DD Nerfed

[NovaLevossida]

The grind in this game for additional jobs is just unbearably bad with how the quests aren't reactivated. What we end up with is having to FATE grind over and over and over with some dungeons mixed in if you want, for less exp. The pacing was slow enough already with DD, and now that has been reduced as well. I can't see myself ever leveling a third job up since the boring, monotonous, braindead, and slow process of leveling just got even slower in the last levels where the exp needed per level was the highest.

[Sove92]

It may have worked as intended, but considering how much people got harassed for killing the target mobs, SE had to do something about it.

[Delnoir]

Just because something is working as intended doesn't mean that Square Enix can't go "You know, this DD stuff is kinda bullshit" and nerf it.

[AridElf]

"Free ride", logging into the game is basically a free ride to 50. Doing any fate in the world and leveling off fates is a free ride, how is nerfing one single fate going to change anything?

It's not.

They should've hotfixed in a 400% leve and 600% dungeon + hunting log exp boost as well. That is dev time well spent, not nerfing something that can be done in hundreds of fate all over the world.

DD was by far the biggest abused fate because of the spawn rate and the exp per kill. I took my girlfriend through Northern Thanalan for her hunting logs and there were at least 50 people sitting where DD spawns waiting for it. They were still there 2 hours later as we passed by to leave the zone.

Leves are fine and dungeons are getting changed in the future, not like the fate farmers even do dungeons anyway.

Nerfing DD was a step in the right direction if you ask me, I'm very optimistic for future changes.

[Yosho]

No more FATE drama.

[Appleh4x]

DD was by far the biggest abused fate because of the spawn rate and the exp per kill. I took my girlfriend through Northern Thanalan for her hunting logs and there were at least 50 people sitting where DD spawns waiting for it. They were still there 2 hours later as we passed by to leave the zone...

Nerfing DD was a step in the right direction if you ask me, I'm very optimistic for future changes.

I call BS, or you just ran into a gathering of bots. For the last few weeks materia has been my main source of income, and I regularly partied up for DD. It is rare to see more than a handful of people waiting for it to pop, and they only go there after it's been at least 30 mins since the last pop. You said you've only done it once, and you griefed by killing the lambs so I already can tell that your eyes may have been playing tricks on you so you can "see what you want to see" regarding the fate.

[Cycloptichorn]

Excellent, this is EXACTLY what many of us were asking to happen, to this obvious exploit.

[RyujinUzikin]

It was gonna happen anyway, I got from 47 to 50 in a heart beat. It was way OP, too good to stay around forever.

[Ralemont]

and you griefed by killing the lambs so I already can tell that your eyes may have been playing tricks on you so you can "see what you want to see" regarding the fate.

That completing the objective is considered "griefing" illustrates why this change is welcome.

And to those saying the grind was slow enough already even with DD: are you serious? Because you can't be.

[Appleh4x]

That completing the objective is considered "griefing" illustrates why this change is welcome.

And to those saying the grind was slow enough already even with DD: are you serious? Because you can't be.

It is griefing when it is apparently obvious as to what you should be doing as per all the other people at the fate. I've never seen anyone cussed out for mistakenly killing a lamb, the few times I have been there while lambs were attacked people just shouted "please don't kill lambs, farm trash for xp," or rarely it was just someone griefing to get a rise. If someone is griefing, I, and many others just blist them and move on.