Book FATEs Need Improved Spawn Rates

Hello, everyone! How are those Animus books coming along? I'm on my 5th out of 18 right now (working on two weapons) and I have to say that some of the FATEs I need to do for them certainly like to take their time popping up. Let's look at what we know about FATE spawning mechanics, shall we?

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

We looked into this because of the reports we were receiving, but we confirmed that there are no special conditions that need to be triggered for this FATE to occur. However, there is a limit to the number of FATEs that can be active at the same time within an area. Therefore, if you are waiting for a specific FATE to occur, please try completing the other FATEs in the area.

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This is understandable. If there are too many FATEs in a single zone but the one you want isn't up, you may have to complete those other FATEs first so the one you want has a chance to appear. That is reasonable. What isn't reasonable, however, are the abysmal spawn rates for some of these FATEs and the godawful common frequency of the other FATEs popping up. How many times did He's A Firestarter pop up while you were waiting for Return to Cinder, or how long did you have to camp for Everything's Better when the FATE is an easy one to clear in two minutes flat? If this is a joke, then I'm not laughing.

Square, please improve the frequency of spawn rates for book FATEs. Having to delay the next upgrade path for relic weapons once because you didn't expect so little players to have their Animus looked bad on you. I doubt people will be happy if it happens for a second time because they are STILL trying to get their Animus upgrade. Thank you for taking the time to read this thread, and have a nice day.

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Originally Posted by SlyRoyale

Hello, everyone! How are those Animus books coming along? I'm on my 5th out of 18 right now (working on two weapons) and I have to say that some of the FATEs I need to do for them certainly like to take their time popping up. Let's look at what we know about FATE spawning mechanics, shall we?

This is understandable. If there are too many FATEs in a single zone but the one you want isn't up, you may have to complete those other FATEs first so the one you want has a chance to appear. That is reasonable. What isn't reasonable, however, are the abysmal spawn rates for some of these FATEs and the godawful common frequency of the other FATEs popping up. How many times did He's A Firestarter pop up while you were waiting for Return to Cinder, or how long did you have to camp for Everything's Better when the FATE is an easy one to clear in two minutes flat? If this is a joke, then I'm not laughing.

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You know whats awesome? If you take their advice, you're screwed. I did just wait eastern shroud for about 6 hours until the FATE I needed finally spawned. However, as I wanted to do something while waiting, I was doing other Fates with a zenith equipped to potentially drop an ATMA (not that I'm planning to get a 2nd atma/animus, but it does feel a bit better to actually farm something else than a few gil). So I'm doing a Fate and it's roughly 1/1 (X/Y) from the Fate I need. The Fate I need spawnes, I get out of combat, switch to PLD, move to the Fate I need. It finished less than 30 seconds after it started. So realistically, if I had no group, I probably wouldn't even have hit gold if I was standing there right when it spawned and started to attack.


So now I'll have to wait another 5-6 hours and HOPE I can attack the mobs before they get aoe'd this time OR the people this time are kind enough to invite me.

I also waited for 4 hours yesterday no spawn. So yes, I wasted more time on this 1 FATE now that I used for like half of my ATMAs. It's totally ridiculous.



So if you ever want to complete those FATEs get yourself a group and camp EXCACTLY at the spawn, or you're going to have a bad time like I just did.



EDIT: Again, it only lasted around half a minute, but I did obtain gold and I just had to wait 2 hours this time. So I guess the spawn is kind of random at least.

The FATES for the books can't be in the normal rotation. They maybe are in their own rotation and flagged as rare ones so the spawn cycles are much longer. While waiting for one FATE in East shroud, I saw a FATE for the beast tribe there popping up for 20 times at least. On the 27 FATES I did for my Animus, there were maybe 1 or 2 FATES that spawned halfway normally. The vast majority of the rest were FATES I had no clue they even exist because they pop up so rarely. To me it seemed they used these FATES with sadistic intentions lol.

Alternately they could just eliminate the fate aspect (maybe add another dungeon or 2 per book instead). Seriously, didn't we do enough fates in the atma grind?

They should just give the players the option to spawn the FATEs manually, or give the player some way of triggering it (killing X number of mobs, for example). Waiting around is not fun. If I wanted to do that, I'd go fishing.

I spent the entire night last night (save for one AV run with a friend who needed it) standing around waiting for the three Fates for one of my books to spawn. It was absolutely ridiculous.

In total, I started about 5:30pm and didn't finish up with the final one until almost 11pm. So, minus the one AV run that took about a half hour, I spent 5 hours standing around waiting for these to spawn.

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Originally Posted by SlyRoyale

...how long did you have to camp for Everything's Better when the FATE is an easy one to clear...

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This FATE was the longest one I have been waiting for, however, I would like to have it again instead on having The Four Winds... ^^;

This is beyond ridiculous. Much worse than the Atmas. At least with Atmas, you could team up with people, level your Chocobo, get a few gil and seals, help others in their FATEs, meet some new people, queue Duty Finder while you farmed, and most importantly: DO IT AT YOUR OWN PACE.

But no...this is stupid. This forces you to either A).Wait hours doing absolutely NOTHING, or B).Hope you just randomly get lucky and it spawns it when you get there. Since you have to do multiple books, this means you are going to be waiting a very long time to finish, or are very lucky with the spawn timer.

I have no issue with the concept of having to wait a while to get Animus, i dont expect instant gratification, but i cant stand the concept of logging in for hours at a time just to stand around doing NOTHING. This is a waste of my time, and hence a waste of my money. I grumbled about the Atmas spawn rate, but i understand it was RNG, this however...waiting hours for a FATE, is unacceptable imo.

This is the worst content ever its a subscription game ffs not pay to wait sort it out SE even grinding something would be more fun then afking for 5+ hours per book FATE.

At this point I would just settle for longer duration of these FATEs. 15 minutes isn't a lot of time to solo them.

I agree with the OP, it feels like a kick in the teeth after having grinded out all your ATMA's to just have to sit on your thumbs and wait for a specific fate to spawn THREE different times PER BOOK.

I hate it when people say this but... If future content is designed around fates like this for books, count me out. I am bored when doing this. Not having fun... Bored. Yes ffxi had things like this. Hurray for the people who liked that. But me? I shouldn't have to pay to be bored. Please fix this square. You are forgetting your goals and the players on exchange for a hook to just have people log in.