(edited by shadow.6174)
Party chat vanishes when leaving party
It’s working as designed.
I think most everyone (ANet staff included) would prefer if chat remained regardless of dropping party. There’s no particular advantage to the player for its current behavior.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Yes, that’s exactly my thought.
It’s been discussed before. It’s also a problem with people who get kicked out of dungeons. They lose party chat and can’t report abuses unless they made a screenshot before joining up.
As a minor annoyance, when you switch chars you lose guild chat also even if both chars are in the same guild and both are repping.
Not much consolation to you, but remember…the chat isn’t lost to those investigating reports of abuse, etc.
Maybe, one day, it will be something included in a Feature Patch. Maybe…this one? =)