Zadnor fates need retuning.

[KageTokage]

I can't get gold even with Deep Martialist/ maxed DPS valor/Inner Release/tank stance-boosted Tomahawk spam despite being the first one to arrive, assuming the FATEs are at minimum scaling and there are several players around.

It seems like there's a fixed minimum contribution requirement for gold that does not change regardless of how scaled up/down a FATE is as I've gotten gold even from insanely tanky FATEs by showing up during the last 5% or so of the boss' HP and only getting off maybe four or five Tomahawks.

So yes, there is a definite issue with how these things are being scaled that no amount of "getting good" is going to actually overcome. Solutions would be to increase the detection radius for FATE scaling (I've noticed that the FATE scaling up north tends to reset to minimum whenever everyone goes to the Alkonost CE up there) and make the required contribution for gold scale based on how much HP the boss has.