Actually.. it has sent me to parties on the EU server before when I am US server. I wish the party finder would tell us what server the party is on. On top of that the ranked thing I find a lot of the parties it shows me are tier 1 parties and tier 2.. unless that is what Vanguards or people with 24.9k prestige are playing these days.

It does tell you what server the party is on. Or to be more specific, it tells you if the party is on the server you're NOT on. By which I mean, if you're on US, you'll see (Europe) beside the parties on the EU server.

However.. this may only show if you have a specific server set in the Options (mine's set to US). Maybe it doesn't show if you don't have one specified (pretty sure that's an option).

Also, I do recall one of the GM's saying they filter the party list by language.

But I must say, it does confuse me that there are so many parties supposedly the same (t3) mission rank as me that do t1 clockworks. =/ But it would make sense if Dorael has it right and it shows parties at your current mission rank as well as one rank below.

Something else puzzling, however, is that sometimes I've seen open arcade parties in the party finder but if I try to Join a party in that same arcade gate (instead of through the party finder) it says there aren't any open parties.

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Well how many Vanguards actually run the Arcade anyway? I assume most of us do the King of Ash mission, Prestige missions, or Shadow Lairs. Of the Vanguards who would like to run the Arcade for whatever reason, how many would actually want to do it in a public game? And finally, how many would start their own and presumably wait for it to fill up?

I'm assuming it's not so much showing us T1-T2 runs over T3 as there just aren't that many public T3 ones.

I do Arcade runs. Infact, I do a lot of tier 2 runs actually. 3* recipes sell for a lot, if you're lucky.

Oh Asuka

And yeah, there's probably some variant of Sod's Law that dictates you will never find a party with people who have the same rank, and you will never find a party for anything below t1. Either that or they're at Moorcroft.

It is strange just how many T1 runs show up in the list, even when you're a Vanguard rank. I can't imagine there are that many people out there who have completed all of the rank missions yet are still doing T1 runs, so maybe some wires are getting crossed somewhere. I don't mind the T2 runs showing up at all, since there are still some T2 boss rewards and 3-star boss recipes I want to track down. Plus, sometimes I want to relax a bit with T2 instead of having to stay on my toes in T3.

Now that you mention it, I did used to run T1 in order to get rid of the T2 entry fees, and there were certain gates that netted me a hefty profit. It is sort of fun to run through a level thwomping everything like Godzilla, too. :D