Quote Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus View Post
from a few posts I translated some of the japanese are on the fence of the icons. They see the good and bad of them. They dislike the well easy mode of it but at the same time feel it could be good to help newbie to ffxiv/mmo. Most mmo out now are not very newbies to mmo friendly. So SE trying to get into that looks like. According to one poster he called them wet blanket marks.
Well they can always turn it off if they think it makes the game easy.