Forlorn maiden buff on Max Level.

Make the buff give additional gemstones instead of bonus experience when you're on max level.

Anything that makes bicolour gemstones easier to get sounds good to me.

I get the feeling the number we get is balanced around that first week with 4 or 5 parties going from fate to fate and completing them instantly.

Thats a very good idea

Good idea.

Why are you doing FATEs at max level?

You should be using those FATEs for leveling alt jobs.

+1, lets go

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

Why are you doing FATEs at max level?

You should be using those FATEs for leveling alt jobs.

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Perhaps they have all their alt jobs leveled (or the jobs aren't high enough for SB, ShB, or EW FATEs yet).

I've got all mine leveled yet I still do FATEs. Sometimes I'm after more gemstones. Sometimes I'm keeping friends company.

Personally I don't see a need for Forlorn Maiden or The Forlorn to trigger a gemstone bonus but then I also wouldn't complain if they did.

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

Why are you doing FATEs at max level?

You should be using those FATEs for leveling alt jobs.

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So, what, you can't get bicolor gemstones anymore if you level all your jobs?

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

Why are you doing FATEs at max level?

You should be using those FATEs for leveling alt jobs.

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I mean if max out the the shared fates you get more items in a shop that has a mount that requires alot of those gems to get.

Sharlayan Diadema-800 gemstones glamour piece

Bicolor Gemstone Voucher -100 gemstones u need about 500 vouchers for a mount and per someone math "500 vouchers each, = 50,000 gemstones, = 3,572 FATE completions!"

or if you want to get all the music as well barding etc.

So yeah any boost will help with that

+1 for make it happen se

This is a great idea. I've often thought about making this very same post myself.

To anyone that disagrees or thinks that it's unneeded, in addition to the very simply put grind Axxion just posted above me as a reason more Bi-color gemstones are always welcome, there's currently 0 incentive for players that do not need experience points to defeat Forlorn right now, and as FATEs are meant to be content that many players can engage in together, this creates unnecessary friction between those players that don't need EXP and those that do.

Currently, if I'm grinding for Gemstones as a max level and a low-level player shows up to the FATE, and The Forlorn spawns, I could choose to spend another 2-3 min killing what's essentially a Boss FATE enemy in terms of HP values so that they can get more exp, or I could just be a jerk and ignore it and complete the fight while they struggle to do so. Why not just make the Forlorn's buff also buff the Gemstone value of the next FATE by the same %?

I don't even think that the buff should convert when you hit max level, but should just apply to Gemstones AND Experience. It's a simple way to make FATEs, which have a huge problem of being very boring, just a little bit more exciting when the unusual thing does happen, rather than a potential pain.

FATEs is a long grind if you want both Gemstone Vouchers novelty items, and I'm sure Square Enix is still getting their money's worth for someone subscribing long enough to do it. Not to mention, those same players would experience less friction doing FATEs if their goals are aligned with everyone else out doing FATEs, and you just know they're going to add more Voucher novelty items every expansion.

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Anything that makes bicolour gemstones easier to get sounds good to me.

I get the feeling the number we get is balanced around that first week with 4 or 5 parties going from fate to fate and completing them instantly.

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Tempted to poke the FATE thread I made but I like this idea so much I'll ride the tangent here lol- I really think SE needs to work on the dynamic scaling, not just for bosses, but in general... FATEs have never been 'hard' so I hate to see the argument like challenge, they're a good open world content WHEN ITS VALUED but after that due to their fairly poor dynamic scaling they sometimes hold the keys to content that 'was reasonable' but is not longer such. Naturally if more people join it's not dynamic in one direction.

Honestly I believe improving their dynamic nature will also in general encourage more emergent participation.

Would love to see them address that, and definitely OPs idea as well as it's quite nice.

Looks like i was right, Fates now give bonus gemstones as well as Bonus Experience.