Quote Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor View Post

What is the point of fates?
What is the point of leves?
You can still do FATEs and Leves... but they were never intended to be the primary form of leveling. Even when ARR first came out, Yoshi-P was surprised by the fact that people were skipping doing dungeons and actual content and just using FATEs to level because it was faster. So he changed it so that Dungeons give better XP. The issue is that you have to either make your own party or queue for dungeons, which can take time.

So now, FATEs and Leves are intended to be what you do in the time you're waiting for a queue or looking for party members. They give less XP than dungeons, but are not useless. And once you get your first character to 60 through the MSQ, you'll get the 50% armory bonus for 50-60, which will make FATEs and Leves give more XP.