Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
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.
Honestly, this community is why I missed most of Heavensward. Everyone tows the lie of positivity until you ger verbally harassed or stalked. Luckily, I got my lumps earlier. ARR and HW were super toxic. Honestly, Blue Mages acting like children can't even compare. My best friend, who is a damn saint, has a list he started keeping because everyone would say how friendly and nice everyone was. What his list was when people would tell him to uninstall or for lack of a better verbage restart his life. My friend barely speaks in game chats. He types too slow. Think millennial boomer normie, and that's him. So if he refuses to play this game because it's too toxic, I tend to believe him.