Quote Originally Posted by Gurgeh View Post
You met lots of happy people doing EX, Chaotic, and Savage?
Correct. When I entered Chaotic, clearly everyone in there was having fun because we were finally in large scale content again after so much solo content in Endwalker.

In the Extreme, I was laughing and joking with the people I met. They all seemed so cheerful, and a rather good amount of times they dropped a discord link and I could hear that they enjoyed the content and were having a good time together.

The same was really the case in Savage. They were all quite upbeat and excited to get their clear, and often I was helping them out (joining progression-to-clear parties). They really didn't seem all negative about it like you see on the forums, and seemed to enjoy the high-end content in this game.
I now suspect that actually, your in a savage FC, and you do all your content in a partial static over voice, minimum. If not mostly near full static.
I do everything in PF, especially since I love meeting new people every day. That's actually one of the things I love about MMORPGs. Not just talking to the same people always. PUGs are really one of the big joys of this genre, for me personally.

I'm not currently in a static and a lot of my FC doesn't even raid. Those that do are in their own statics mostly and just boast "I got my clear!" etc. I think there is 1 or 2 statics that formed out of the FC (it's a very large FC after all), but I only use it for socializing.
Probably using ... to boot.
You can say that in a general sense about players in general. You can't just throw that around and say that to specific people though. It devalues all the work they put in if they don't and is rude. I believe in not using such things because it trains your muscle memory and raid awareness, an important skill that makes you more observant and able to handle unusual mechanics better. I said when the content released that I got around 9 vuln stacks. I explained in my earlier post that after 2 weeks, I have enjoyed learning the mechanics and had finally about got all of them, which probably wouldn't be a thing if your comment was true since they cause you to not need to learn them. For what it's worth, I use an echo macro to remember the Bird CE order (+, O and Knockback macros).
You don't 'meet' anyone in OC. Is this another discord thing?
Jokes in shout. Talking in party chat. All the chatter about it in social channels such as linkshells, FC, discords, etc. It can be more sociable when the instance locks since you have to work harder to rez each other and defeat bosses in a single party. In any case, there's ample time for them to chat while dead, which happens pretty frequently to many players.