Positive New Trends

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02-28-2015, 02:42 AM
dayspring83

Positive New Trends

What're some (new ish) things you've been seeing in Eorzea lately?

For me I've been seeing a lot of tanks with Pacification macros to let us healers know when to be ready with Esuna/leeches. Might not be new to some but I've only been seeing this over the past two weeks.

Thank you, Tanks!

Also been seeing more communication in parties with multiple Bards as well. Before pulls I've seen more folks discuss who will sing what and when.
02-28-2015, 02:46 AM
Amenian

I've been seeing more and more Elezen. My server is so overrun with miqotes that what to me at launch was a rather cutesy race (although not sexy! They look 16!!) now actually annoys me when I see them. Finally it looks like we're starting to get some racial diversity going on.
02-28-2015, 02:54 AM
Aurora-Pendragon

Hmmm, I see more lalas with a spriggan hat, and that's great !
02-28-2015, 02:57 AM
Shougun

The casino holds all of the player ran casinos.

The game lags every now and then because too many people want to play. (Could also be a negative, I'm not doing anything important right now so it is a positive - give me a sec and I'll complain :P)
02-28-2015, 03:35 AM
Arkenne

People are saying "hi" when in dungeons more often too (even in CT), sometimes more than that and not always something negative.
02-28-2015, 03:38 AM
OneWordASCIILettersOnly

I just saved a lot of money on my chocobo insurance.
02-28-2015, 04:23 AM
sciondar

I've noticed that with the majority of people hanging out at GS I can join hunt parties again and the times that I have, everyone seemed to be very cooperative with each other.
03-01-2015, 06:14 PM
Zentsa

Since Patch more Summoners, too much Bards and since world of darkness people are terrible bad in crystal tower 1 and 2.

Oh POSITIVE new Trends xDDDDDD
i think that even more people know how wod is going.
03-01-2015, 06:19 PM
ZhycranaDranix

Instant Ques, Instant ques , they're every where

*tear
03-01-2015, 06:39 PM
Chiramu

Quote:

Originally Posted by dayspring83

For me I've been seeing a lot of tanks with Pacification macros to let us healers know when to be ready with Esuna/leeches.

You should pay more attention to the party list being a healer :p. As for positive new trends? I don't know of any :/.
03-01-2015, 06:48 PM
Ilenya

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiramu

You should pay more attention to the party list being a healer :p. As for positive new trends? I don't know of any :/.

As a healer and not someone who uses Warrior all that much, I don't actually *know* the icon for Berserk off the top of my head, and by the time I notice the Pacification icon, it's usually too late anyways, especially if you were casting something else when Berserk went down.
03-01-2015, 07:09 PM
Chiramu

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ilenya

As a healer and not someone who uses Warrior all that much, I don't actually *know* the icon for Berserk off the top of my head, and by the time I notice the Pacification icon, it's usually too late anyways, especially if you were casting something else when Berserk went down.

As a healer you look at the party list all the time. I do not play warrior and I am terrible at warrior but I esuna asap.
03-01-2015, 07:58 PM
Interstella

Something positive...

Triple Triad has encouraged people into other zones a bit more, which is nice
03-01-2015, 08:01 PM
Ilenya

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiramu

As a healer you look at the party list all the time. I do not play warrior and I am terrible at warrior but I esuna asap.

Yes, I use my 1 second cast time Leech to knock off the 1 second left on the timer Pacification.

Constantly.

Because I'm usually mid-cast for something else when I notice the 5-second Pacification debuff pop up.
03-01-2015, 09:45 PM
Rhais

It's not really necessary for the healer to remove the pacification effect anyway. It is so brief that it really doesn't cause any problems unless you use berserk at bad times. By the time the debuff hits I've got threat locked on me and I'm not going to lose it in those 5 seconds, and if you are in a fight with a mechanic coming up that you need full use of your abilities to handle, you just need to plan the use of berserk around that.
03-02-2015, 06:03 AM
Aivi_lo

More pfs are appearing which are pony & card farms where you cycle through the fights rather than just Farming one :)
03-02-2015, 07:55 AM
Canadane

Quote:

Originally Posted by dayspring83

For me I've been seeing a lot of tanks with Pacification macros to let us healers know when to be ready with Esuna/leeches. Might not be new to some but I've only been seeing this over the past two weeks.

Tanks like these are the reason I have to actually go out of my way to tell healers not to Esuna me after Berserk. I need my TP back. D:
03-02-2015, 08:09 AM
Talia_Hailwind

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Chi...6d_1335368.jpg
03-02-2015, 08:15 AM
Talia_Hailwind

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amenian

I've been seeing more and more Elezen. My server is so overrun with miqotes that what to me at launch was a rather cutesy race (although not sexy! They look 16!!) now actually annoys me when I see them. Finally it looks like we're starting to get some racial diversity going on.

THIS MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...7662727706.jpg
03-02-2015, 09:37 AM
myahele

I've seen more SMNs in dungeons/trials after the patch. Before I rarely saw one, now it improved.
03-02-2015, 10:07 AM
Avenger

As of patch 2.51, hunts aren't as oversubscribed so they're becoming fun again!

More use of, and more intelligent use of, Party Finder! Party Finder is great! I'd like to see it become an actual competitor to Duty Finder!

I actually met some people in DF who didn't try to make me skip cutscenes or lock me out of battles when I was doing a dungeon for the first time!

