Beastribe FATE respawn question

In the 3.2 preliminary patch notes, we got this:

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[2.0] The time limit for the following FATEs has been reduced from 15 to 10 minutes:

Southern Thanalan
Quenching the Flame / Heroes of the 2nd / Taken
East Shroud
What a Boar / Breaking Dawn / Everything's Better
Outer La Noscea
Full Metal Alchemist / Making the Rounds
Western La Noscea
Watch Your Tongue

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Maybe I'm misinterpreting this badly, but the wording makes it sound like the FATEs for these quests only got a reduction in time limit and not a respawn adjustment. I couldn't find anything else in the patch notes about respawn rates, which they said were coming with this patch. Am I missing something?

Yeah I was confused about this as well. This change would serve only to make it harder to complete these FATEs. If anything they should be reducing the time limit on all the other FATEs that compete with these ones to spawn so we have more chances for them to pop.

I guess maybe that the FATE couldn't possibly respawn within the 15 minute window plus whatever the cooldown was, even if it was completed.

Like, if it spawned at 8:00, would normally end at 8:15, lets assume a 5 minute cooldown, and it could start respawning at 8:20.

With the change, if it spawned at 8:00, would normally end at 8:10, and could respawn at 8:15, which would be more frequently.

This would only make sense if the 'cooldown' period, whatever it is, didn't start until the initial ending time, instead of right when the FATE gets completed.

And that would only make sense if trying to fiddle with their FATE system would cause more problems then it would fix.

Sorry, just kinda thinktyping to myself out loud.

Especially since these fates are soloable now in under 2 minutes, I think the best way to adjust them was decreasing the fate time.

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Originally Posted by Alberel

Yeah I was confused about this as well. This change would serve only to make it harder to complete these FATEs. If anything they should be reducing the time limit on all the other FATEs that compete with these ones to spawn so we have more chances for them to pop.

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Reducing the time from 15 minutes to 10 minutes doesn't make them any harder to complete when they die in 30 seconds.

It's assumed that changing the time limit changes the way they come up in the FATE rotation, ostensibly to make them come up more.