What does the community need?

[Joven]

Overall I think the community needs to come to terms with the fact that everyone player is different, and has their own desires for the game. I have seen so much fighting within the forums simply because ideas to do not line up and some take it as a personal attack. In short the community needs to relax.

I agree. I posted on a thread about Monk's One Ilm Punch where I stated that I thought it would be cool if it had knockback and maybe a stun like the move Bruce Lee did that it derives its name from. I've never had so many people so up in arms about a simple suggestion. It was rediculous. People seriously need to chill on here.

Also, people need to stop with the thread titles meant to rile others up (like a certain one about Character Creation having a race problem.) All it does is create friction and unnecessary drama.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I agree. I posted on a thread about Monk's One Ilm Punch where I stated that I thought it would be cool if it had knockback and maybe a stun like the move Bruce Lee did that it derives its name from. I've never had so many people so up in arms about a simple suggestion. It was rediculous. People seriously need to chill on here.

Also, people need to stop with the thread titles meant to rile others up (like a certain one about Character Creation having a race problem.) All it does is create friction and unnecessary drama.

Probably because abilities like that may be fun for the user, however they aren't fun for other players. It gets incredibly tedious having to drag a pack of mobs to pick up the one sent off to Narnia.

[Rockette]

Probably because abilities like that may be fun for the user, however they aren't fun for other players. It gets incredibly tedious having to drag a pack of mobs to pick up the one sent off to Narnia.

Yea... I'm pretty sure that was a reason they took the knockback effect off fluid aura and deleted blank entirely.

There were skills that used to do that @joven and they could be used to grief pretty easily. Even so, that doesn't give anyone an excuse to shut ideas down so harshly.

As for community, I think it's important to remember that these forums are a very small bubble of many ffxiv communities. Things that people are up in arms about here are often not even a blip on the radar for communities like reddit or in-game communities. The parser argument for example. This is literally the ONLY place I've ever seen people so mad about it. Everywhere else is like, how do I see my dps? Cool, cool.

Although, the one thing I did see the collective FFXIV including the JP community get angry about was removing the Need button and I guess mentors are pretty well known as being awful across all western servers.

[Paladinleeds]

Yea... I'm pretty sure that was a reason they took the knockback effect off fluid aura

You sure? I've just swapped to WHM and it says it deals a 15-yalm knockback. They took the damage off it though, so it's pretty much a useless spell except for the bind. But even that is useless outside of solo content (and in solo content it's marginal how useful it is). But yeah, hopefully in the next expansion, Fluid Aura gets the prune, or they make knockbacks and binds worth a darn.

[Rockette]

You sure? I've just swapped to WHM and it says it deals a 15-yalm knockback. They took the damage off it though, so it's pretty much a useless spell except for the bind. But even that is useless outside of solo content (and in solo content it's marginal how useful it is). But yeah, hopefully in the next expansion, Fluid Aura gets the prune, or they make knockbacks and binds worth a darn.

Apologies, you're right. I knew they'd taken it out of being useful, just got the details wrong.

Honestly, it's still useful for pushing stubborn ranged mobs into the group like in Library.