is ROSE just an updated RO game..?

and yes AZN R L33T!!!1111one!..*trips* x_x