Minor Thing

As far as mechanics, Sozen's right.

Yes but this isn't a question mechanics, it's about the Shadow Realm.

Like i said, unless you're working on one of the storyline recap pages, mechanics are everything and location according to the story is nothing. Things like whether or not the npcs say you're going to the shadow realm and weather or not the sky is red are irrelevant. They function the same way, so for all intents and purposes other than story recaps, they're the same thing.

Well if we're going purely on Mechanics, Shadow Mission isn't as accurate of a term as Party Quest.

In what way? Neither the ingame term nor a literal interpretation of "Party Quest" apply here.

The literal term applies. Also, please don't use the reply feature in this post just because you can, normally use the "Add a reply" text, only use the "< Reply" button if you need to reply to that specific post and not just add to a conversation.

The literal term does not apply because they can be soloed.

So? They use the same mechanics as a Party Quest. If we're going by the name interpretation, that reinforces my statement that they are not Shadow Missions because they are not in the Shadow Realm. Story takes priority, and mechanics does not disprove my point.

What mechanics do they have in common with a party quest? Which point are you referring to? The only time story takes priority is when you're discussing story exclusively.

Get a shadow mission other than their method and look at the party window.

Ah, completely forgot about that. Well, I still don't see how that's supposed to prove our point, but we should probably make a note of this on the pages.