Yo-Kai Event: BLU Major Griefing Problem

[Sesera]

I decided to level my blu before farming the fates for the event because honestly one shooting fates and then getting yelled at sounds fun, so I went to farm level 50 fates (my blu is 50 and doesn't have those one shotty spells yet) without realizing those were amongst the fates needed for the event so there were a whole group farming the fates and it turns out that nobody was one shotting everything? Even the few blu mages who were present. So I got my watch out, got a bunch of medals and unlocked a few minions.

Mayhap the good people on the forums are simply exaggerating about the whole issue? But surely that can't be, it seems so out of character for people to make mountains out of molehills around here.

Are every fates getting nuked by blue? No
Did some players were forbidden to do a fate here and there because blue mage decided to be selfish? Absolutly and it should not happening period.

[VerdeLuck]

Dynamis has been worse than expected with this. I swear I only get credit for one out of every 15 or so fates I try because the server is just swarmed with BLU who have the traveler tag.
It's infuriating.

[Luluya]

For me it's less an issue of them nuking FATES and more the hydropulling, if stuff like that is allowed in the overworld then things like Provoke should be as well.

Also not directly related to BLU, but on the lower level FATES ranged jobs/classes can often kill the spawning mobs before they enter the FATE zone, which prevents melee from getting credit.

All in all, I think this event is just a fine display of how perfectly terrible overworld content is in FFXIV.

[Oizen]

I completed the event and I had no problem with this, and most players ended up making it go faster for me.

My general advice is:
ARR Fates:
-Join parties if you can as it almost always guarantees max credit
-Play Phys Range and exploit their superior range to tag things faster than any BLU can, you don't need to get the kill just hit things once, BIG aoes help so I went Dancer but realistically any phys range probably works.

HW+ Onwards:
-Play a tank with tank stance on, enmity generation is factored into credit, or just keep doing the Phys Range thing

Honestly by the time I hit the Stormblood fates BLU cheese basically fell off, it was still being used but far less effectively.
Its really not that bad.

[ReynTime]

This was already a problem the last time this event happened. They learned absolutely nothing from it.

Everyone blames the Blue Mages when it's clearly SquareEnix's incompetence.

People aren't free of responsibility if they willingly do this type of thing because they only think of themselves, that's a very immature way of thinking.
Exploiting features or tools you didn't create doesn't change the fact you're exploiting them.

[Reinha]

Exploiting features or tools you didn't create doesn't change the fact you're exploiting them.

It's not exploitation when you use something for its intended purpose. Being overpowered against low level enemies whilst synched to their level is the entire point of limited jobs. It's what they were designed to do and why they were limited from doing other content.

We believe one of the unique traits of the blue mage is the ability to learn and use the monster's abilities that could potentially break the balance of the game. In order to bring out this uniqueness as much as possible, we have made the Blue Mage into a Limited Job that can be enjoyed alone.

[Sjol]

It's not exploitation when you use something for its intended purpose. Being overpowered against low level enemies whilst synched to their level is the entire point of limited jobs. It's what they were designed to do and why they were limited from doing other content.

Do we really know what the intended purpose was? Has it been explicitly stated. I would say there's evidence to the contrary as BLU gets dramatically reduced experience from FATEs compared to just normal mob kills.

[Reinha]

Do we really know what the intended purpose was? Has it been explicitly stated. I would say there's evidence to the contrary as BLU gets dramatically reduced experience from FATEs compared to just normal mob kills.

"to learn and use the monster's abilities that could potentially break the balance of the game" is pretty clear. If you can learn a spell, the intention is that you can use it. If you are able to one-shot a fate boss that has not been made immune like some other fate bosses have, the intention is that BLUs can one-shot that specific fate.

[Sjol]

"to learn and use the monster's abilities that could potentially break the balance of the game" is pretty clear. If you can learn a spell, the intention is that you can use it. If you are able to one-shot a fate boss that has not been made immune like some other fate bosses have, the intention is that BLUs can one-shot that specific fate.

I would make a distinction between things they intend and things they haven't gotten around to. They may think FATE bosses should be immune to Missile, e.g., but just haven't gotten around to changing their configuration because it's not a high priority compared to everything else.