Quote Originally Posted by Taliriah View Post
There is: play a blue mage yourself, so you can keep up with the speed at which they clear fates.
Like I said, I do play Blue Mage, but it's not worth putting up with *other* Blue Mages or possibly being a hindrance to non-Blue Mages, so I avoid both by staying on Maduin and farming FATEs late at night when I'm fairly sure of being alone. The problem is I still run into the occasional band of "travelers" who nuke things before I arrive, or non-Blues who become immediately repulsed by me being there and mount back up and fly to the next FATE. In both cases, I've gotten some not-so-nice tells and emotes sent my way and the only recourse was to blacklist+move to a different zone (while possibly getting blacklisted myself despite saying nothing, I was simply "wrong place at the wrong time").

This entire event has done wonders to dispel any notion I had of a "super friendly playerbase" and all it took was some limited time goofy looking minions/mounts/weapons, lol.