Please stop putting holidays/events inside Fates

[Shiyo]

My cure for the whole FATE ordeal is to simply not do it when they first come out. Everyone and their granddad joins in on them and it's always a big mess.

I waited until the last possible day to do the Lightning FATEs and it was a pretty good deal at that point without the herd tagging along.

Not that this changes your decision or anything, I just felt the need to share, is all. Needless to say, FATEs are more enjoyable after everyone's had their fill.

I did all the lightning fates early in the morning with only 3 other people and they still weren't fun at all. Just spam my DPS rotation and sit in AOE's because the fights are too easy and pose zero challenge. The majority of your time spent doing fates standing around waiting gor them to pop then they end in 5 minutes. No actual fun to be had.

[Battlewrench]

+1 I loathe fates to an extent you can't imagine and wish SE would please stop using them.

[Shiyo]

I like that you used Tequatl as an example because it's literally just stand on his foot and spam aoe (every skill in that game just about).

I do, however, agree that events in FATEs could stand to be throttled back. One or two maybe but I'd like an actual quest chain.

They updated him and gave him crazy mechanics, this is no longer true.

[Orophin]

Back to the forums after a month of hibernation huh?

[Dannythm]

Step 1: Remove the FATE system
Step 2: Bring back the original FFXIV NM system, adding more challenging NMs along with what we had back them.
Step 3: Make the world mobs dangerous and interesting again.
Step 4: ????
Step 5: A better and happier player base = profit!

[AunaYuuki]

Its a Christmas event chill out I don't mind if its fates. I DO mind that the CT quests for new content are fates. Everyone was so excited to hop into new dungeons and content but they ended up waiting 8 hours to finish the quest.

[Xatsh]

There are so few people who like the FATE system anywhere you ask... I just cannot understand why they keep pushing fates so much.

They are just horrible content. In every game that has ever had them. And that is not the opinion of the minority.

Seasonal events should never FATE related. Hell look at XI or WoW, the season events in those games are 20fold better then XIV. Minigames, quest lines, and so on. This fate garbage is as bad as Ring the bell for every season event at the launch of 1.0.

[Blaize]

This fate garbage is as bad as Ring the bell for every season event at the launch of 1.0.

THIS!!!

/10char

[amnie]

looking at this year's 'life day' event in SWTOR I'm actually more postive that in the future ARR will have 'real' events and this is just part of the aftermath of having to work on a more or less new game on top of working at the old one still running (ffxiv 1.0)

to those not in the know: last year's life day 'event' was buying stuff from the cartel market. this year you can at least throw snowballs at people, which is arguably not much but still a .lot. more fun than doing a total of 3 fates to get enough ice for all the cosmetic stuff we don't have any slots in our inventory for, anyway :P

[Naberrie]

While waiting 90 minutes for a FATE to spawn last night I ended up making a ton of friends while chatting it up / waiting for it to pop. And this took me back and made me realize part of why I loved FFXI's HNM / NM system.

I had that last night as well. Waited 2 hours for a new FATE to pop for a quest and it reminded me of FFXI NM camping. Good times.