Fates are dying on my server. [Leviathan]

Since patch 2.1 was released, it's easier and less boring to level via duty roulette / dungeon. I tried some leveling via FATE and I was obtaining between 10k and 15k exp point each 5 minutes. By doing dungeons/dutty roulette you get 2-3k exp with each mob, and a bonus of almost 50% exp of your current level (around 120k-150k in a lv 35) in 30 minutes aprox. So basically, I'm getting a level every 2 days just doing 1 dutty roulette everyday for my WHM, plus you get drops, seals and gil and overall: Experience playing your class in a party.

Yeah, fates are pretty much dead on Leviathan. Didn't the patch notes say that fates were going to be dynamic, based on how many people are doing fates in the zone? I thought I read that, and if that is true, the mechanic is surely broken. I'm not saying that I should be able to solo "king" fates if no one has done it in a while, but there are times when I've seen fates expire and then when they repop, the fate is still acting as if there should be 100 people there in order to complete it.

FATEs are less zerged but I always had 2-3 groups grinding in January 2014 around Quarrymill and then Costa Del Sol. Costa is certainly a bit less. Normally i do Quarrymill 20-30, Costa 30-35, then Coerthas till 50. Coerthas is pretty busy at prime 4+ groups on Levihatan.

Yeah, last night I was in Northern Thanalan (on Lamia, though), and my three person fate party was trying to do the FATE where you turn in the earth sprite cores. We grinded mobs for the entire fate and I turned in 31 cores (so presumably the other two turned in about the same), and we didn't succeed. We only reached about 75% of the bar. Baron Bomb we killed with only a couple of minutes left on the clock, after being there for over ten minutes. Dynamically shifting the difficulty is fine, but this is ridiculous.

I'm on Leviathan and usually see a good amount of people FATE grinding at Costa, Coerthas and Northern Thanalan.

I think FATE participation has recovered somewhat now that they've adjusted the Low-Level Duty Roulette so you're no longer getting the starter dungeons 95% of the time. FATEs have once more become an attractive choice for people who want to level with the least effort possible.