Friends

The friend system shipped in protocol v23. Friendship needs consent from both sides, and it is tracked per character, not per account — log in on another character on the same account and the friend list is empty.

Adding a friend

Type in chat:

/friend add <name>

/f add <name> is the short form; either works.

• The other player gets a request toast and has 120 seconds to accept or decline; an unanswered request just expires.
• If both sides send a request to each other before either expires, you become friends immediately — no one has to click accept.
• Each player can have up to 5 pending requests at once; past that, new ones are refused until an old one expires or gets answered.
• A declined request stays around until its TTL runs out instead of disappearing immediately, so declining can’t be used to free up a slot for spam.

The friend panel

Press F, or click the friend icon on the HUD. Each friend’s name shows their class icon (the same set the party panel uses, falling back to a letter badge if there’s no matching icon), and next to it you can:

• Whisper them directly — this prefills /w <name> in the chat input (it does not send automatically, so you can edit it first).
• Invite them to your party — routes through the normal party-invite flow, so failures are reported by the server the same way.

The panel also has a + Add button — click it, type a name, and it sends the same request as typing /friend add <name>, without switching to chat.

How online status is determined

Friend presence is not pushed by the server — the panel polls for it: every 15 seconds while the panel is open, dropping to every 60 seconds while it is closed. The “X came online” notice is derived by diffing consecutive answers, so it only exists client-side; the server has no concept of it.

Removing a friend

/friend remove <name>

/friend delete also works. Removal is one-sided and takes effect for both of you immediately — no consent needed, both lists update at once, and neither of you has to relog to see it.

Friendship and blocking are mutually exclusive

You can’t be someone’s friend and have them blocked at the same time:

• Blocking a friend ends the friendship immediately.
• Sending a friend request to someone you’ve blocked is refused — and the refusal message is word-for-word identical to “request sent, waiting for a reply,” so the other person can’t tell they’ve been blocked.

Listing your friends

Type /friend with no arguments, or just /f, to list your current friends.