Thank you for FATEs :)

[Tolmos]

This seems to be the main argument from everyone complaining about the FATE system, but the claim that FATE grinding is the only viable option (time vs reward) relies on incorrect assumptions:

1. Experience is the only significant reward; story progression, exploration, item acquisition, and adventuring in general are of minimal value.
2. FATE participation is an exclusive and continuous activity that cannot be done in combination with any other form of leveling.

Clearly, neither of these are true, so I don't understand why people are taking such an extreme viewpoint.

And people would be more than happy to do other things if dungeon, leve and guildhest xp was boosted to the point that it was rewarding to do so. Leveling purely on those 3, however, would take months for a single character. It would be more lucrative to level multiple characters using quests and story quests, thus sleeping the entire multi-class system in the face.