Positive New Trends

[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?

[dayspring83]

You should pay more attention to the party list being a healer . 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.

[Hyunckel]

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

[dayspring83]

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...

[Hyunckel]

Avoiding the obvious troll bait...

What troll bait?

EDIT: Actually I don't care anyway.

[Fenral]

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.

[Ilenya]

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?

[Ultear_Milkovich]

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...

[Clarkamite]

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???

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.