Anyone actually do "Magitek Menace" Fate/Quest?

So.. I can never seem to get this thing to pop. Feels like I've wasted hours grinding fates in E. Shroud to get it to go... working as intended? Does anyone actually do this, or are we all just abandoning this when it pops on the beast quest queue?

I used too, until having to do the same quest each and every day and wait an eternity for the Fate to freaking pop, I just gave up. I can't even bear to do it with friends anymore. It's that bad.

Did it three times. I get the item then use it whenever the daily is avaliable.

But, I've been doing FATEs in that area to level archer, so I dont just stand there waiting.

Yeah I did and got the item and didnt even have the quest. So its there in my inventory taking space.

I just level a craft while I wait and it usually doesn't take long to pop.

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Originally Posted by GilbertLapine

So.. I can never seem to get this thing to pop. Feels like I've wasted hours grinding fates in E. Shroud to get it to go... working as intended? Does anyone actually do this, or are we all just abandoning this when it pops on the beast quest queue?

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After waiting for 1.5 hours on a sylph fate (wrench in the works? ) I have abandoned every single fate quest since then.

I just go to the place the FATE would pop up, call my Chocobo and kill every Sylph around me to level my Chocobo until the FATE pop up.
It is much better than just only waiting and standing around.

I did it once. Waited like 1 hour before it poped, and some people farming it to prevent farm abuse in the future said they were waiting for 2+ hours before I came.

These dailies need the same fix as SE did for CT/hildibrand fates : one every 30 mins or less

There was one day that the fate took over one hour and a half to spawn, they need to stop putting those fates in quests or really increase re spawn rate by a lot.

Good feedback -- glad to see I'm not alone. It sounds like the only people that are benefiting from this are those already in the area leveling.. which seems a bit odd for a daily quest everyone (even level 50s) need to do. Even more odd considering so few people would ever fate grind in east shroud... I tried it once, it was terrible. South Shroud and Costa have always proved much more time effective for the late-20's-early-30's level range East Shroud fates seem to (mostly) cover.

So.. it's either fate in the area until you get a stockpile of the item, or wait an hour for the fate to pop. Seems like a bit too large of a time sink for a daily quest.

I still do it but what the real kicker is sitting around waiting for it to spawn, have it spawn and do it but then not get credit because the item doesn't go into the quest item bag but instead goes into your real bag which is full. Had this happen 3 times now.....

This is why you bail out on the sylphs and go help the amal'ja as soon as you can instead.

As others have already said, you can get the item without having the quest active. Also, you can't stockpile them... It's unique :( However, if you have a friendly FC it's easier, just let members who are in the area know to give you a shout out if the Fate's up. You'll still have to hurry to get there if a lot of people are after it but it's not too hard to get credit once you're there. Hope that helps.

I'll do it if it's there while doing the other quests, if not I'll skip it

After playing the waiting game again and again i lost interest and abandoned the quest. I'll stick to the other beast tribe i think.

Once. Never again. Everytime I get it I only complete two dailies. Now, with the second rank of both factions, if I get that Fate quest it just means one extra quest for the other faction.

I do it every time I have it. Never takes more than 20 minutes for it to pop, to date for me anyway, and I can always watch some Netflix on my second monitor while I wait. Not like I'm in a hurry.

I only got it once before hitting rank 2.
Never have to do it again.

I've done this fate 4 times now and twice I arrived to the spawn mere seconds after it was defeated. Both of those times I waited between 30 and 40 minutes before it respawned. Since these fates were patched I dont believe you should have to wait any longer than 45 minutes at the longest.

Every time o/

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Originally Posted by Dazd

I just level a craft while I wait and it usually doesn't take long to pop.

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Yay a reasonable person. ^_^

Abandon and move on. This is the saddest attempt at a Daily I've ever seen. Of the 493,901,899,221,013,981 things they could have implemented as a Daily this is definitely in the top 10 worst.

Me and my friends have a Complete understanding of MMO's as we've been in them since dialup ISP came into origins. Our rule of thumb goes like this : Some quests you see the examples of smart intellectual creative devs,
other quests get put into play from people who should not and never should be allowed to think about making quests. You ALWAYS run into some of the latter sadly in every Great MMO I've experienced ( 90%+ of almost everyone released).
Just have to roll with the punch and speak out and pray who ever made the terrible choices gets better supervision.

I've done it every time I got it. I must have been lucky, it either popped while i was doing other daily quests so i could get the item to turn in next time I got the quest, or the fate popped within ten mins of my accepting it if I didn't already have the item.

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I just level a craft while I wait and it usually doesn't take long to pop.

