Please increase Fate times for Dailies.

[Imoen]

Please decrease number of "daily" activities. I digress, carry on.

[Raist]

And while you are out trying to actively clear fates to spawn the one you want will pop while you are halfway across the map and the few people who just waited will clear it before you get back. Fun times.

May be an example of not understanding the system? FATES in those older zones are patterned by level brackets. If you want a level 48-ish fate, you want to clear those nearby fates that are in that level range and not the level 27-ish ones on the other side of the zone.

Been waiting for quenching the flame for 20+ min >.>

Edit: Been over 30 min. Still waiting.

Bolded the problem. The area needs to become more active to get them spawning faster. It was "working as intended".

[Derceto]

How are FATEs not dynamically adjusted by people in the immediate area by now? This is something GW2 did at it's launch, like.... 3 years ago. Instead you end up with FATEs that are hit and miss depending how many people have pounded it into oblivion in the last hour or something. Enter a barren zone, start a FATE and discover the mobs are like gods because it's gauged for 50 people still. Wow.

[Nerisu]

It'd be nice if the spawn times are similar to the event FATEs like the current FFXI ones.

[ElHeggunte]

May be an example of not understanding the system? FATES in those older zones are patterned by level brackets. If you want a level 48-ish fate, you want to clear those nearby fates that are in that level range and not the level 27-ish ones on the other side of the zone.

He's not wrong though. You're severely underestimating how quickly these FATEs can be cleared, especially if there's more than one person doing them. I can easily clear the FATE Quenching the Flame by myself as my Monk in less time than it takes to run from the entrance of Zanr'ak (where some of the 45-49 bracket FATEs spawn) all the way to the very back of Zahar'ak where the FATE in question is located. So it's in fact quite easy to miss out on the FATE you were waiting for while you were dicking around in an attempt to get it to spawn in the first place even if you're within the general area of the 45-49 FATEs.

[Kewitt]

Nothing option would somehow make the fate spawn able.

[BreathlessTao]

I'm willing to bet that these FATEs are on the same "non-special" timer they claimed the ones needed for the relic books were, you know, the ones they said they can do nothing about, and only advised to complete other FATEs in the zone. Yeah, no special at all, yet they somehow all have noticeably much greater re-spawn times than practically any other one (same non-relevant FATE spawning five times by the time you see the one you need for the book, anyone?).........

[Raist]

He's not wrong though. You're severely underestimating how quickly these FATEs can be cleared, especially if there's more than one person doing them. I can easily clear the FATE Quenching the Flame by myself as my Monk in less time than it takes to run from the entrance of Zanr'ak (where some of the 45-49 bracket FATEs spawn) all the way to the very back of Zahar'ak where the FATE in question is located. So it's in fact quite easy to miss out on the FATE you were waiting for while you were dicking around in an attempt to get it to spawn in the first place even if you're within the general area of the 45-49 FATEs.

Guess that depends on the perspective I guess. If you are running that far out, then perhaps you need to change your strategy a bit. So, in that respect, one may be considered to be "doing it wrong", or at least not optimally.

There is often a bit of a delay between when the next fate in the rotation spawns. What I do is take one out, go back to the one I need, kill mobs around it while waiting for the next fate to respawn and if it isn't the one I want I go do another nearby one, rinse/repeat. Did it just last night in fact to spawn the Ochu NM in N. Shroud. Took me all of three cycles to get the one I needed to pop. Took me one fate to get Flame to pop--the archer that spawns out in front.

The trick is in gaining a better perspective of the caveats of the system and how to make it best work to your advantage. There is a system that has a pattern that you can put to work for you. Just sitting on your arse is about the worst thing you can do. At least move around and kill stuff in the area or something so the system is registering activity. You might be surprised how much it may improve your odds.