Please re-enable registering users to the mute list while bound by duty

[kaldrenon]

I recently submitted a bug report when I saw that this functionality had disappeared: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-bound-by-duty

This bug has been filed as "Working as Intended," meaning it was not changed by accident.

This my request that you revert this change and restore "Register to Mute List" to the Block Functions while in an instanced duty.

My primary use case for the mute list is dungeons and PvP, in which players sometimes spam chat with macros. These macros are very distracting and irritating while trying to complete the content, especially when they contain "<se.*>" items which make them play sound.

Without the mute list, I am unaware of a way to silence those players - and especially those sound effects - without hiding chat completely or muting System sounds. I would rather not have to do those things because then I will miss messages and sounds from valid sources. The mute list was great for letting me only silence the spammers.

Please restore this functionality, it was useful and there was no need to remove it.

[CidHeiral]

Agreed, now I can't mute armchair commanders spamming annoying sound effects in frontline.

[kaldrenon]

This is the main reason I want it, too.

I know some people appreciate having a shot caller, so I don't want the solution to be disabling macros or sound effects or whatever else during Frontline. But we should have the ability to opt out as individuals.

And we had it! I just believe it was a mistake to take it away.

[Dodfisk]

In opposition to this, I would like to see the ability to take people off mute AND blacklists in content, as there are instances where you have someone there and they're attempting to impart information to the group. Take a Mentor Roulette I recently had, where 2 of the 4 people were blacklisted in an EX trial.

That said, I very much agree with your reasons as to why you'd want to add someone to a mute list while instanced.

[AstralChair]

I don’t understand why they removed the option to mute people while on duty. We’re being harassed, and for some reason, the company refuses to address this problem. I find noise marcos annoying and disturbing, especially when I’m trying to focus during a fight, but now the only way to avoid hearing it is to mute all system sounds. It’s one thing for them not to help us prevent harassment, but making it harder for us to manage the situation is frustrating and unfair.

[CidHeiral]

I don’t understand why they removed the option to mute people while on duty. We’re being harassed, and for some reason, the company refuses to address this problem.

Read the patch notes. It's under Known Issues at the bottom.