Feedback on FATEs

[koko-on-da-forumz]

You DO realize that even GW2 has flying now?

I do! Griffon is fun given how the world is built, Skyscale was a mistake and should not have been added. In both cases, they're extremely limited compared to what we get away with in FFXIV's flight. I didn't think that this forum in particular was the best place for this feedback, but there you go.

FFXI and Classic WoW are already there, no need to add more games to that particular segment.

You're right, other wildly successful games have this feature, I'm not sure why it was replaced with the equivalent of TV static. It's wild to me that people are so aggressively against this point. Would you rather mobs just be deleted from the open world entirely? Cuz that's about what we have now.

If you want challenging bosses to fight in the outdoors and you actually get to use your mounts and chocobo companions, then the solution is to make like Treasure Maps/FF11 where the party goes to the hunt location, use an item to spawn the monster, and only the players in the party that spawned the monster can hit the mob. There you go. Hard bosses for small groups set out in the open world.

I like these, but it also overlaps directly thematically with FFXIV's treasure maps (actually similar problems to FATEs), and I'm not sure that leaving feedback for a brand new system will be received as easily as relatively small tweaks to an existing system (that has already been tweaked in these ways in side content).

I am disappointed to see FATE boss music not being mentioned. Its been ten years and we're still hearing that boring and incredibly repetitive theme for HP sponges that might do an AoE if the year is right.

Problem: Boss FATE theme.

Solution: dungeon mini-boss theme, dungeon theme itself, dungeon final boss theme, literally anything else.

You're right and you should say it! Though I think it would need to be mixed up a little bit more than that, even. Listening to dungeon boss theme for an hour straight will get just as grating as the current one.

My suggestion would be to focus more on just boss FATEs and have them spawn with a greater regularity, and I am not talking about the normal boss FATEs, but the elite ones, e.g., Chi.

Regularity is also a concern, for sure. Regularly when my friend and I are bored, I'll check faloop to see if any S or special fate windows are up. No? Guess we'll just not do that today.