Thanks for the new Blood Pacts.
Hastega II, Soothing Current, and Crystalline Blessing should make for good additions to our set of skills. I can't say whether or not the others will be useful until we see what they can do via testing. I hope that the damaging pacts have skillchain properties.
There's one thing that bugs me, and I knew it was going to happen with these pacts after seeing what happened with the ward/rage pacts that were introduced between 75 and 99. No new avatar animations are ever created. Sure, the effects look different, but the physical avatar model has never been updated for any pacts after 75. Are the devs just being lazy? Is it really that big of a deal to update the models? Did they guy that knew how to animate the models quit? It's frustrating and stupid because if they're never going to update the avatar models, then we're never going to have a 4 strike attack with ifrit, or a 3 strike attack with shiva, or a non-roar buff with ifrit. It really kills a lot of potential variety.
Like I said, I don't know why the devs have never updated the models, but at this point, it looks really really lazy, and it makes it seem like there will never be any truly new blood pacts.
Btw, kudos to whoever did Diabolos's Nether Blast animation, I love all the variety in that one: the gathering energy, the tension before the toss, and the flip afterwards.