I used fates the entire way to 50 for my second class, and I had no problem with gear.

I did one dungeon or so every 10 levels, and I bought gear with GC tokens, which you get multitudes of when leveling with FATEs.

Everything else is horribly slow, so make those faster, instead of making FATEs slower.

Maybe make dungeons and other things give more seals or gil, if that seems to be an issue.

I don't see how if you don't have at least 1 50, if you haven't done all the quests already, how you can have a valid opinion on this.

A fact we can all agree on is, after you finish all the quests, all you have left for leveling are dungeons, FATEs, grinding, and leves.

Noone (I hope) will say grinding or leves makes you a better player, shows you more story, makes you learn your class, nor do they get you gear.

So that leaves dungeons and FATEs.

Dungeon exp SHOULD be buffed, as it is at least more challenging than FATEs, and requires group coordination and at least makes you know your role somewhat. I don't think anyone would disagree on that.

That leaves the question of how to DO dungeons. As a DPS my queues are 50 minutes long at the beginning of the game, when everyone was queueing. I shudder to think what the queue times are now, esp for non-storyline required dungeons.

So what do you want me to do with my 50 minutes?

The fact is there is not enough content to grind to 50 for more than 1, maybe 2 classes. After that, grind is your only option, and FATEs are by far the best way to do so. Nerfing it accomplishes nothing.