FATE: What a Boar (It's a secret to everyone...)

Or maybe not.

I've spent more time in East Shroud today than is probably healthy gathering the 15 legendary medals for the Yo-kai event. Very nearly all of that time was spent in the Sylphlands area. This gave me plenty of opportunity to keep tabs on What a Boar and to see if I could control the spawn since I was the only one clearing the FATEs.

I noticed something after running around for a little while. What a Boar, Everything's Better, and Breaking Dawn were never up at the same time. Seemed a little weird, so I stopped doing any FATEs but those three. Whether I let the current one expire or completed it, I never saw either of the other two until while the current one was active. Admittedly, I didn't let them run their course very often because I wanted my medals so I could leave. The time between one ending and the next one spawning was also variable. Sometimes it was immediate, sometimes it took a few minutes. Maybe even as long as five minutes (I wasn't very good with timing the interval).

I also never saw the same one spawn twice in a row. I can't say this is impossible, but it never happened for me. There was also no set order to which one spawned. Either of the two that wasn't just up had a seemingly equal chance to pop. I don't think I had to do Breaking Dawn and Everything's Better a combined total of more than 3 times in between What a Boar spawns.

I ended up with 9 tusks by the time I got my 15 medals and could have had a few more if someone else hadn't shown up and killed Kafre before I could get back there from doing one of the other two FATEs. You have a zero chance to make it from Breaking Dawn if someone is already waiting.

If this has been posted already and is common knowledge, I apologize. A quick search only returned posts lamenting how long it takes What a Boar to spawn whenever Boar Wars was drawn as a Sylph daily quest.

Happy hunting.

Those fates are linked as you observed so the one needed for beast tribe cannot pop while another in that cycle is still up. The fate for tribe in southern thanalan is also linked to two specific other fates, while outer LN just has two fates linked together instead of three, both of them giving tribe tokens.

It's easy to tell which FATEs are linked by the fact that they only last 10 minutes unlike the rest which are 15 minutes. I notice this myself and deduced that you need to clear one FATE to make the other pop. That was apparently SE's solution to make token FATEs pop, but nobody noticed until Yo-Kai. Now that this has been discovered, people doing beast quest can rest easy now since these FATEs are triggerable, so to speak. I never did the FATEs in Western La Noscea or Southern Thanalan, but just look for the 10 minute FATEs and do them to pop the token FATE.