Leaving a FATE early

[Sapphic]

First they would need to fix the many scenarios where the mobs actually spawn outside of the fate area. I'll agree reseting all progress if you venture too far away would work.

But if you're at the other side of the map when the FATE finishes, win or lose. Then you should lose all contribution. As was in Coerthas, saw a couple of people doing one of the smaller boss fates, 1 tank and a dps, so I joined in on my PLD. at around 45-50% HP, I got aggro, other tank TPd away to dragonkeep knowing he had already got gold.

So yes, go past a point of distance from the fate and lose all contribution so you gain zero. Twice the diameter of the Fate is highly reasonable to cover bleed over with mobs.

[KimTaeyeon]

Implementing "Being too far from fate area won't give u the exp, except when u died" will solve the problem

[Wafflebob]

I don't agree with no rewards for failures. As a late night player there are many fates I participate in that we just do not have the numbers to win. I'd prefer a system where if you are out of a certain range of a fate you do not get any reward. That way the people who bail early get nothing but the people who hang on in an attempt to finish it still get their rewards for trying.

[Kaloran]

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning had a system (not sure if they still do) that would deny rewards to folks who were too far away from the battle when it finished. It was awful. I'd spend 45 minutes assaulting a keep, wind up dying while fighting the "boss," and it would end while I was running back from the friendly camp. No reward despite full participation, as if it was my fault that I didn't get healed.

Implementing a similar system for FATEs would just be ridiculous given the lack of overall team support during FATEs (another problem with the system).

[Karnyboy]

I saw that recently too, when I called someone out on it they wondered if I had a problem with them doing that...they flat out asked me...so I flat out told them, I don't have a problem with you leaving a fate, I do, however, have a problem pulling your weight and doing your work for you.

It's a terrible self entitled greedy gamer play style I see all too much these days.

[Karnyboy]

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning had a system (not sure if they still do) that would deny rewards to folks who were too far away from the battle when it finished. It was awful. I'd spend 45 minutes assaulting a keep, wind up dying while fighting the "boss," and it would end while I was running back from the friendly camp. No reward despite full participation, as if it was my fault that I didn't get healed.

Implementing a similar system for FATEs would just be ridiculous given the lack of overall team support during FATEs (another problem with the system).

Just cut the reward 50%, if you're only put in half the effort, then you should only get half the reward.

[xlolololx]

there is also another thing that need to be fixed at FATE.

The situation is,

A small group of people is killing the Svara, we all doing good until the Svara reach 20% HP. There might be only 1 tank in the group and his aggro too high. He walked away from the FATE ring, and the Svara followed him too. After the Svara walked out from the ring, it walked back to it spawn site and the HP reset. That's so sick, and the time run very low.

[Pinkie_Pie]

I don't agree with no rewards for failures. As a late night player there are many fates I participate in that we just do not have the numbers to win. I'd prefer a system where if you are out of a certain range of a fate you do not get any reward. That way the people who bail early get nothing but the people who hang on in an attempt to finish it still get their rewards for trying.

I agree with this guy, so many fates I have failed due to not enough people being there, fates got buffed by how many people on it so if too many show up, the mobs got too much HP for small number of people. People have accepted that if they going to fail might as well get to the other fates before timers run out to maximize the xp. I like how fates were before the patch, it was fast to finish them but now they take forever. bird boss roc next to the keep, it took only 2 minutes to kill that boss with a 2 man group, now takes 3-4 minutes, maybe even 5 if too many show up

[Worm]

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning had a system (not sure if they still do) that would deny rewards to folks who were too far away from the battle when it finished. It was awful. I'd spend 45 minutes assaulting a keep, wind up dying while fighting the "boss," and it would end while I was running back from the friendly camp. No reward despite full participation, as if it was my fault that I didn't get healed.

Implementing a similar system for FATEs would just be ridiculous given the lack of overall team support during FATEs (another problem with the system).

I played WAR as well, and it wasn't that good of a way to handle it. I'm sure you'd just see more corpses on the ground waiting for a battle rez than people who want to reset their progress. I almost feel like everyone wants to over engineer a solution to a problem which might not be too common. I certainly think the system can be improved but I don't think we should cut off our nose to spite our face.

[Katchii]

I don't think it's really an issue considering everyone has the same options as everyone else. If you choose to stay after everyone else has left and you have no chance of winning while everyone else goes and does another FATE...that's your choice.

I do think leaving before it's finished sucks, but people should be able to choose how they spend their time earning their xp, and if that means bailing in the middle of a FATE to go work on another one, so be it. Not sure there's a fix that wouldn't just cause more problems, besides, I'd rather have SE spend their time working on other things that actually affect gameplay than try and fix this issue that really isn't hurting anyone.