PvP

The fact that I ended up PvPing with at least 3 or 4 different buddies in my list says otherwise. Though, those chances were probably very low.

Weird, my friend was in a FFA match at night (where there were only around 8-10 people doing FFA, and I'd see the same people each time) in the gold richie map, and selecting FFA continuously put me alone in the cygnus and pink bean maps randomly (tried this around 20 times). I got into the gold richie map right after deleting him off my list, and the match wasn't near 10 people so space in the match wasn't the issue. He's also in my guild. Maybe it was just coincidence.

Also, if anyone's wondering, the att buff gives +200 battle mode att (100 for team), the def buff gives +6000 regular weapon/magic def (2000 for team), and the speed buff gives +20 regular speed.