Please Remove the Odin/Behemoth FATEs From the Game

[Anapingofness]

So while I did post earlier to this thread... I'm here to offer a solution.

Instead of removing Odin altogether, why can't SE make him roam all over The Black Shroud. That way, his spawn point is random and you won't have large amounts of people just sitting in one place.
Another thing that will help with the situation in Quarrymill is if SE made Buscarron's Druthers a sanctuary and gave it the same level range leves as in Quarrymill.
It would also help if SE gave each nation their own level 20-25 leves that way the whole server isn't being bottle-necked into Quarrymill when they hit those levels.

As for Behemoth, since he has his own pad I think it would be harder to move him around but what can be done to alleviate some pressure from Camp Dragonhead is to make Whitebrim and the Observatorium into sanctuaries with their own leves.

This is something that can be done for all of the small villages that way the Aetherite camps aren't overcrowded. There is no need to add more Aetherites to the game since there are plenty of chocobo porters as well as mounts for people to make use of.

[Ryios]

I've never seen an issue with them crashing the server. Killed odin friday night and to my amazement I could see him for the entire encounter despite the 200+ people there, so I think they changed something.

[Kuraikoto]

http://xivdb.com/?search/Steel-Reign ; http://www.ign.com/wikis/final-fantasy-xiv/Steel_Reign

He isn't in just one location. I've only seen him in South and Central personally. Anyways, last night Hyperion crashed because of this Fate. The whole server, not just South Shroud. I heard some other servers had issues logging on or updating NA/EU list and this occured after Hyperion crashed and tried to get back in. We were even hit with 1016's again and getting kicked out of login queue. It is quite lovely that some, and probably most, servers can do Odin.

However, Hyperion is fucked right now. If it doesn't pop at an obscure hour, it is near impossible since the server can't support the population showing up for this Fate. They need to fix the Fate and it'd be nice if they did something to compensate the subscribers wasting their time on it... and those poor saps who weren't even trying getting booted from the game randomly. So until they allow transfers.... the "I did it on x" anecdotal crap is really not helping with the problem.

[Sebyos]

Agreed. Those Fates suck and they are a shame to SE.

They suck because the server doesn't render properly and because the mechanics are dumb.

They are a shame because they show that SE didn't learn from other games with similar systems by properly scaling and coding them.

It also removes two cool Primals from the 8 men party content where they would have been amazing.

[Hiraki]

I would like if they make them like the primal fights but 24 man, really tough and you get 1 mantle/horn per fight 100% if you win. I have two mantles but I just gave up because realistically the items I can get from it aren't worth me staying up until 3-5am EST just to get a bronze because the server shit itself and half of my attacks didn't actually register. Those FATEs are hell on BLM.

[Anapingofness]

He isn't in just one location. I've only seen him in South and Central personally.

o-o; I wasn't aware that he spawned in multiple areas since I've only had the pleasure to seeing this guy pop in South Shroud. Never up close and personal, mind you because if I did get near him I'd crash before I'd die, that is assuming the server doesn't go down first...

I guess this is just one of those things where he's supposed to spawn in multiple places but mostly spawns in one or two places. D=

I think we're all in agreement though; SE needs to do something about this. >_<

[Sterob]

on the contract, they should have more open world bosses, harder bosses surrounded by a high agro range mob that have attk range like ak mobs.

[Chokee]

maybe when the fate pops, there would just be an NPC with fate icon on its head that would take a party of 8 to a duty that is similar to chimera/hydra fight. and that npc would be there for ~20mins or so.

maybe just temporary until they can improve the fate to not crash the entire world.

[JPPILIP]

Agreed put it in an instance

[peaches]

100% agree it needs to be made an instance. Even on PC, Behemoth and Odin aren't visible 90% of the time unless you're standing directly on top of them, which you do NOT want to be doing in those FATEs. And it's only worse on PS3.