People seem to be having a lot of fun with the gold saucer, and everyone is playing cards everywhere!

Lots of new players who aren't spambots!

Lots of people showing their fashion sense (or lack thereof!)

More semi-spontaneous silly events like dance parties, mount trains, large Moogle minion circles or fat chocobo vs. magitek armor battles!

I can't verify this for sure, but I think character names might be getting more creative on our server - recently I've seen some good rp-esque ones as well as some clever/funny ones, and many new players seem to have put some thought into their character names.

I've recently seen people actually offering help and assistance in response to a request for same.

Fewer "selling ex primals" shouts - who wants a sold-out ex-primal anyway? :)
03-04-2015, 03:19 AM
dayspring83

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiramu

You should pay more attention to the party list being a healer :p. As for positive new trends? I don't know of any :/.

I'm more referring to the macros that say something like "Pacification in four seconds". That way I know not to start casting something else and I can have leeches already started by the time Pacification hits. I always remove that debuff when I see it but if I don't know it's coming I might be start casting something that has a long cast time. By the time that's done and I'm throwing up leeches it might already have worn off.
03-04-2015, 03:32 AM
Hyunckel

Quote:

Originally Posted by dayspring83

I'm more referring to the macros that say something like "Pacification in four seconds". That way I know not to start casting something else and I can have leeches already started by the time Pacification hits. I always remove that debuff when I see it but if I don't know it's coming I might be start casting something that has a long cast time. .

1/ idc if healers dispell the incapacitate, some healers are just plain bad at dispelling anything, moving, or dpsing instead of afking when there is nothing to heal, so I never rely on them anyway
2/ In the case you're a decent healer and want to dispell it anyway, can't you just quickly sidestep to cancel your cast and then use your Esuna/Leeches? I only playing magic classes to like Lv.15 but I know you can just sidestep in 0.5sec and still be able to throw an instant spell or start casting right away, cancelling a cast doesn't trigger the 2.5sec GCD
03-04-2015, 04:15 AM
dayspring83

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hyunckel

1/ idc if healers dispell the incapacitate, some healers are just plain bad at dispelling anything, moving, or dpsing instead of afking when there is nothing to heal, so I never rely on them anyway
2/ In the case you're a decent healer and want to dispell it anyway, can't you just quickly sidestep to cancel your cast and then use your Esuna/Leeches? I only playing magic classes to like Lv.15 but I know you can just sidestep in 0.5sec and still be able to throw an instant spell or start casting right away, cancelling a cast doesn't trigger the 2.5sec GCD

Avoiding the obvious troll bait...
03-04-2015, 04:56 AM
Hyunckel

Quote:

Originally Posted by dayspring83

Avoiding the obvious troll bait...

What troll bait?

EDIT: Actually I don't care anyway.
03-04-2015, 06:01 AM
Fenral

Quote:

Originally Posted by Canadane

Tanks like these are the reason I have to actually go out of my way to tell healers not to Esuna me after Berserk. I need my TP back. D:

Are you also the Warrior who keeps Storm's Eye up so the Ninjas can kill faster? And keeps Storm's Path up to make things easier for the healers?

It's sad, but the really good Warriors are still rare enough that I like to stop and thank them during a run. So if that's you, thank you.
03-06-2015, 08:03 PM
Ilenya

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Originally Posted by Fenral

Are you also the Warrior who keeps Storm's Eye up so the Ninjas can kill faster? And keeps Storm's Path up to make things easier for the healers?

It's sad, but the really good Warriors are still rare enough that I like to stop and thank them during a run. So if that's you, thank you.

Okay, I'm not a warrior main, but...

Why *wouldn't* Warriors do this? The few times I do play Warrior I cycle BB combo-Storm's Path combo-BB combo-Storm's Eye combo once I am sure I have hate. Is that really that uncommon?
03-06-2015, 09:34 PM
Ultear_Milkovich

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Originally Posted by Avenger

very enjoyable stuff

This (minion / mounts events and other stufg plus people being nice) sounds awesome but sadly these trends seem missing on my Server :( really need to transfer when ill get rid of the infamous error 601...
03-06-2015, 09:40 PM
Clarkamite

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiramu

As a healer you look at the party list all the time. I do not play warrior and I am terrible at warrior but I esuna asap.

There are times in serious-ish content where if I don't want to get esuna'd right away. If I'm off-tanking and trying to put out the sick deeps I'll start dipping low into my TP and that five second break really helps sometimes. It's only at those times though that I see healers on top of that and Esuna me right away. Where are they at when I'm MT'ing???

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

Okay, I'm not a warrior main, but...

Why *wouldn't* Warriors do this? The few times I do play Warrior I cycle BB combo-Storm's Path combo-BB combo-Storm's Eye combo once I am sure I have hate. Is that really that uncommon?

I know of a Tank (and I won't say who) who to this day I have no clue what he does. Never seen Storm's Path up. Rarely see Storm's Eye up except for big moments and I know he's not spamming Butcher's Block since he would be pulling hate. Rarely even ever saw Maim up and thinks his only worthwhile CD's are Inner Beast and Vengeance. So he's not using his attacks, not putting up CD's and not really doing much of anything. Still not sure what he actually does.

ON TOPIC: I'm seeing a lot more people in the 24 man raids playing their jobs really well. Playing songs as a Bard and Ninja's goading people. Makes my heart all warm and fuzzy.