Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
It's even moreso a problem for new players than for veterans. I see them complain about it all the time and they're right to do so. They don't have the level or access to higher levels of BLU builds and spells to align themselves on other players. Even when they have unlocked mount flight, they still arrive on site after the fates are done.

The other problem is that fundamentally people using BLU are only doing it out of laziness and not effectiveness, because it still takes time for FATEs to respawn anyway so everybody sits twiddling their thumbs for minutes between spawns no matter the job used.
Oh yeah, definitely, I can't begin to imagine how this must look and feel to newer players, of which we just got a notable influx due to the Xbox thing. It's rather ironic even that some people were doomposting that letting Xbox players in would "bring toxicity" that they claim didn't exist before, and yet... it's longtime established players on their Blue Mage that are acting poorly right now.

And I don't know if it's effective or not, but I've been trying to do the FATEs as DPS because it means I often *can't* just spam an AOE to slaughter everything before anyone else can tag anything due to syncing taking away said AOE skills, or how the single boss mobs take awhile to chew through in the rare times I end up doing those kind of FATEs with no Blue Mage in sight or their spells fail to nuke the boss (and I guess have a long cooldown so they can't spam it? I'm not entirely sure what all spells Blue Mages are even using).