What do you think about spamming FATEs and Dungeons ?

[Jynxii]

Seriously, how is that better than what we have now? Because that's the alternative most people are begging for. When you're doing fates or dungeons, you're moving around, you're fighting a variety of enemies, there's more stuff going on. At WORST, it's more exciting than the typical kill colibri monster for 3-4 hours we had in FFXI.

The problem is that you don't kill a variety of enemies during FATEs, you spam your instant casts for 40 seconds, then go sit back in town until another pops up and you do this again. If the FATEs went for the 'intended' duration, or lasted 5-10 minutes each (depending on the FATE), then it would be far more exciting. It would even bring dungeons in as an alternative because they'd be on pretty even footing; Dungeon takes about 60 minutes and nets you X experience while 60 minutes of FATEs would also net you X(x) experience, not XXXXXXX experience.

At least in a mob grinding party you can actually do a rotation and 'fight' the enemies.

[Shiyo]

At least in a mob grinding party you can actually do a rotation and 'fight' the enemies.

I learned how to play all my classes in FFXI leveling up in exp parties, I only learned how to tab bio/aero and spam stone leveling SCH and WHM in FF14. I learned what every single ability did, how to use it, how much damage it did, how much enmity it generated, how it skillchained, what were effective combos, how to manage my mp, what stats were good for my class, what food was good for my class, how every other class worked in a party set up besides my own, what was my best way of healing or dealing damage, etc. In FF14 I learned that bio and aero are good for tagging enemies quickly and Blizzard2/BLM is the best for tagging mobs and gaining exp in fates.