For people who want to Nerf FATES

[DMCain]

I posted this in another thread about what I think needs to be done with FATEs

FATEs are cool and some are even fun. Right now though, I have 3 problems with FATEs:

1: Rewards
- XP awarded by FATEs is just too high and I think it should be cut by 50%, or at the very least give the same XP as a level appropriate quest. Example lvl 40 quest gives about 11k xp. lvl 40 FATE should give the same.
- Gil awarded by FATEs is too low and should be raised by a factor of 2 or 3.
- Seals are good, no need to change this part.

2: Class/Job ability: I've seen it time after time in dungeons. Mages AoE'ing everything, DPS hitting whatever they want, Tanks not holding aggro, healers just totally confused about what needs to be done. In most cases I've explained what to do and they listen and improve. Others, well, lets say I let them lay there dead if I was tanking or healing. MANY FATE chasers actually DO want to know how to use their characters, but FATEs provide an easy route to level and class abilities/knowledge kinda get left by the wayside.

3: FATE frequency: As it stands now, FATEs are spawning too quickly. Most of the time I can wait 3-5 minutes between FATEs. In some cases I've seen 3-4 FATEs up at one time. This should never happen. There should NEVER be more than 1 FATE up at a time and wait time between FATEs should be at least 15 minutes. If a 'Special' FATE (Odin, Behemoth, etc) is to spawn, it should take the place of one of the regular fates.

In this case, we can ignore point 2, as it doesn't apply to this thread. But my other 2 points still stand. If we were to bump ALL other XP sources, people would still prefer fates over the other forms of leveling. Mainly because they can just grab a party and follow the zerg for easy XP.

FATEs have totally ruined MY gaming experience. I much prefer instances for my primary XP gain, but with FATEs, the duty finder is very empty. Recently, I have waited as long as 2 hours in queue as a WHM before giving up and logging out. And on DPS, my wait has been upwards of 2-3 hours, and often as high as 6 (on weekends). Now I know to find a LS or FC of like minded people, but they just aren't there. I stared a LS to gather folks up for instance runs and started a FC for people that prefer to run like I do. In both cases, all I have are the original 4 people that started them with me and NO one has replied to the recruitment thread or in game shouts.

It's all about easy mode. IMO, FATEs are the bane of this game and will totally ruin it in the long run.