While I am sad it got nerfed, it still gives out a lot of exp. It's 4 fates back to back.... That's like 60-80k exp in < 10 minutes making it the best fate chain in the game, nerfed or not.

And actually I would argue that farming DD was slower than fate changing. When farming DD you drag it out an extra 15 minutes and 2 fates spawn in that window. Where as if you had finished it and moved on to GBoss and the other fates up and downed them all it would have been more experience overall.

Secondly, people can Farm Mobs without DD, instead of sitting at the aetheryte waiting for a fate to pop, take your PT and walk 50 feet that way and kill mobs for the same amount of EXP or more.