I also had hours of frustration on this.
It is really not possible to fate properly since most of the time really NOTHING of the fate is visible. No mobs, no players I'm only standing there completely alone.
This is really frustrating since fating is the only good possibility to level up.
I'm now at lvl46 and need to get lvl49 to continue the story quest and now I realy lose the ambition to play on since I don't know how to get three levels up without fating.