Dark Devices is dead.

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Note: This is mainly for my server (Phoenix). May or may not apply to your server.

While Dark Devices did give a lot of exp and the exp was very nice it did allow for quick leveling, in fact 42 - 50 took almost 9 hours. But that wasn't because of that FATE, the whole amounts of FATEs in Northern Thanalan spawn rapidly and give around 22k exp, plus each mob in the FATE gave you almost 1k exp.

However I saw it pop 4 - 5 times today while I was leveling my Scholar. Oddly enough no one was there, 4 minutes went by and 2 people came, and began to do the FATE. Even then those two people safe spotted the mobs. The chain finished and only 5 people showed up. When no FATEs where up I saw around 12 people in the area. This may or may not be because of the time it being an EU server and I'm Australian most English people are asleep.

The main I'm trying to make is that one FATE got a lot of people together and it came like a mini raid, people communicated IE "Don't kill lambs!" but people listened and most people didn't do it. The only thing I don't miss is the constant abuse that followed with that FATE. The FATE caused hate and abuse but when you removed it you killed an entire area. No one is in this area now, much like Mor Dhona it's dead; People may be in dungeons but theirs no way in hell I'm doing dungeons on my DPS characters.
In all my time I have never seen Go, Go, Gorgimera not be completed.


I only want to play with others Square-Enix, making parties and tackling FATEs allowed for some great friendships to start, is the start of a trend? all high level areas are becoming dead. First it was Mor Dhona, now it's Northern Thanalan. What's next? Coerthas?

Please, I want to make a party and tackle FATEs! Dungeons queue timer is far to long.
The con's of nerfing this FATE are greater than the pro's.

[Alyko]

Some people are so selfish they think their entitlement to 250 seals trumps that of the 199 other people trying to level just a little bit faster. Or they think they're the self appointed judge of what's an exploit and what isn't, so therefore no one should have experience. Stupid, really.

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Some people are so selfish they think their entitlement to 250 seals trumps that of the 199 other people trying to level just a little bit faster. Or they think they're the self appointed judge of what's an exploit and what isn't, so therefore no one should have experience. Stupid, really.

Lol what? People are acting "entitled" because they are completing FATEs (in the obviously intended way, since it got nerfed)?

Thanks a lot. Your post literally just gave me cancer.

[Kalandros]

Some people are so selfish they think their entitlement to 250 seals trumps that of the 199 other people trying to level just a little bit faster. Or they think they're the self appointed judge of what's an exploit and what isn't, so therefore no one should have experience. Stupid, really.

Its the opposite. Annoying people thinking they are entitled to the full duration of the FATE to grind the waves of mobs and making sure everyone knew exactly who was killing lambs ahead of time.

Shame on all those annoyances and good riddance with this fix!

[AridElf]

Some people are so selfish they think their entitlement to 250 seals trumps that of the 199 other people trying to level just a little bit faster. Or they think they're the self appointed judge of what's an exploit and what isn't, so therefore no one should have experience. Stupid, really.

People with attitudes like yours are the reason it needed to be changed. Good riddance to it.

[Amyas]

Some people are so selfish they think their entitlement to 250 seals trumps that of the 199 other people trying to level just a little bit faster. Or they think they're the self appointed judge of what's an exploit and what isn't, so therefore no one should have experience. Stupid, really.

Uhhh... you do realize the devs are the ones that decided to fix it? lol.

[Kewhi]

Some people are so selfish they think their entitlement to 250 seals trumps that of the 199 other people trying to level just a little bit faster. Or they think they're the self appointed judge of what's an exploit and what isn't, so therefore no one should have experience. Stupid, really.

Um.. are you aware that the developers of this game fixed the FATE because it was being exploited to achieve faster than normal XP gains? Clearly the developers disagree with you on what is and is not an exploit. And as a side point, doesn't your defensive attitude and harsh generalizations sort of make you a "self appointed judge" of what is an exploit?

Pot, meet kettle.

[Alyko]

Um.. are you aware that the developers of this game fixed the FATE because it was being exploited to achieve faster than normal XP gains? Clearly the developers disagree with you on what is and is not an exploit. And as a side point, doesn't your defensive attitude and harsh generalizations sort of make you a "self appointed judge" of what is an exploit?

Pot, meet kettle.

Not exactly. There were mixed messages on this.

Hello,

Since there seems to be a lot of questions and concerns as to whether this is an exploit, I wanted to clarify that the way this FATE functions as well as others similar to it are working as intended and it is not an exploit.

So at first they said it wasn't an exploit, but they nerfed it anyways. Good game devs.

[makii]

So at first they said it wasn't an exploit, but they nerfed it anyways. Good game devs.

Yes, now you will actually have to do other FATEs to rush to 50.

[Tsukino]

I really don't think this is just because people can't get half a level in 20 minutes anymore.

It's because everyone has already leveled the 2-3 jobs they wanted to 50 and there's no longer any point to doing FATEs all day long. The game was made so everyone could blow through all the non-endgame content within a month, now everyone has and so that content is a ghost town.