Yo-Kai Event: BLU Major Griefing Problem

[Canadane]

Why not embrace BLU's power and use it for your version of what you deem "good" then?
Start up a FATE party in PF and you can be the BLU to kill everything after everyone has gotten their hit in.

Just keep in mind there might be someone outside the party seeing it like you are now.

[Allegor]

It's not griefing since this is quite literally one of the (very few) things BLU can do and it's built for... though it is genuinely annoying too. Yes, you can simply party up with a BLU or level one yourself, but I highly doubt that was the intended way this event was to be played. It is frustrating to fly to a fate that ends before you can even dismount.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I don’t know how bad the BLU “griefing” is in today’s Yo-kai rerun compared to the ones I had back in ShB. I farmed all the unlockables with minimal BLU help (didn’t understood how the job worked at that point lol) with minimal issues. I simply change how I approach each map when I notice a group of BLU arrives in X map outside joining parties:

1. Keep your map open & be the early bird to every FATEs. No, seriously. A single BLU can maybe wipe one wave of packs in 2-3 GCDs but they tend to be uncoordinated. Meaning you have at least 3-4 more waves of enemies to tag & build that credit assuming you arrive early. Then, when you think you have contributed enough? (Hello gathering FATEs) Get off the FATE! Keybind your mount! Have your lv sync macro ready if you’re that invested! (I didn’t ). Also preferably on tanks thanks to how credits being largely enmity-based.
2. Watch the completion% of the FATE you’re heading to. If I’m still 25s away from reaching my destination and it’s already at 40%, I won’t even bother to, unless I know that FATE lasts quite a while.
3. So.. there’s a lot of BLU. Being the early bird doesn’t help much for the most part. You see two FATEs up at the same time? Go to the opposite direction. Better get 1 gold credit than try for 2 in vain unless again, you know that one FATE cannot be burnt down in 4 seconds.

Back then, I used to see people who b!tched about BLUs happen to not do any, or at least didn’t try smarter as something in common. Well yeah ofc they missed the cake. They bang their head to the wall over and over after refusing to think and/or try different way to approach the case. “Griefing” becomes an odd word to come across over time ever since then and should absolutely be taken as grain of salt IMHO.

1HKO’ing bosses FATEs needs to be tuned down though. I didn’t remember seeing many of those but they’re certainly more annoying to deal with because unlike other types of FATEs, you don’t get 3-4 or more opportunities to tag.

[JokoCGN]

... aye, another mimimi thread. wondering if mankind were just created to whine about anything they can't / don't wanna do.

but, to the thread itself
participating in fates isn't restricted at all as long u sync ur lvl, doesn't matter if it's a regular job or as blue or beast in 7.0 later on.
and that doesn't depend on any events like Yo-kai or doing fates for any achievements.
sure, playing blu is gonna be faster at doing fates BUT peeps invested time into lvling blu and get all them spells. so? let them use it.

for all other peeps playing regular jobs coz they don't like blu by any reason: be fast at them popping fates, join any PF up - there is a blu in for sure as regular jobs -, it's mostly a fate train at the active map.
so if u don't sleep while u're doing fates, u will get them full rewards each time. meanwhile, be happy if u're doing a fate train with some blus into it, they will make them fates faster. u can take a nap while waiting for them fates to repop when did them properly.

cheers o/

[Theforbiddenboi]

Probably in the minority here but this event has been suffering trying to farm atma and zodiak books. I sure picked a bad time for this haha.

[Meifala]

for the love of hydaelyn ya'll act like you're gonna die if you don't clear the whole thing in the first week. there's literally so much time left.

[Silberzerox]

Been a few days now with the event. I had 2 BLUs that ignored that there are other players, but most of them wherent an issue.
The big issue is the Players that go berzerk in this FATEs and kill everything as fast as possible and finishing the FATEs as fast as possible, letting other players no chance to get silver- or goldrating. More than once i saw Sprouds trying to reach a FATE and couldnt make it because they where missing the maxspeed-upgrade. You could point that out, openly wait a little bit or start smalltalking the first seconds. No F.. given, most of the time there are 2-3 players burn down the FATE as fast as possible.
BLU is a critcal to see class in this kind of events but at the moment its less an class-issue.

[caffe_macchiato]

It's Final Fantasy XIV by Square Enix. You know, the same company that makes a dozen gachas a year then shuts them all down? The same company that tells you that not having content is a good thing because it "lets you play other games"? The same company that openly allowed FFXIV to become the world's most hackable, bottable, moddable, and exploitable MMO? It's like asking SEGA to stop making bad Sonic games. You know what to expect. It's been 20 years since Square Enix made a good Final Fantasy game and FFXIV was a brief reprieve akin to roping Jim Carrey into your failed franchise. They're not going to listen to people griping about an event that's almost a decade old. Get all the medals you want with the most amount of force possible, and if someone apes you, it's time to ape them back.

[Taliriah]

preemptive lol for when people who blacklist blue mages start wondering why mobs suddenly die out of nowhere in 7.0

[ZiraZ]