Fate Contribution Feels Random

Another Odin kill, another silver reward.

I've been doing fates as a WHM since late August and I still can't tell how well I've done until the reward pops up.

As most of us healers know, you get jack all for raising or even healing, surprisingly.

Lately, I've been staying in Cleric stance trying to DPS. I've had this method work for me on both Odin/Behemoth, but only once each.

My latest Odin Fate is probably my most confusing kill as of yet. In the past, if I died, and/or threw out lots of res's I expected to do poorly. However, this time my party was on him from from 100%-0 with no deaths and very little damage taken. I spent the entire fight in Cleric stance with constant casts only stopping to move out of AOE. My entire party got gold except me.

There really doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to how Fate contribution works. I've shown up to Fates, hit one mob and got gold. I've been to other Fates during their entire duration only to get silver. Hell, I've read about players tanking a boss for the entire encounter only to end up with similar fates (no pun intended).

I had someone in my LS mention that there is only so many Gold medals per fight (I know, sounds ridiculous to me as well) but perhaps there is truth to this. It would at least make sense from a contribution standpoint. Top DPS players get Gold, obviously, those underneath them, Silver, and then Bronze. It's the only thing that would explain players putting forth full contribution, yet still being rewarded as if they hadn't. Of course this gap will only widen as DPS get ever better gear.

SE needs to release this information to the player base. I feel guilty as hell playing a healing class and not wanting to heal others in fear of not getting rewarded (which isn't even working anymore).

Just finished Behemoth this morning. Pumped out 5 mana bars healing the MT/PT and got absolutely nothing. Not even Bronze. I am done playing a healing class on fates until this garbage is fixed.

it's based on enmity generation from what i heard.

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Originally Posted by sakraycore

it's based on enmity generation from what i heard.

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I've heard the same thing. There is no way this is the sole contributing factor if at all. If it were, we wouldn't be seeing healers having all these problems as healing generates a MASSIVE amount of threat. Not to mention, this sort of model would favor tanks far too greatly as all they do is generate aggro.

Well, in Cohertas near Camp Dragonhead the FATE boss was almost dead. I manged to land one hit as Dragoon. Guess what, for som random reasone I got gold. For one hit with True Thrust. Something is clearly wrong here

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Originally Posted by SandWolf96

Well, in Cohertas near Camp Dragonhead the FATE boss was almost dead. I manged to land one hit as Dragoon. Guess what, for som random reasone I got gold. For one hit with True Thrust. Something is clearly wrong here

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Party participation seems to effect it. I've gone from full to dead main tanking on Steropes before and had my friends join in last second with one or two hits and get gold with full credit.