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Originally Posted by Despite

Yay a reasonable person. ^_^

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Are you kidding me. So when you go to pick up your dry cleaning It's acceptable for the clerk to say wait 45mins while we get to working on your order because we forgot about YOURS.
So it's acceptable to YOU when you go to corner store if the clerk tells you "please wait outside till the store is empty of customers than I can wait on you"
So it's ACCEPTABLE to YOU when get home from work if your Partner locks the door and says "Please wait outside 30 minutes than I MIGHT let you in"
So it's acceptable to YOU if when you go thru a drive thru to pickup food for the cashier to say "please go home and wash your hands and put on a pirates hat than come back"

What PLANET are you from? We PAY for FUN THINGS TO DO. If sitting around for 20-240 minutes twiddling your thumbs is FUN to you lord have mercy on you.
YOU need to make sure and talk to SE and EVERY company in the world and get those rose colored glasses into production. I want the first pair...

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Originally Posted by Brutikus4th

If sitting around for 20-240 minutes twiddling your thumbs is FUN to you lord have mercy on you.

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Worked for FFXI.
*rimshot*

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Originally Posted by Brutikus4th

Such anger

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Wow, I think you need to relax. To some people, crafting is fun.

He voiced his choice of what to do during the down time, someone agreed, everyone else gives some input of what they do to while away the time and everyone goes home happy. Wouldn't that have been better?

Ranked up with the Amaljaa so just doing my 6 daillies with them and hopefully the sylph daily fate respawn timer will be increased by the time i am done with the Amaljaa.

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Originally Posted by EveAlexandra

Wow, I think you need to relax. To some people, crafting is fun.

He voiced his choice of what to do during the down time, someone agreed, everyone else gives some input of what they do to while away the time and everyone goes home happy. Wouldn't that have been better?

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Oh wow neato. Looky mommy while I dwell away endless time I'm appalled people can't waist all the time in the world to do DAILIES.... Not everyone dwells in basement and has completely unlimited time to just make muffins in video game.
Now as to be Practical how about reading the post below yours. It's a reasonable opinion of how to handle it till the devs fix what IS plain and simple a terrible design. As per YOUR recommendations we all post what we could do to kill 20-240mins
I do believe the devs have STRICTLY said such talk is against the forums rules. And per your view you are recommending such and I hope not everyone is so naïve. This topic isn't about 'oh looky what I can do to kill 1-2 hrs. It's about a daily quest
that was poorly designed. A few good recommendations have been made. If you truly think voicing opinions about what all million things you can do ingame in 20-240 minutes helps this post in any form or fashion than I leave that to your great
quest of endless insight of nothingness.

I mostly hated that most of the dailies are quick and easy to find and do, and when i got this, i only needed 5 phil to get a new item, and it took forever for me to find it, then missed it before it ended. Took an hour or so for it to pop again, after another fate popped there before it. Just seemed so out of whack with the other dailies, which are pretty quick. Not a hard fate, done with only two of us there doing it, but that wait seemed so odd compared to other dailies. :\

This fate you refer to is flawed. For one.. it's not soloable given they place the Spawn spot for this FATE in the middle of a herd of aggroing mobs once you level sync.

You could pull just the Magitek to a safe zone but then your forced to whittle down the ridiculous amount of HP in the given 12 min for the FATE.

As a Healer in cleric stance there is no way to kill this mob with the given time.
I have not tried with a DPS class but .. i am sure you would soon run out of HP b4 the mob does.

A dps and healer class with a couple of chocobos could end this FATE but... would be close on the timer.

I only completed this FATE once. It was given as a choice to repeat a couple days later and i just pass on it. Not worth the time.

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Originally Posted by Brutikus4th

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Dude, take a friggin' pill. Being that confrontational to people is only making your side of the argument(of which there isn't one, by the way) look bad.

And I'm pretty sure the devs said something or other about not attacking other posters, but you're sure as hell not listening to them, so where do you get off criticizing other people for posting something that's at least CONNECTED to the current discussion?

Yeah, Magitek Menace is a waste of a daily. Instead of giving that one out, the sylph should just randomly tell players they can only get 2/3 of their rep that day. :)

The first time I waited about an hour for the fate, and it didn't spawn. I got the quest a couple more times, and now I keep it until I finish the other dailies, then drop it, and leave. There's a lot of other stuff to do, and waiting around for fates for dailies doesn't rank very high.

You're absolutely right. Posters can say they love taking hour breaks ingame to make roasted chicken.
BUT what right does anyone have to post and say I Should Have To sit and watch them....
The topic is about a daily quest that technically most should be able to do In the morning
before heading to work. Not about 10, 000 ways to sit around and watch paint dry. When you can go run
two or three dungeons in the time it takes to do 5tome nickel and dime daily than all the time for forum trolling
and discussing who bakes the best apple pie should troll elsewhere.

Edit: just to clarify. This was in response to the last guy replying to me..
I do hope they fix this soon. Needs taking out of the optional quests as this is NOT a daily.

Weekly worth 10x current rewards... maybe.. not a Daily.