2.2 has sucked all the fun out of the game...

[Ooshima]

If your FATE doesn't pop then you can queue for the dungeon part or go hunt the mobs or do the leves or farm more myth for the next book unless the last thing you need is a FATE that takes 3 hours to pop. It's designed to be a time consuming quest at its finest and that's fine, the real bad decision was gating it behind an entirely RNG based grind that might have sounded good in the planning stages but ended up screwing a big chunk of the playerbase.

What I felt that SE could at least do is make separate FATEs for the books and make it a fixed time event. like 0000hrs, 0300hrs, 0600hrs, 0900hrs so on and so forth that the FATE would pop.

AT LEAST we know when it would pop and we can actually do something else. Heck, even if SE wants to make it every 6 or 8hrs by all means but at least it is fixed, I know the time it will appear and I can enjoy or "enjoy" the other contents of 2.2. I could farm a second set of Atma or whatever as long as I don't need to stand on the same spot like an idiot waiting for that damn FATE.

[Roris]

What I felt that SE could at least do is make separate FATEs for the books and make it a fixed time event. like 0000hrs, 0300hrs, 0600hrs, 0900hrs so on and so forth that the FATE would pop.

AT LEAST we know when it would pop and we can actually do something else. Heck, even if SE wants to make it every 6 or 8hrs by all means but at least it is fixed, I know the time it will appear and I can enjoy or "enjoy" the other contents of 2.2. I could farm a second set of Atma or whatever as long as I don't need to stand on the same spot like an idiot waiting for that damn FATE.

I agree, it'd be nice if the book FATEs had at least a set time to spawn. Feels really contradicting with the direction the game is finally taking that makes it so there's always something to do when some parts of the quest have a lot of downtime, like I said you could do other parts of the book before but when you're finally at the FATE part you still have to wait for them, which can anywhere from instantly to 2+ hours and you really can't do anything else or you might miss the tiny spawn window, except maybe summon your Chocobo and level it on other FATEs I guess. So yeah, a good solution would be set spawn times.

[Ooshima]

I agree, it'd be nice if the book FATEs had at least a set time to spawn. Feels really contradicting with the direction the game is finally taking that makes it so there's always something to do when some parts of the quest have a lot of downtime, like I said you could do other parts of the book before but when you're finally at the FATE part you still have to wait for them, which can anywhere from instantly to 2+ hours and you really can't do anything else or you might miss the tiny spawn window, except maybe summon your Chocobo and level it on other FATEs I guess. So yeah, a good solution would be set spawn times.

Yup, I believe in other MMOs there are often overworld bosses that also spawns on set times. Heck some even will have a count down timer.

Since Yoshida wants us to grind in 2.2, seriously standing on the same place doing nothing, can't run too far from the FATE location isn't grinding. Give me a spawn time and meanwhile I can grind other things you want me to grind...